{"id":66,"date":"2006-10-05T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/rss-readers-and-spazzes\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T11:20:00","slug":"rss-readers-and-spazzes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/05\/rss-readers-and-spazzes\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS readers and spazzes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a bit of a comments freak. Love to make ’em. Yesterday, I started writing two on other peoples’ blogs, but they soon became a bit of a monologue, so I’ve combined them into one post here.<\/p>\n

COMMENT ON TYPE OF RSS READER USED<\/span><\/p>\n

This is in response to CW’s<\/a> request to know whether people are reading her blog via RSS<\/a> and if so, which aggregator.<\/span><\/p>\n

” I read in Bloglines, but if a post really interests me I click through to the live blog to check the “flavour” of the post…and to see whether there are comments.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Bloglines makes posts feel a bit like a translated text…the substance is there, but the nuance is missing. Even seeing a photo of the author as I read their post on the live site adds a very different feel. (Like “I wouldn’t have thought someone who looks like YOU would have thought THAT).<\/p>\n

<\/span>I’m going to experiment in the next few weeks with using portable Thunderbird on a thumbdrive. My main reason for using Bloglines is that I can view it from home and work, but I’d really prefer to integrate my email, browser and RSS reader into the one place.<\/p>\n

COMMENT ON DISABILITY AND VISIBILITY AND “SPAZZES”.<\/span><\/p>\n

This one is a rather belated comment on Dee’s <\/span>Temporal Island<\/a> about <\/span>attending a workshop about disability studies for the new millenium<\/a>, and how it would be great if people did research on “<\/span><\/span>how people with disabilities are often excluded from mainstream society, rather than embraced as a normal part of it”<\/span>
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\nIt’s a really tricky one, the visibility\/normalising debate. On holidays at a medieval castle open day, I saw a sign on the wall near a wishing well saying “Make a wish. Support spastic children. Visitors have donated $22 500.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The medieval sign.<\/p>\n

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I felt like marching up to them with Mr8 and saying “This is my kid with cerebral palsy, not a spastic. It’s a really medieval way you’re describing him, can you please change the sign”.<\/p>\n

Then I thought “Hold on, they are raising money for these kids and people probably are going to give more to the poor little spazzes than to the regular kids who just happen to have brown eyes and cerebral palsy”. The Cerebral Palsy League of Queensland<\/a> was called the Queensland Spastic Welfare League<\/a> until 1998, so maybe the castle just had not updated the sign.<\/p>\n

It means degrading my kid’s dignity and doing a bit of emotional blackmail to manipulate the public to give more money. It costs a serious lot of money to support a kid with reallly severe cerebral palsy , so would I be doing a disservice to those kids (and adults) by insisting that my less affected kid gets called the right thing?
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