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Chris’s Billboard
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Bloomsday will be observed probably as long as literature in the English language lasts: marking the breakthrough modern novel Ulysses – a sort of performance in prose by the genius James Joyce of the inner life of a Dublin ad salesman, Leopold Bloom, on a single day, June 16, 1904, just a hundred and one years ago. In honor of Bloomsday, we’re reading through a record about 50 blog writers we found in one day’s grazing of one day’s writing, Blogsday, this Tuesday, June 14, 2005.
Blogsday was written to last perhaps but a moment, but it has its own humble integrity, representing the jottings, confessions, sermons and jokes of now millions of writers for the Internet in this country and around the world. No certifiable geniuses that we’ve discovered today, but their range is astonishing: journals of addiction and recovery, soliders blogging home from Iraq, a very fat man in Texas celebrating yoga, people riding the F train under Brooklyn, ruminating on the teaching of poetry and the learning of karate; falling in love, getting dumped, second-guessing the New York Times, savoring barbecue, changing jobs.
Jennie Israel
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[in the studio]
Greg Steres
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[in the studio]
Charlie Bertsch, on vacationing and homes away from home (not posted on the 14th, but close enough…?)
Lilliputian Lilith arrives in Budapest.
Scrivener on dropping his daughter off for swim lessons (note: he has three posts on the 14th, all of them personal narratives)
Dilip D’Souza on encountering a drunk in Bombay who had a much darker story to tell than it at first seemed.
Oh, and I’m sure you’ve already thought of it, but you might think about getting a James Joyce scholar on the line.
Quite a number of people wrote about it last year — the 100th anniversary of the event. A roundup of some of that coverage, with links to articles, can be found here. Many of the names mentioned might be good candidates.
(If you end up doing this show at all, that is)
Speaking of Bloomsday, after listening to the Open Source Radio show this night [06/16/05], here is a wonderful WBAI live stream event. (I am especially intrigued to hear the “34 Mollys” chorus!)
“Bloomsday on Broadway: Live from Symphony Space”
http://www.wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=5846&Itemid=42
“Listen Live” link:
http://www.wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=36
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWW!!! I’m grinning ear to to ear. Great show, folks!
Re Chris’ Post-Game:
I don’t see what you’re getting at. Isn’t Open Source’s mission to use the internet? From here, it seems as though you’re mining the web to accomplish some of the things you did five years ago, but at warp speed.
Instead of inviting and screening hundreds of micro short stories or haikus, you’re hand picking the freshest produce from an infinitely more fertile field. I was mesmerized by Blogsday and loved last weeks’ other shows. Let the talking heads bloviate elsewhere. Keep surprising us!
The links for The Actor’s Shakespeare Project above are kinda broken. The correct link is http://www.actorsshakespeareproject.org/
Jennie, you rock girl!
Thank you for letting me know you included my blog in BlogsDay. My site is http://bigkiai.com (Big Kiai!) and my blog is about karate. The actor read my entry about receiving my invitation to test for yellow belt. The entire entry can be seen here: http://www.bigkiai.com/2005/06/14/inviation-for-yellow-belt-test/
Thanks again and I loved listening to all of the different blogs that were read in the show.
Regards,
Mike B
http://bigkiai.com
P.S. Sorry for my messed up track back comment above.
Hey, thanks for including me, my post and my blog in your reading on Blogsday! It is really quite an honor.
I am looking forward to listening and reading future Blogsday pieces, can’t wait till next Thursday!
Weird bit of side note – karma, I lived up in the Boston area (Haverhill) for 10 years, hung out around Lowell, traced Kerouac’s steps. I used to work directly across from WGBH studios! I miss it up there a lot!
Hi Guys-
Great show on Thursday and am looking forward to this week’s broadcast. I’m absolutely glowing that you chose to include me in your Blogsday show and after reading a few of the other blogs out there by us Joe Regulars, it’s so great to know that there’s a mass of fantastic underground writing going on. Viva la revoluzione!!! Thanks again…
Thank you for including me in your show. As I sat and listened to the reading I felt like I was listening to someone elses story. It got me out of myself for a time..Thank you so much
Thanks for including me in the broadcast. I got a real kick out of hearing someone else reading my story, “Brooklyn is Beautiful.”
Imagine my surprise, when a fellow blogger posted about blogsday and left the link to listen, and I heard MY WORDS come across the air!! My words written to my sister and posted on HER blog. I have known for over 2 years how great an experience blogging is, and the friends all over the world that I have met because of it. I forced Phyllis to start blogging and she LOVES it too. We have met up with several bloggers, and have never been dissappointed in who we have met. It is a priviledge to be included in your broadcast. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for making Haystacks part of your program. It was truly an honor.
I loved that a male actor read my part. Perfection. That’s exactly how it sounded in my head. Looking forward to future shows. Blog on!
Well, thanks. It was strange to hear an American voice reading from my blog, but I’m flattered that you thought it interesting enough.
Wow.. I first thought it was spam or a joke when I found your message in my comment box, but now that I’ve listened to Jennie Israel reading my post about a dozen times, I’ve got to believe it. My compliments to Jennie, you made a poem from that Under a bell post!
Thanks for choosing mine to read. This show sounds very good and professional and I am proud that I’ve sort of been part of it.
At the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I feel the need to speak up.
I’m flattered that anyone found my writing worth including in a nationally broadcast program, especially as a longtime fan of James Joyce (and Ulysses in particular). And I understand it was impossible to get permission before the fact due to your timelines and need to go to air.
However, I’m less comfortable with a) your editing of my writing without permission, and b) the anonymous way you presented it–that is, no credit during the show, no credit at the end of the show, and, as of a week later, no credit here on the website. I’m under no illusions that any of that would have made me a literary “star” of the internet, and If you’d asked me, I probably would’ve had no problem with any of this; it’s the fact that you didn’t ask me.
Might I suggest that the next time you do this, you pick an earlier date to glean from, which would allow you time to secure the appropriate permissions from the authors? I have to believe that if you were working in (or from) the print medium that a different set of standards would apply; obviously the speed at which this project was able to be put together speaks to one of the strengths of the internet-based media, but I believe the Great Cataloguer, Joyce himself, might consider your handling of the authors to be–to put it delicately–a little sloppy.
Yours,
Ian
The great cataloguer, James Joyce, was — to put it delicately — often himself a little sloppy. With drink and such.
But apologies.
There was an internal argument about whether or how to credit people during the show, and we had to factor in two things: how difficult it is to read out urls or web-type-names on the air and, more important, whether the interruption of the names would sound jarring as we moved from post to post.
You will be satisfied to know that Chris, the host, was on your side, and wanted to credit everyone on air. We, the producers, overrode him at the last moment, not least because it was a half-hour before we went on air, and we no longer had everyone’s name handy.
I wonder, though, whether we would have been able to put this together at all if we had gotten explicit permission from everyone. Certainly we should have done a better job getting everyone up on the blog sooner for credit, but I don’t really feel like we stole from anyone. From a strictly legal standpoint, what we did falls under fair use, but that’s of course not really the point, we want to do right by the people we work with. Or steal from. You know what I’m saying.
So an apology; it would have made bad radio to list everyone on the air, and the producer-hour drag of sending out emails and collating confirmations before the show would have made likely made the hour itself impossible.
But you’re right; perhaps we didn’t have the right to make good radio without everyone’s permission. On balance, everyone — with the exception of your crazy friend who calls himself Anderson Cooper — was happy to have been included on the show. We did, in any case, owe everyone an immediate link on the blog; we didn’t get to a complete list until today, which is a little inexcusable.
Aggh. I think what I just gave was what my girlfriend refers to as a “qualified un-apology.”
Mr. Greeley, you may want to revisit the concept of fair use. I think you’ll find that reproducing an unpublished work in its entirety on a nationwide radio broadcast for the purpose of entertainment does not, in fact, constitute fair use.
I found your “qualified un-apology” glib and thoroughly unapologetic.
Respectfully put to “notdonnareed”: I’m not at all sure how something that has appeared on a publically available blog qualifies as “unpublished”.
That said, I will register some of my empathys with Ian. I thought it was a terrific hour of radio, but I was also wondering whether permissions had been obtained, and once it was obvious they had not been, I was wondering when the first objection would come. Fair Use is a very slippery concept.
Notdonnareed, I posted a fuller specific response to you as a comment on your website, here.
Thanks for finishing the links list, although I think you’ll understand that as “bloggers,” the main thing that interests us is not credit but more readers, and that if anyone listening to the show was going to look up our sites and visit them they would’ve done it immediately afterwards.
I can only reiterate the comparison to print media–if you published a collection of short stories with no authors listed, but put a note at the end of the book stating that acknowledgements could be found on your website, I don’t imagine the authors would find that sufficient, nor would they likely be placated by the argument that prep time or page count was limited, or that crediting them would’ve interrupted the flow of the book.
While the blog medium is new, it’s not that new, and I would suggest that erring on the side of caution might be prudent. (And I assume you’re aware of the Creative Commons license that I and probably others in the list above utilize, which lays out fairly detailed guidelines for pre-approved use.)
Again, I still think it was a good show otherwise, and I’m cognizant that this is a non-profit production and essentially a labor of love for you; I’m just trying to make you aware of issues you’ll no doubt be confronting again.
And incidentally, although Joyce may have been sloppy with his whiskey, I assure you he never was with his writing.
Thanks,
Ian
Chris,
Loved the show, I have been listening to the back log of shows (thanks Dave Winer).
I feel it brings the snapshot of life, in an eclectic collection of human thought.
My hope that this will become a monthly feature to Open Source.
Listening via broadband,
Robin G.