oh...my...gosh. my friend Ana (the person who introduced me to blogs!) just sent me an email with a link to www.misbehaving.net, a fairly new blog on women and technology. all kinds of excellent information that i can use for my paper on blogging. or if not for the current paper, certainly for my conference paper i'm doing in the spring. so here's the thing: tell everybody what you're writing your papers on and you'll always get great research tips back. research, just like writing, is not a solitary, vacuum-packed activity. it's hugely collaborative ... the moment you read someone else's words and ideas, you are collaborating in the production and dissemination of knowledge, ideas.