desperate last-minute ykos roommate hunt

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Saturday July 28, 2007 · 1:08 PM PDT

2007/07/28 · 13:08

update: problem solved! A nice kossack and her nice roommate are letting this wayward stranger stay in their apartment while the dkos person is out of town that weekend! everyone give deliciea a LOT of mojo & other love if you see her around. OK? good.

I'm hoping I'm not the only one.

I got my registration for Yearly Kos back in March.

I even wrote a grant in April asking my department to help me pay for the plane ticket and registration, and they agreed. So most of my plane ticket and registration were covered (because my dissertation is going to have something to do with the netroots...). And I've been donating to ykos various ways since then.

I got my plane tickets... and then I kinda forgot about a place to sleep.

Anyone need a roommate???

(I'll say a bit more about my situation below; feel free to use this as a ykos-related open thread, too - I'm looking so forward to meeting so many of you there!)

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What do you think?

31 votes Vote Now!

What do you think?

Boy, Fraggle, you really screwed this one up.

2 votes

This is not a good use of a diary. (I'd vote for that, but I'm desperate, as I said.)

2 votes

I want to be your roommate! But...

0 votes

The obligatory PIE.

4 votes

I'm sure it will all work out.

13 votes

This poll is clearly just a gimmick, vainly attempting to get more people to read your diary

0 votes

all of the above (that's my vote).

10 votes

Class And Labor: What do we mean by Class, Anyway?

Fraggle

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Tuesday July 17, 2007 · 5:55 PM PDT

2007/07/17 · 17:55

We talk about class pretty regularly in the world of Democratic politics: we argue over whose policies are best for the middle class, complain about how Republicans don’t care about the working class, explain how John Edwards’ upper class position doesn’t undermine his genuine commitment to the poor, or how his working class background allows him to really understand the plight of the working poor.

But what do all these terms mean? Do you and I picture the same people, or mean the same kinds of jobs, when we talk about the "middle class"? Do the people we’re talking about identify with the classes we imagine them in, or any class at all?

These are questions the field of sociology has been asking, and trying to answer, for the better part of the last 60 years. I’d like to use this diary to take you through some of the answers as well as some of the unresolved issues, and then talk about what you think "class" means, and how you think we ought to use the term.

Fraggle

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Friday April 06, 2007 · 11:23 AM PDT

2007/04/06 · 11:23

This is part 2 of what I thought would be 2, but will probably be at least 3 or 4, diaries on academic takes on various aspects of what we're doing here at the Daily Kos. Part 1 was on online communities generally; the next installments will likely cover writing on the blogosphere as Habermasian "public sphere" and campaigns' use of the internet.

This installment is about studies of political blogs and blogging. I'll tell you what academics have said, and then the fun part is where I ask some questions and we discuss.

So if that sounds good, come with me...

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do you feel part of the or a community here?

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do you feel part of the or a community here?

Yes! I've got great friends I made here and I've met lots of people in the real world

0 votes

Yes. I know a lot of good people here and I've met a few of them in the real world

1 vote

Yes. I am friendly with a bunch of folks here, and I've had some email communication with some of them.

4 votes

Yes, although I've never interacted with any of them outside of dkosland.

8 votes

Kind of. I like this place and I know I share that with a lot of people... sometimes I feel some camaraderie here and it's nice to be somewhere with others who share my views

11 votes

kind of, but not what you said above... I'll explain below.

1 vote

Yes and no, and I'll explain below.

3 votes

No - I'm new... maybe with time.

4 votes

No - I think

2 votes

No - People here suck.

4 votes

What Do They Say About Us? part 1 of 2 (with poll!)

Fraggle

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Wednesday March 28, 2007 · 9:34 AM PDT

2007/03/28 · 09:34

As I mentioned in a diary I wrote back in January, I'm working on an ethnographic study of Daily Kos. What that mostly means at the moment is that I spend a lot of time here, take notes about how I use the site and what I notice others doing, and submit my notes to my participant observation class/workshop every few weeks for discussion. (Don't worry, if I ever publish this I'll use pseudonyms for all our user names - it'll be doubly pseudonymous!)

It also means I'm reading the academic literature about online communities and specifically on political blogging. I thought folks here might like to knows some of what academics are saying about "us" - and I'd like to know your thoughts to the academic take on things. This diary will focus on articles about internet communities in general. I'll post another one on Friday reviewing the literature about politics and the internet.

Want to know what academics have to say about internet communities? Want to explain what you know from actually being here? Read on...

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How much time do you spend here each week, in a more or less

78 votes Vote Now!

How much time do you spend here each week, in a more or less

less than an hour a week, and I just happened to spend 20 minutes of that reading your diary!

1 vote

more than 1 hour and less than 4 hours/week

5 votes

more than 4 hours and less than 7 hours/week

19 votes

about an hour or an hour and a half almost every day (between 7 and 12 hours/week)

18 votes

about two or 2.5 hours almost every day (between 12 and 18 hours/week)

15 votes

about three or 3.5 hours almost every day (between 18 and 24 hours/week)

6 votes

Even more than that!

11 votes

I can't tally my time like that, but I've described my usage below in a comment.

3 votes

"two lesbians kissing"

Fraggle

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Wednesday February 07, 2007 · 10:47 PM PST

2007/02/07 · 22:47

"Yeah, two lesbians kissing is HOT!"

This is a comment I've seen made here often enough that I want to explain something about it. I saw it numerous times in the demographic poll on sexuality. I saw it most recently in Bill in Portland Maine's diary about the Snickers ads in the super bowl, but this isn't about that particular poster, or the poster who replied with "thanks for posting what I didn't have the onions to post." (Onions=balls, right?)

I'm going to assume that most if not all of the folks who post these comments consider themselves to be relatively enlightened guys. Maybe it's done in a sort of semi-ironic Beavis & Butthead humor kind of way - ie, you know it's a bit obnoxious, but you think it's kind of funny to be obnoxious on purpose. Or maybe you just like to talk about your sexual fantasies.

Either way, it's not so good. Here's why.

Fraggle

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Friday January 05, 2007 · 2:00 PM PST

2007/01/05 · 14:00

This diary is intended primarily to ask for help from the collected knowledge of the dKos community. Along the way, I'll also introduce myself and the project I'll be working on this semester.

About me: I'm a PhD student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. Before starting grad school 2.5 years ago, I worked at and then ran a small non-profit in Philadelphia. I've been political in some sense my whole life - from protesting Apartheid and U.S. imperialism and so on with my mom when I was little, to queer and feminist activism in college and after, to organizing friends to volunteer for the Dems in 2004 and 2006. I've been a very regular lurker (and occasional poster) since 2004, sometime in the run-up to the election.

As you may have guessed, the project I'm working on is about Daily Kos...

Fraggle

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Friday December 08, 2006 · 11:24 PM PST

2006/12/08 · 23:24

In Meteor Blades' wonderfully written front page story about the tragedy of all the needless deaths in Iraq, he posted this map.
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A number of people noticed that the biggest clusters of fatalities were in "blue" states, and bemoaned the demonization of liberals despite all "our" states' fatalities.

But, despite appearances, "blue states" don't have more fatalities than "red states" in any important sense. (explanation below)

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desperate last-minute ykos roommate hunt

Class And Labor: What do we mean by Class, Anyway?

What Do They Say About Us? - Political Blogs (with Poll!)

What Do They Say About Us? part 1 of 2 (with poll!)

"two lesbians kissing"

research and writing about Daily Kos

red states, blue states, and Iraq death rates