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CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER

I've posted about the mail art blog of Cheshire, UK's own Michael Leigh before but he's really gone and done it this time.
I might have to creat a new category just for him if he keeps effloressing with the bloggage like he does.
The new one is called Curious Things and is in English and Italian (whenever possible). The collage work seems to have a more cohesive narrative flow in this one. Not that his other stuff doesn't but this one has expert "telegraphing of events" that the kids and James Joyce like so much. Plus you get sporadic orchestration of posts via YouSendIt, which is always nice.
So let's review:
the blogs of Michael Leigh include (but are not limited to)
Curious Things
Flobberlob
A.1.Mail Art Archive

KUDOS I CAN USE

Admit One sees the light and explains it all to you.
Not that Admit One doesn't often see the light, but this time it's about Me Goddamnit, Me.

A YEAST TO BE NAMED LATER

Cute? Nice? Unpleasant? Horrid? These are some of the adjectives you won't even be considering when you check out The Bloggy, Bloggy Dew
Insouciance? Check.
Hilarity? Check
Delightful Oddness? In Spades.
Links To One of My Blogs? Every Night ,Josephine.







If i can bring the room down a minute, let me just say, in all sincerity, this is one of the finer Sifter blogs I've come across.
Why? Because it doesn't beat you over the head with how freaky it can be, and the pictures are hilarious.
Be sure to check out the flickr gallery where the graphic at the left came from. it's from a filmstrip that asks you to pick the words that best describe the picture. It's supposed to be about vocabulary, but seems more like a psychological test for deviance.
he posts under the name "a nameless yeast" here.
Show some love, give the yeast a name.

SIFTERS BLOG SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

Sifters are bloggers who could be considered "professional" if not for their time wasting scouring of the web for new and unusual tidbits of cyberflotsam of interest to just about anybody. It's polite to cite your source when stealing links from them, but I usually don't. Here are some prime examples:

Aeiou A.1. Mail Art Archive Admit One Airbag Another Site Apothacary's Drawer Art Notes Attu Sees All B3TA B.A.'s Weblog Backwash Bacon And Ehs Bad Example Bad Gas Barbeblogs Barista Bat's Brain Beautiful Stuff The Bed And Breakfast Man A Best Truth Better Living Through Blogging Pete Bevrin Bibi's Box Bifurcated Rivets Big Blog Blogbandit Blogeur Bloggerheads Blogywood BoingBoing Sean Bonner Boynton The Brendanverse Buffoonery Burp Buzz The Cartoonist Caterina Catch Chaos Now Chaos Theory Chapel Perilous Chasing Daisy Cheek Cipango Circadian Shift Compfused Collision Detection Complete Waste Of Time Conscientious Contact Sheet Cool Stop Coudal Partners Cynical -C Daily Mercury Dangerblog Deltadada Defective Yeti Details, Details, details..... Diminished Responsability Discordia Diversions Diztopia Drikoland Easy Bake Coven Eclectica Ektopia Endless Parade Of Exellence Ethereal Code Everlasting Blort Exitement Machine Exclamation Mark Eyebeam Reblogger Eye Of The Goof Factovision Fazed Flotsam And Jetsam 50 Cups Of Coffee Fimoculous Fishbucket Flobberlob Flummoxed Folderol Follow Me Here Found On The Web Fun Junkie

Funlog Furtive Futurismic GeekPress Geisha Asobi Giornale Nuovo Glubibulga gmtPlus9 Good Grief! Gravity Lens Grouse! Grow A Brain Gulf Stream Herd of Nerds Heardsaid HoboDogBlog Hotlinks ID03 Idle Type I Like I Love Everything Incoming Signals Informador Information Junk Internet Scout Project Internet Weekly Report Invisible Broadcast System Irregular Orbit Izzle Pfaff JAF Project J-Walk Jazz Cafe A Joshua Tree in Every Pot Junk for Code Brian Kane Kapowie Zone Kempa Kevin Kelm Kiplog Kosmonautentraum Lancewaxer Left Blank Life In The Present Like A Packet of Woodbines LinkMachine Go Link Swarm Lonita's Links Log Look At This Lots of Co. Low Culture Madville Tom Mcmahon Megarad MemeFirst Meme Machine Go! Memepool Metascene Milk And Cookies Ministry Of Propaganda Ming The Mechanic MisterPants Mr. Sun MonkeyFilter Mooselessness Mosses From An Old Manse My Nakada My Own Biggest Fan Mysterium Nasty Start Neat New Stuff On The Net Neurastenia Netwatch Central News From Me New World Disorder Notes Ober Dicta Obscure ObscuroRant Off On A Tangent Ollapodria One Man Safari Open All Night Papel Continuo

Paperholic Parasew PCL Linkdump La Petite Claudine Peace Dividend Pete’s Organic Linkfarm Pith And Vinegar Planet Dan Plastic Plep Poor Clio Pop Culture Gadabout Pop Culture Junkmail Porksurfer Portal of Evil Presurfer QuasiMeta Quiddity Ramage Random Abstract Random Drivel Random Websit.Com Rashomon RC6 Reality Carnival Record Brother Retrographix Retro Randy Ritalin Robot Action Boy Ronsen's Links Sachs Report Crispin Sartwell Satanosphere Sciatica Screenhead Scrubbles Sect Of Rama Sharpeworld ShouldExist Six Six Five A Small Victory Snarkout Snarky Malarky Solipsistic Something Awful Sore Eyes Spamnet Stray Dog Strip Mining for Whimsey Structualist Sugar and Spicy Surley Heckler Swapatorium Sylvia Sometimes Temple Of Psychic Blah The Eyes Have It Things Magazine Third Red Eye To Blog Or Not To Blog Traveler's Diagram Ultimate Insult Uncle Stupid Unstoppable URL DJ /user/bin/girl Carolina Vigna Maru' Wacky Neighbor Walt Now! Waxy.org Web Junky Weirdlinks A Welsh View We Make Money Not Art Wibsite April Winchell YAWL YipYop Yummy Wakame Zfilter

SIFTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES

Michael Leigh of Cheshire, England Is so observent of the beautiful detritus of this life that, rather than be haunted by forgotten minutia, he has three blogs of mail art related creamy goodness. Banned by the Beeb, but boy oh boy, As they used to say on Radio Caroline.
Flobberlob
A.1. Mail Art Archive
Obscure

Sylvia Sometimes continues the work of something that I thought was a dead notion now that the internet is inflicted upon us; Mail Art. I would like to say that I existed on the peripheries of its' heyday, but I can't even do that- writing three columns for Photostatic Magazine doesn't cut it. It's still nice to see people taking the time to glue things to other things. I spent the better part of my youth doing just that.

I LOVE EVERYBODY, ESPECIALLY SIFTERS

I am not going to mention the low grade irony of blogs like Emerging Media Audiences: The Culture of Connectedness not having any way to comment exept via email. Blogs "about the intersection of tech-enabled social networking and emerging media audiences" should be more open ended and condusive to critical dialog. I am however going to mention apophesis (the artful mention of something by it's negation or denial), and the fact that said blog has it all wrong. I don't have a problem with sifter blogs. Look how many of them I link to. Perhaps
the fallacy of inclusion and deep and sincere sarcasm without apology is too much for some people. I detect a whiff of sadness and an as yet unrealized vendetta against I know not what.

Kim;"a social networking"? try "a social network" the gerund form of [to] "social network" is an unecessary coinage that makes your message unclear. Kind of like the way you view my position on "Sifters".

Oberdicta gets me.
Bill Brown fully comprehends concepts and ideas that are presented to him in an unusual manner.
J-Walk understands.
Grow A Brain knows me better than I know myself.
It's not that hard, people.

UPDATE ON THE UPDATES; RAVE UNTO THE JOY FANTASTIC
Emerging Media Audiences: The Culture of Connectedness responds to the above thusly: "Bloghorrea: I rap my knuckles over your post here:"-
"UPDATE (Nov. 26): Bloghorrea takes me to task for the following post. My only defense: As a sifter, sloppiness in 'getting it' within a few seconds on a Web page and always typing perfectly spelled words seems to come with the behavior. At least in my case. And why haven't I turned on comments yet? Two words: Lazy & cogitating. Lazy in trying to maintain time-control of this blog around my other work. Cogitating is that I have a concept for a slightly different use of Comments that I'm knocking around."

Whuttt th' fuuuukkk? Is she ESL? I don't get the "rap my knuckles" bit . Is it supposed to be some kind of admonishment? I wish this blog came with a red pencil on a string so I could correct the use of tenses, conjunctions, prepositions, etc., as needed. The content's not bad, but you'd never know it by reading the copy.
Kim:
Everyone I know who has tried to get tricky with comments has failed miserably.
There are two things you can do with/about comments-turn them on, or turn them off. Invite them or deny them. You can't make people follow a new paradigm when it comes to putting in their 2 cents. I'm just sayin.........

Thank you, Exclamation Mark , for not only getting it, but enriching the culture with this:

"Sifting puts me in the mind of mining for gold. Which seems to fit the link bloggers work. Sifting through countless sites and links to find the occasional gem to share with the world."
-Mark

A NATION OF SIFTERS

Stumbled Upon is a concept I first uh, "stumbled upon" whilst parusing my referrers list.
The concept is simple- you sign up, get a toolbar doohickey (for any platform, any browser) and start spreading the linky love.
It's social engineering and a search engine all in one.
Because of the randomness of people's interests and obsessions, it redifines browsing- or at least makes a case for the true definition of the word.
I've found more useful information just by fucking about on the service than I ever have on Google.
Because the categories are basic and open to interpretation, not dictated by professional library scientists, they make more sense semanticly. At least to me.