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October 2007

December 2006

other people's stories

by jlesage
Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time.

November 2006

Lists of Bests

by jlesage & 5 others
again, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com

group hug // anonymous online confessions

by jlesage & 9 others
like postsecrets but in prose; "type a note about a fault of your own, something you did or thought about and are not proud of"; filters out obvious lies, overtly vulgar, identifying specific others.

PublicRadioFan.com

by jlesage & 9 others
a radio listening site: schedule listings for thousands of public radio stations and programs around the world

Scenes of Provincial Life

by jlesage
a vblog diary from someone who has a good eye and lives in a picturesque environment

Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter

by jlesage
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.

Adding meaning and value to information

by jlesage
what we do with information that might make it useful and desirable to others

Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle

by jlesage
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice

Photo Essays in Black and White by Herman Krieger

by jlesage
views of vernacular architecture and everyday use in small towns; from Eugene Oregon

lens culture: contemporary photography magazine

by jlesage & 4 others
Photographyy internationally: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, lyrical, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. Essays, interviews with photographers, reviews of exhibitions and photo books.

Why Work?

by jlesage
CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery. Since I am retired and a webmistress for a media site, ejumpcut.org, I love the idea of this site for personal reasons. But most people do have to work, so this maintains an utopian sensibility for al

Wayfaring

by jlesage & 26 others
Create a map of your life* Build a map for your event* Make a travelogue* Create a map with photos and videos

Henry Jenkins: Taking the You Out of YouTube?

by jlesage
what kinds of censorship face You Tube and My Space, in addition to the site's ownership of content?

Baby Animals - Pictures of Baby Animals

by jlesage & 6 others
not just folks with kids but lots of us can enjoy these terminally cute kidlets

October 2006

I Photograph to Remember

by jlesage
Pedro Meyer's photoessay about his father's last days; a classic

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