Ultimate Blogs - Masterworks From the Wild Web

Zusatztext 77573560 Informationen zum Autor Sarah Boxer , formerly a critic and reporter at The New York Times , is the author and illustrator of the cartoon novel "In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary." She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son. Klappentext "What are you working on?” "An anthology of blogs.” "I didn't know you had a blog.” "I don't. It's an anthology of other people's blogs.” "How do you find good blogs?” "I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like.” "Is a good blog hard to find?” "Yes. Very.” A Book of Blogs? WTF!! Sarah Boxer! a former New York Times reporter and critic! travels through the blogosphere (more than 80 million blogs — and counting) and finds some masterpieces along the way. Among the bloggers in the anthology are: two fashion critics mocking the inexplicable "fugliness” of celebrities a Marine Corps lieutenant stationed in Fallujah in 2006 a 19-year old student in Singapore cheerfully pining for her ex an illustrator's tiny saga of a rodent and his ball of crap Odysseus's sidekick telling his side of the Iliad and Odyssey Revealing and deceptive! grand and niggling! worldly and parochial! these blogs comprise a snapshot of life on the wild! wild Web. ANGRYBLACKBITCH http://angryblackbitch.blogspot.com FRIDAY, DECEMBER 02, 2005 King Kong . . . A bitch is ready for the weekend! This bitch woke up today in frenzy. My ass has been invited to attend a ritzy event and, of course, waiting until the very last minute to decide what to wear! Shit! Somewhere between drama and meltdown a bitch remembered why my ass is usually anti-social. 2 cups coffee with Splenda and organic milk, followed by 1 Claritin,  2 pseudo Sudafed and cigs . . . As a bitch jumped through the morning television in a desperate attempt to avoid multiple viewings of the Oprah/Letterman reconciliation (give a bitch a break, people) something caught my eye. Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame has remade King Kong. Immediately, a bitch got pissed. Why ABB Hates the King Kong Story . . . A bitch has no hatred for Peter Jackson or his team of amazing folks. What this bitch hates . . . fucking cannot stand and thinks should be relegated to the same dark, murky hole in Hades that hopefully holds the entire body of black-face entertainment is the story. King Kong, which was made famous as a 1930s film, is the story of a white, very white . . . extremely white and Aryan the way Ann Coulter wishes she was Aryan . . . woman who somehow ends up on a tropical, very tropical, WILD and untamed island populated by . . . NATIVES! Yep, natives who become entranced with this Aryan representation of civilized female beauty even though they have never set eyes on a white woman. Depending on the version, they either have always worshiped white women or simply begin to worship them once they set eyes on the blond bombshell that plops down on their island. Now, they have a secret. A big fucking secret! There is a giant highly sexualized primate lurking on the island! Oh no! Jesus, why would a loving Gawd ever create such a beast? In the words of Wolf Blitzer . . . he’s so black! In order to pacify said giant black primate, the natives offer up sacrificial women. The giant primate then takes the women and leaves the natives alone for a while. ’Cause . . . well, you know . . . he’s getting his freak on. And everyone knows that giant sexualized primates are soothed and calmed by the company of a terrified nubile woman. Even though the regular offering of native women has pacified the giant primate, the natives know that this stunning white woman will put his ass over the top. Shit, they started coveting her right from the start! No way...

List of contents

INTRODUCTION

AngryBlackBitch, Pamela Merritt

Becker-Posner Blog, Gary S. Becker and Richard Posner

Click Opera, Nick Currie

Cosmic Variance, Sean Carroll

El Guapo in DC, author known as El Guapo

Eurotrash, Delly Hayward

Get Your War On, David Rees

Go Fug Yourself, Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks

How to Learn Swedish in 1000 Difficult Lessons, author known as Francis Strand

I Blame The Patriarchy, Jill Posey-Smith

In The Middle, Raed Jarrar

Ironic Sans, David Friedman

Its raining noodles!, Angelique Chan

Johnny i hardly knew you, Jennie Portnof

Julia {Here Be Hippogriffs}, Julia Litton

Language Log, Benjamin Zimmer

Matthew Yglesias, Matthew Yglesias

Micrographica, Renée French

Midnight in Iraq, Jeffrey Barnett

Nina Paley.com, Nina Paley

Old Hag, Lizzie Skurnick

Radio.Uruguay, Dmitri Goutnik

Rootless Cosmopolitan, Tony Karon

The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross

The Smoking Gun, William Bastone

Under Odysseus, Mark Katakowski

HOW TO FIND BLOGS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Report

Winning. . . Bold. . . . Provides a rousing awareness that many people, in many places, are thinking, feeling, and eager to connect.
The New Republic

Aptly eclectic. . . . Ultimate Blogs does exactly what it s supposed to do.
The New York Times Book Review

Eclectic anthology of superb writing.
Chicago Tribune

Turning a book nerd into a blog fiend can prove to be as difficult a transition as turning a blogger into an author. But that doesn t mean it s impossible quite the opposite, particularly given the overall curatorial tone Boxer displays here. Celebrated on paper and ink, protected from the snark, the fawning, the bitchiness, the link whoring, and the exhausting self-referential attacks, the Internet in Ultimate Blogs is cherished in a wide-eyed, doting manner that even the most popular bloggers don t seem to enjoy very much anymore.
The Boston Phoenix

Most of Boxer s selections don t read like a new species of writing, but like very close cousins of once-venerable print genres that have been forced out of public discourse by the shrinkage of major American media: passionate arts criticism, critical theory, colorful polemics, and, above all, the personal essay.
New York Magazine

A provocative introduction to the art form.
Baltimore Sun

One way to find blogs worth reading . . . . [A] Norton Anthology of Blogging.
The New York Times

Here you'll find excerpts from 27 online journals-comprising punditry, poetry, ranting, raving and drawing of both pictures and conclusions. You'll also find some wonderful writing; you'll laugh, cry and scratch your head. . . .Boxer has gone out of her way to seek out content that can make the leap from one medium to another.
Newsweek

[Ultimate Blogs] serves as a gateway to some true Web gems.
Rocky Mountain News

. . . the real utility of Ultimate Blogs might be as a relic of an odd, fleeting cultural moment when unfettered online self-expression was still new enough to seem worth documenting but was actually old enough to be decadent.
New York Observer

Boxer brings a generalist's curiosity to her task, finding engaging writing on classical music, miscarriage, Iraq and more. . .The common thread is the excellent (and personal and sometimes edgy) writing.
Los Angeles Times

Boxer displays tastes so broad as to accommodate ingratiating cranks and cunning charmers alike, and she hurdles what would seem to be the chief problem of assembling such a book the likelihood of its emerging as fresh as Best American Weather Reports 2007 by seizing upon posts with a literary bent and respectable half-life.
Slate Magazine

Sarah Boxer, ex of The New York Times, culls mightily from the Amazons, Niles and Mississippis of blog flow. Her journey begins as a blog neophyte, and ends in her Top 25 blog choices. Many of the destinations are funny and fascinating, not to mention attractive in their intentions.
Paste Magazine

. . [Sarah Boxer s} journey into the unruly realm of blogging is a journey of self-discovery.
Houston Chronicle

Sarah Boxer, who has assembled a little print anthology of blog "writing." Which means that her task is two-fold, actually: explaining blogs to old people and justifying collecting them into a book to herself. How does she fare? Hilariously!
Gawker

Much of the writing contained in the book is well worth browsing for even the most hardened Web aficionado . . . Benjamin Zimmer's Language Log reads like a wonderfully expansive and more self-aware William Safire column, while Sean Carroll's Cosmic Variance manages to be wryly humorous even while discussing theoretical physics at the Ph.D. level. Ringers like Alex Ross of The New Yorker and Matthew Yglesias of The Atlantic Monthly hardly seem like fair choices to demonstrate the democratization of the Web, but their blogs, on music and classical politics, respectively, are must-reads
Publishers Weekly

Interesting authors, different viewpoints, good writing, and you can curl up with it next to the fire.
Library Journal

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Boxer
• Assisted by: Sarah Boxer (Editor)
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2008
• EAN: 9780307278067
• ISBN: 978-0-307-27806-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: A Vintage Original; A Vintage Original
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science