First, I’d like to thank Rachel for inviting me here - I did not expect such a warm welcome when I asked if I could use her blog to get a press pass for the 2008 NYC Finovate. Rachel and I have a shared passion in money-grubbing, and I suppose I’m here to manifest that side of her so she doesn’t have to.
I am a big fan of personal finance blogs (a typical example) and Web 2.0 finance applications (my favorite). I’m not sure what “other interests” I have, but I guess we’ll find out, won’t we? Still, I promise to try not to pull the focus of this blog too far from what we all know and love.
On that note, here is something awesome. I’ve had this song on repeat for the past 6 hours.
insert comment here about necessity of fair use, creative commons, etc. in artistic production, blah blah.
Starting Very Soon Now, my distinguished colleague Alex Wong will be guest blogging on rachelpopkin.com.
Q: But Rachel, isn’t it a little weird for you to be appointing guest bloggers on your personal blog?
A: Ok, yes, a little. However:
The internet is a big place, and I can always use help choosing interesting bits of it to showcase here.
This means more content! So when I’m AFK for several weeks at a time (which does occasionally happen, due to travel or laziness), you will still have things to click on instead of doing your real work.
Alex’s interests are somewhat different than mine -> variety! Yes!
Alex is pretty cool.
So give him a warm welcome (read: please comment on his posts when he starts posting).
My posting has fallen off, mostly because of coursework. Senior spring is far less relaxing than I’d hoped.
However.
I’ve started kind-of-maintaining a tumbler “tumblog” or whatever we’re supposed to call them. There’s not much original content, but I do post interesting stuff when I see it.
Asking out of curiousity, do you purposely not capitalize “Internet”?
Yeah, that’s by design.
In my academic writing about the Internet, I did capitalize it, because that’s the “correct” thing to do. (Aside: as a psych major, I did some stuff on social development of introverts on the Internet. PDF, 1.9mb, my stuff starts on page 28.)
But I think it looks dumb for a blog. To me, it has a connotation of out-of-touch-ness, as if the Internet is a strange land we must refer to formally, instead of our native environment.
This is what I think of:
Uppercase Internet: “The Internet is a series of tubes.” Or maybe Fox 11’s news report on Anonymous.
