JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

As I am preparing for my talk on Making Masks: Blogging as Social Tool and Family Lifestyle at Northern Voice this weekend, I am also considering how to post pieces of my presentation. For the past two months I have made bookmarks in my del.icio.us page, posting links that were related to the topics I […]

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David Weinberger appreciates the insight and wisdom Lisa Williams shares and so do I. In recent weeks, I’ve felt disillusioned with blogging, frustrated by its limitations and awkwardness, by my inability to be who I am on my blog. I have felt I am being inauthentic, false, living a dual life. However, especially after the […]

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Yesterday as I was walking in the morning, a robin flew over me. For an instant I glimpsed red, the rest of the bird’s body pulled together tight in a smooth aerodynamic shape. It was as if the robin was in slow motion or if my eyes had become a camera with a slick shutter […]

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Yes, it’s evident that I have been distracted this week. But I have been thinking about blogging: I’ve spent my post-writing time working on my talk for the Northern Voice conference in Vancouver, B.C. tomorrow (exactly 24 hours from the time I am typing – but who’s counting?!) What do I plan to discuss? Making […]

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Sunday morning I read Robert Scoble’s link to Andrew Connell’s moblog celebrating the birth of his son. As Robert wrote: what’s a more important story than the birth of a new baby? Beautiful pictures. Next I read Amanda Witt’s link to Mariane Pearl’s piece in The Sunday Times describing life after the loss of her […]

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