So today I opened my laptop as usual with my cup of morning coffee – but today I was determined to shut off all social networking possibilities….

so I told my twitter friends – call me if you must contact me – am offline

I told my facebook friends – call me – am offline today…

and then opened my email … and there were a series of email alerts from blogger telling me about the posts on Radha ki Betiyaan – the UK neice has been prolific this morning….

but seriously – I will be offline today – call me if you must talk to me and leave me voice mail because I may not pick up the phone.

“Displacing tribals”

Thinking through … loss – what does it mean when someone dies…

loss of voice, loss of location , loss of work that might not otherwise happen…

which sorts of organizations suffer in what ways through the loss of a member to death or otherwise…

and if it is death – what are the unique implications?

thinking through this in relation to Seema, Julie and Ruth – blogging more elaborately on radha ki betiyaan since it is private and personal to me…

but maybe I will have more on this here later.

okay – so the title of this post says it all:)

Now that "radha ki betiyaan" has become another excuse for me to

blog about my life… I suddenly have to send out email alerts to some

members of my family about something I blogged – in case that is the first t

time they would see or hear about it and be surprised….

well – more communication – is that good or not?

if more communication through multiple channels

when is it more effective

how is it more effective

p.s. have to laugh at where the tag radha ki betiyaan links to…

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link to aoir list archives – the discussion thread is titled “etiquette for reusing or reposting blog posts” – around the date of July 25th

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The contradiction regarding our expectations of use of online spaces continues to surprise me (and this includes my own expectations and unarticulated responses as a user/consumer too) …

We want to be public here on our own terms. Even while knowing how surveillance oriented the Net is…

we still want to maintain the illusion of “individuall” liberal humanist agency in online spaces….

hmmm

my knee-jerk response at this moment is to say dont blog if you dont want to be appropriated…

but is it that simple?

who’d a thunk it – my writing with neices leads me back to mapping roots and routes …

“my nostalgia for the rural is so unexplained by my actual life experiences…or on second thoughts maybe not unexplainable at all… while some may locate my yearning/nostalgia in roots in kakaraparru – it may be that the smells of burning wood and mud huts is actually taking me back to rural Africa…? or the rural Thai and Indonesian habitats that were still tucked in the backyards of urbanity of Bangkok, Jakarta, Bandung and even in the touristiness of Bali back in the late 60s and 70s”

Thus far I have been fairly cautious about blogging (I know its a strange thing to say when I have like a million blogs and million pictures and videos and email exchanges all in googlable distance on the internet…) because privacy is a concern for me (laugh away… but where in my facebook, twitter or website do you see something really really pvt – okay – maybe occasionally there are slips – oh okay – there are LOTS of slips;-)).

But it is interesting how twittering and facebooking have become more a sort of mentoring/advising activity of late.

This last week blogging has taken off in a new direction for me when after overcoming my initial hesitation, I followed up on my neice P’s suggestion that we have a blog to continue conversations begun under the header of Atlanta reunion… I went ACK no googlable pvt family stuff please. But then I relented and “Radha ki Betiyaan” – i.e. me and all my neices (thanks to K for the suggestion of blog name) now are privately blogging …

As someone who researches online/offline intersections – I find this sudden personal turn in my blogging activity to be fairly educational as well…

we live and we learn, eh?

Now that I am back from hectic journeying with family for research and pleasure – I am slowly getting caught up on all my writing deadlines.

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