Quite the Menu

Below are links and descriptions of the individual blogs from this course. Read a blurb, read a blog, change your life!

1 Take: Movies and everything else.

Behind the Times: "An abomination in the sight of all that is holy. --Charles Darwin
"This blog gave me herpes." --Lenard Nimoy

But How Much Did You Lose? is the newest blog attempting to get in with the worst of it. This poker blog is a welcome break from the otherwise ultra-serious personal blogs of pro and semi-pro players. Burdamania is not afraid to admit his losing ways in everything, whether it be poker-related or just expensive first-dates, but adds a certain sappy charm to it all. There's nothing to lose by bookmarking this new frontier of comedic poker posts!

Floriated Swashbuckling: Interwebular Cranium Cruising on the road to Mottled Wit

From the Brilliant Mind of Mags: A look at pop culture and fashion through the lens of a twenty something female intertwined with life experiences and stories.

Here's Your Opinion: One guy's take on professional, collegiate and UMass sports. You might not have one yet, so Here's Your Opinion.

Fill Me With Meaning: The author of this blog is a senior English major. Her blog is a random collection of thoughts, writing, and other miscellanea.

That's What She Said is a personal blog that displays Ludakristi's life as a
graduating college senior. In it you'll find topics ranging from serious to
comical, recipes to personal statements, and more. You'll especially like it
if you're into cats and karaoke.

The Commentary is On. All fiction. All the time. Sometimes it's not about you.

The Five Hundred: A comprehensive guide to pretentious, foreign, and domestic films, French New Wave, youtube clips and self-deprication, updated weekly and guaranteed to make you visit wikipedia.com at least twice.

Seth Sibley is a senior English major and Classics minor, graduating in
May of 2007. Seth's blog, "UMassDarkside -- Konami Code Kid," is, as the
title suggests, all about video gaming. Seth's been playing video games
borderline-religiously since he was three. And without showing any signs
of stopping, he wanted to share his knowledge about gaming, along with
gaming news, with everyone in the Blogosphere. So what'll it be:
Continue, Save, or Quit?

It takes a village...?

How do blogs create or express community? Do we consider our identities as fixed prior to our entrance into the blogosphere? Or does our interaction there construct a new identity? Do we join blogging communities based upon previous interests, or discover new possibilities for community and interaction by exploring blogs? Are these communities “real”? Why or why not? What purposes do they serve for us or for others?