New Feature Announcement:
The Bloggrrrlz Gallery
Click on the link, and you'll find yourself at a Website that has a string of bloggrrrlz blogs listed across the top. Now, you might be thinking to yourself, "Ah, this is just a list of links"; but you'd be missing the big feature. Notice that below the listings is a giant window. Watch what happens when you click on a blog link. After what happens has perhaps impressed you, click on another link; click on a third. Go through the whole list if you like.
That's right: one site, The Bloggrrrlz Gallery, from which you can look into a portal window and see the world of feminist blogs. The Bloggrrrlz Gallery is a one-stop meta-site where you can park every day to watch the Blogosphere unfold through the words and images on the hottest, fastest-growing, most dynamic part of the Blogosphere today.
By providing this new service, the Big Brass Blog continues its tradition of giving voice, forum, and opportunity to those who have been ignored, turned away, turned down, and set aside for too long. Perhaps one day, the extremists of the Right will have the world of violent men and cowering women they want. Perhaps one day, the fascists of religions across the world will return the wrath of their angry and false gods to those who would dare to question. And perhaps one day, the mainstream news media and the giant graffiti blogs will be able to once again decide who matters and for how long.
We don't think so. In fact, we intend to make sure the past stays buried.
it's quite another to blog the blogs.
The Big Brass Blog most definitely blogs the blogs.
Now, go have a look at the future.
The Dark Wraith has provided.
Published 4/10/2005 04:26:00 PM
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That is quite a nice feature!!
Thank you for including my blog, Dark Wraith!
Good evening, Elayne Riggs.
The Bloggrrrlz Gallery would not have been complete without your blog. There are still quite a few excellent blogs out there that need to be included; but at the very least, we gathered up some of the luminaries for the launch of the feature.
Let people know about the Gallery: the more traffic, the less the big graffiti blogs can continue to marginalize the women bloggers.
And do be sure to keep on doing what you've been doing: blogging well.
And remember the old saying:
There's really only one way to accurately predict the future:
You must create it.
The Dark Wraith is starting to be more optimistic about the future.
[But the neo-cons keep getting in the way of anything close to euphoria.]
Wow. I'm already on the Bloggrrrlz list. And, I didn't have to bribe anyone. :)
Where do I get the code to put the logo on my blog?
Good morning, Kat.
This Blogger editing interface has made my life more complicated because it recently decided to stop letting me use "escapes" to write HTML tags that would show up as such. I'm going to try to trick blogger, here, so let's see if this works:
Cut and paste the following snippet of code into your blog:
<a href="http://www.dark-wraith.com/bloggrrrlz.html" title="The Bloggrrrlz Gallery" target="_blank"><img src=http://www.dark-wraith.com/images/bloggrrrlz2.png" alt="Bloggrrrlz Gallery logo"></a>
And that should do it. You might want to bracket this with a DIV tag pair that is one used in other parts of your sidebar.
Now, let's see if Blogger got fooled by my trick.
The Dark Wraith prepares to cuss and swear.
My God, it worked.
The Dark Wraith can put away his book of 10,000 Cyberspace Curses.
It's a nifty feature DW, and thank the gods themselves there are no blinking flash ads here. Over at AmericaBlog John has decided to go a little ad crazy. Now no matter where you click you get barraged with ads. I know its something he probably has to do but I'm glad their are still havens on the net without them.
I also love the quote about how the only way to predict the future is to create it. I'll talk about my trip to the opera in the next open thread.
-Gary A
So help me God, Gary, I do sorely hate blinking, jerking, twitching, flashing, popping, snorting, farting, flipping, twisting ads on Websites. They are an abomination that should be cast into the bubbling magma of the nearest volcanic cauldron to be sent back to the molecular level for re-assignment.
The Dark Wraith has, once again, understated his position on a trivial matter.
[Then again, blogScream could be annoying to some, I suppose. DARNED! So much for curmudgeonly consistency.]
Thank you Dark Wraith. That's awesome! I'm pleased to be one of the bloggrrrlz and I didn't even have to put out. Groovy!
Good afternoon, Liz.
Uh...
The Dark Wraith is uncharacteristically at a loss for words.
I've noticed Liz can have that effect on people!
- oddjob
Hey Dark Wraith...
are you going to make a blog boyz gallery?
Cripe, NeoCon Crusher, you sure know how to put a wraith in a difficult position.
I'm not opposed to the idea in principle, but you need to give me a theme. You see, the Bloggrrrlz concept is thematic in and of itself because the dominant blogs have been systematically ignoring a massive groundswell of excellent blogs. It's one of those rare opportunities in business when you can find the industry leaders cutting off their collective nose just to spite their own ugly face: by ignoring the feminist bloggers, they are—consciously or unconsciously—simply handing the leading edge of the market to their competitors who can see where the trends are pointing.
If you've had a chance to look at those bloggrrrlz blogs in the Gallery, you'll see remarkable diversity in style: you've got everything from the blunt and caustic to the tentative and dignified. But what they all have in common is an elemental fierceness that has little if any affectation.
That, my friend, is a market that will either flame itself out or flame out the competition. I'm betting it will ultimately do the latter, and those feminist bloggers are going to be more than just a "contribution" to information content delivery in the decades ahead; they're going to be the standard.
I'm not opposed to a BlogBoyz feature, but it couldn't be the Gallery: that was something special I put together to create a draw to the site with the potential for high return rates. If enough people start using that site, I can return to my expertise in consulting and talk to corporations about paying a nickel to have a modest presence there. And the bloggers of the Big Brass Blog can do there what I've already done on blogScream: say "No" to potential advertisers that want to be among the progressives while they still sleep in the pen with their neo-con pigs. Eventually, corporations will get sick of catering to a minority of crazies who are so offended by just about everything on Earth.
Give me a theme, NeoCon Crusher. Look to the pennants on the mountains to which we are traveling, and tell me which way the winds of change are blowing.
Convince me; but if you can't convince me, at the very least, make me believe. If you and others can do that, then I'll put together another Dark Wraith gee-whiz.
The Dark Wraith awaits.
I have an idea.
If you can find blogs written by men who also have been shut out of the mainstream and whose ideas are compatible with the ideas of feminism, why not include them with the bloggrrrlz?
It's kind of like when the old school feminists felt like they had to adapt to a man's world by wearing suit and tie, why not allow boyz blogs as long as they are willing to acknowledge the possibility of female leadership in their writings?
Of course, the men would have to get over the mental roadblock of being called one of the girls. Just as fair, though. Many women, wanting to compete in a man's world, in their quest of belonging could only dream of being treated like "one of the guys." (Come to find out, being a guy isn't what it's cracked up to be, but that's neither here nor there.)
Whaddya think?
wiseguy
Eh, thats ok Dark Wraith...
It was sort of a childish tongue-in-cheek request hinting at just a little discrimination...
You have already done more than enough to help me out and others.
I see your point on the gallery and appreciate your well thought out and detailed response. It was unexpected to say the least.
I can deffinately see how the Bloggrrrlz Gallery can be effective. I dont think a bloggrrboyzz gallery would work because as men we have dominated the world for nearly all of human history and there would be no draw.
A feminist gallery does have a certain kick to it; Especially since all us dumb males like to think that there is a sweet soft woman under all that gruff exterior. Sexist? To say the least.
I think a more realistic approach may be be to have galleries based on topics such as politics, philosophy, popular culture, current events, what Bush had for breakfast, etc.
But I dont know how you do what you do and if you do what you do for money and if you can make money doing what you do by putting all blog links in a gallery type format based on catagories. How would it benefit you? Could it benefit you?
The one thing I really liked about the gallery format was being able to click on one blog and the next without jumping websites; that to me has appeal because you can scan a bunch of blogs in a short amount of time and read those that catch your interest.
Besides all of that, I was just acting like a 2 year old...never mind me...
You need to be a bit more persistent, NeoCon Crusher. I work on ideas that start out by making me wince. This expanse in my cerebellum says, "Naw"; and then, after a while, I see a way to accomplish it.
That's when curiosity switches over to obsession.
You have some of that in you, too. Without revealing too much detail, you want to know things. You'll be great if you ever get really serious about programming or just writing code for Websites. Obsession is a terrible master, but it is such a wonderful slave. The hard part is knowing when the relationship has flipped adversely.
Paradigm shifts are a real pain that way:
Once he built himself a model,
made it run, he did—made it race against mortal time!
Broke all the rules, that model did; but tell me this, me brother: can ye really spare-a-digm?
The Dark Wraith has waxed poetic.
Dark Wraith,
Sometimes I am really dense...
You said:
"You need to be a bit more persistent..."
In regards to what?
Dark Wraith,
Sometimes I am really dense...
You said:
"You need to be a bit more persistent..."
In regards to what?
I love to learn about things and I promise I am working on code. I have learned what HTML tags are and have found for example the p tag very usefull in my posts.
I started reading about CSS on the W3 schools website. I like that site; I think I can do this. But it will take time...
In between my job, the 3 books I am reading, a screen play I was attempting to write, the now 2 blogs, attempted exercise, and a girlfriend I am tryng to learn code...
I do plan on eventually just getting websites and leaving blogger to the floggers but it will probably be AT LEAST 6 months from now I imagine...
BTW this was great!!
"Once he built himself a model,
made it run, he did—made it race against mortal time!
Broke all the rules, that model did; but tell me this, me brother: can ye really spare-a-digm?"
Did you write that? If so Kudos, if not who did?
And if by being persistent you mean I should tell you again that you should put all the blog links in gallery format by catagory well then, I will tell you again...
Hey, if I could do it I would...Hopefully some day I will be able to do it and I will.
But again, what the benefits are I cannot say objectively.
Subjectively it seems a lot nicer to do a sneak peak than click-and-back or click-in-new-window....
Then again, it could be the newness of the technique that has me giddy. In which case it will wear off in a few days and it won't seem so novel any more.
In regard to ideas you have, good blogger. Certainly, you have ideas that merit more than a mere, passing nod from me.
You are a citizen of Blogosphere version 2.0. This release is better than the first; and one reason is that, unlike version 1.x, we listen to each other instead of just talking to hear only ourselves. You might have noticed that really cool new feature in full use here on The Dark Wraith Forums: people here actually address each other in something far more like dialogue than you see on the huge, fossil blogs that are still running from the previous release of the Blogosphere.
That, NeoCon Crusher, is what will make this release a real classic.
The Dark Wraith will now post an open forum before this thread starts to creak under the weight of comments.
Good evening, Wise Guy. Before I leave this thread, I should return to your suggestion.
I think I would worry way too much about a slippery slope of letting blogs by men—even blogs by feminist men—become a part of the Bloggrrrlz Gallery. The idea that any one class or group of people can fully understand what it is like to be in another class misses the point of life's experience. In order for me to understand what it is like to be oppressed as a woman, I would have to be a woman, to bind not just to the currency of that other life, but also to be infused of the culture in which that life grows from infancy forward. Anything else is merely reading about it in digest form.
The same goes for race: in order to understand what it is like to be a young African-American male, I must be that. Anything less is just watching the movie version.
And this is not to put "men" as some diffuse class in a lowest-of-the-low position. For all I can say, for example, against some Southern, redneck hick who voted for George Bush, I need to grasp that man's utter powerlessness in a world far more complex than he understands. His swagger of certitude is, in our time, the limp of the ways that have already died but know not yet that this event has come and gone. Such men may strike with ignorant fury, but their cause is lost. They and their ways will be gone one day. It is unfortunate, though, that we must hear these dead men speak as if they have not already seen the end of their days.
I tell you, Wise Guy, there are times when I carry myself to utter, derisive excess in my criticism of such "hicks," and then this awful question begins to gnaw at me: Is it really SO wrong to ask that the world be simple and the answers be straight?
Sadly, it's not wrong to ask for such small favors; it's just foolish to expect such small favors to be granted.
Not in this world, anyway.
The Dark Wraith needs to post the open forum, now.
Wrong or not, is it not a characteristic of adolescence to assume that matters, especially moral ones, have quick, easy answers?
Regardless of how badly one wants such, is it not better to be a grown-up about it?
- oddjob
You are, of course, correct, OddJob.
I shall be the first to admit, though, that there have been times even in recent years when I wished that I still had my toy Tonka truck so I could kick it when things weren't going my way.
I suppose that, since I never kicked my toys when I was a kid (I was afraid I'd hurt their feelings), I probably wouldn't do it now, either.
The Dark Wraith would, however, once in a while like to set his cup of coffee down forcefully.
[If nothing else, I'll bet the spray of java juice would be pretty impressive from a fluid dynamics perspective.]
And by the way, OddJob, don't you ever sleep, either?
Geez, and here I thought I was the only one who haunted the night... other than that Mr. Goat prowling around down in the cupboards looking for a Spam sandwich snack.
The Dark Wraith gets worried by all the things that go BUMP in the night.
*cough*
Um, when I added the code you provided, I got a broken link icon.
Any advice, dear?
Dear God, I shouldn't be allowed anywhere near code. Forgive me: I left out a stupid quotation mark in that snippet, Kat.
Let's try again, shall we?
<a href="http://www.dark-wraith.com/bloggrrrlz.html" title="The Bloggrrrlz Gallery" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.dark-wraith.com/images/bloggrrrlz2.png" alt="Bloggrrrlz Gallery logo"></a>
The Dark Wraith needs to be flogged.
Flogging? Okay, now you're just teasing me, dear.
The code worked fine this time. Patiently waiting for the revised Blogscream code, so I can add it.