Saturday, November 29, 2008
A Few Recently Bookmarked Links
The Top 60 Popular Japanese Words/Phrases of 2008. Provides an interesting snapshot of Japanese society this year. I was happy to find out that the garishly overdecorated cell phones my students have (#9) have a name ("Princess Phones"), and the video of the "Whispering Matron" from #50 is pretty amazing.
The Orality of Twitter. I've been trying to get my poor head around Twitter. This didn't actually help. But it was an interesting look at how the very mundanity of Twitter is a sign of our secondary-orality culture.
Wow! America is Cool. Garrison Keillor on the election, with his usual grace and understated wit.
The Blitz Line Starts Here. James Wolcott writes for Vanity Fair about the recent trampling to death of a Wal-Mart employee. "What you don't see in these Black Friday updates are interviews with the people who work in these mall chains, who have to show up at even more ungodly hours than do the shoppers in order to stock the shelves and prepare for the store openings." A vicious, incisive analysis.
The Orality of Twitter. I've been trying to get my poor head around Twitter. This didn't actually help. But it was an interesting look at how the very mundanity of Twitter is a sign of our secondary-orality culture.
Wow! America is Cool. Garrison Keillor on the election, with his usual grace and understated wit.
The Blitz Line Starts Here. James Wolcott writes for Vanity Fair about the recent trampling to death of a Wal-Mart employee. "What you don't see in these Black Friday updates are interviews with the people who work in these mall chains, who have to show up at even more ungodly hours than do the shoppers in order to stock the shelves and prepare for the store openings." A vicious, incisive analysis.
// posted by Jennifer @ 6:35 PM 
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