Feministing Linkspam #7

[sasha_feather]

Many thanks to kaz and were_duck as usual. Feel free to drop us links in comments.

Sparked by the "Ressentiment" post from Linkspam #5:

belledame22: [Title redacted on account of ableism] [note: post is attacking, not defending, the attitudes expressed in the title]

Kristen: The Resentment of Ressentiment or Entitlement in the Extreme

About FWD/Forward

Note: As you might guess from the title, most of these are just linkages/"this is really awesome!"s

Adventures of a Young Feminist: Tuesday Link Love

Cara: New blog by feminists with disabilities

Chally: I roam the internet claiming my places

Foxtrot: Quick Hit: FWD/Forward

Heather: New Feminist Disability Blog launched

Illegal Jesus: I bring you links and not much else

kaninchenzero [Disability] Out of Sight

lauredhel: FWD: Feminists With Disabilities is GO!

Melissa McEwan: Monday Blogaround

Ouyang Dan: Psst... pass it on!

pharaoh_katt Today in "I hate the world sometimes"

sanguinity: (no subject)

SarahMC at Pursuit of Harpyness: Rad New Blog Alert

sophy New Website addressing the intersection of Feminism and Disability

Tera: New blog of awesomeness

were_duck: FWD FTW!

The, er, original discussion:

FWD: Ableist Word Profile: What's Your Damage?
FWD: Ablesit Word Profile: Retarded

hokuton_punch (no subject)

Meloukhia: Putting some money where my words are

Shut Up, Sit Down:
Cosigning

stoneself (no subject)


Other links of interest: (because we're really into this)

Eli Claire: Thinking about the word crip

Womanist Musings: Negotiating Disableism

FWD: Telegram to TABs, On Spoon Theory
Crossposted at Hoyden About Town: Telegram to TABs, On Spoon Theory

FWD: What We Talk About When We Talk About Language

ETA: One link removed at request of OP

Comments

[cesy]

Thanks for continuing to do these.

[susanna]

I want to ask you to remove my entry from your list. (I am senior_witch at LJ. If you have a look at my entry, you will discover that I don't contribute to the discussion but have decided that I will rather gain my information on political and social matters from books and journals. I don't think that your linklist is the correct place for it, except if you want to discuss the war in Afghanistan (which is what the rest of the entry is about.)

[sasha_feather]

Your link has been removed, thank you.

[elf]

Thank you for collecting & sorting these; I know how much work it is. (And how much fun. But there's a lot of persnickety annoying work crammed into the fun.)

most of these are just linkages/"this is really awesome!"s

When I was doing linkspam roundups, I tagged those "signalboost" on my notes document. (And rarely included them in roundups, but that's a matter of choice & community focus. It's nice to know how many people are interested even if they're not directly saying much.)

[sasha_feather]

Thanks for your input! Good to talk about it with someone else who has done it. We originally decided to include signal boosts because you never know what kind of discussions will show up in comments-- sometimes comments are where the there real action is after all. But it occurs to me now that this doesn't apply to comment-disabled cross-posts, some of which have been included above.

[kaz]

We discussed that and came to the conclusion that we couldn't know whether a signalboost post might start generating interesting discussion in the comments; I am still somewhat worried because we have so many signalboosts that they drown out the actual discussion. (OTOH, if we left out signalboosts we would be left with very little. :()

Also, as someone with experience with linkspam, do you have any particular tips and tricks to recommend? :( Mainly it seems like I'm just searching Icerocket for any combination of keywords that seems reasonable (which has resulted in some interesting experiences such as reading through all the recent blogposts including the word "disability"), but I know Icerocket doesn't pick up everything and I'm worried I'm missing huge swathes of conversation off somewhere.

[elf]

Google blogsearch is also useful. Not nearly as good as Icerocket--but it gets some stuff that IR misses. So does a standard Google search, once in a while.

Any phrase that pops up in several posts is worth searching for. Also, names of big-name bloggers + keyword helped sometimes. Deciding on a #fail tag early in a round of discussions helps tremendously, but isn't always feasible. (Tag should be unique to the event; "disabilityfail" is a bad idea. "Femdisfail" would've been possible, but sounds ridiculous, and I doubt it would've caught on.)

Nothing will consistently turn up posts on LJ that aren't searchable by Google. However, if you know the usernames of LJers who are outspoken on the topic, or just some of the controversial and heavily-linked or much-commented posts--visit their friendspages, and scroll through, looking for other people's reaction.

This is much, much more time-consuming than search engines. (And distracting. Reading strangers' f'pages is a fascinating game of its own.) But it'll turn up posts that you'd otherwise never find.

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With signalboosts, if they had a good discussion going, I included them as standard posts. If I had time/awareness, I'd tag them as "signalboost w/discussion," but working alone, I often didn't bother.

If I were including other signalboosts, I'd probably separate them out, and leave them single-spaced so's not to overwhelm the other posts. (I considered posting them as bare links, rather than username + title-with-link, just to make it very obvious that they were different.)

[elf]

One more note--when posts were crossposted, I didn't include the LJ/IJ version if it didn't allow comments. I would include posts with comments locked, but not if they were duplicated elsewhere that allowed comments. (Haven't read enough of this set to know if you're doing that, and you may or may not want to follow that pattern. But noting that comments are blocked is generally useful.)