http://unionstreet.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/bits-and-pieces/ Second-order observations on sociology, education, politics, culture, and whatever else catches my interest... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:34:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://unionstreet.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/bits-and-pieces/#comment-300 Andrew Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:45:08 +0000 http://unionstreet.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/bits-and-pieces/#comment-300 I did find it funny that the first minute or two of the video was spent coaxing White in front of the camera. Re: mothers-in-law, I think your interpretation is charitable. I thought he was using the figure of the mother-in-law as a stock example of a kind of micro-level turbulence over which larger institutions are superimposed. I did find it funny that the first minute or two of the video was spent coaxing White in front of the camera. Re: mothers-in-law, I think your interpretation is charitable. I thought he was using the figure of the mother-in-law as a stock example of a kind of micro-level turbulence over which larger institutions are superimposed.

]]> http://unionstreet.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/bits-and-pieces/#comment-298 kibitzer2 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:03:42 +0000 http://unionstreet.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/bits-and-pieces/#comment-298 The videoblog with Harrison White is hilarious. But what the heck is Harrison getting at in asking the interviewer, "Do you have a mother-in-law?" I think he was perplexed that the videoblogger was indifferent to who the audience of the blog might be, because most of his communications (the books he's writing instead of blogging) are intended for particular audiences. Maybe he was trying to force the videoblogger into thinking about a more concrete audience. The videoblog with Harrison White is hilarious. But what the heck is Harrison getting at in asking the interviewer, “Do you have a mother-in-law?” I think he was perplexed that the videoblogger was indifferent to who the audience of the blog might be, because most of his communications (the books he’s writing instead of blogging) are intended for particular audiences. Maybe he was trying to force the videoblogger into thinking about a more concrete audience.

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