Matchmaker

Do you ever want to match up bloggers you read from different parts of the blog world?

I mean, the infertile blogosphere is pretty well connected, and the feminists read each other, as do a lot of the academics, and of course there is a lot of overlap amongst those categories. But some people probably don’t know about each other.

For example, as far as I can tell, Chris Clark and Johnny have nothing in common aside from their gender-and their love for their ailing dogs (Zeke and Blue) . Warning: those posts might make you cry.

Has Michael Bérubé read Lisa’s blog, especially the posts on disability? (Have you read it? Why not?).

When I read Jolisa’s birthstory at Busytown, I wondered if she knew Jo (both former New Yorkers, wrote about homebirth, their husbands may be in the same academic field) or if she’d like to meet Jaime at Selkie (because she mentioned Ina May).
When I read about the frustrations that people adopting internationally have dealing with the background checks and fingerprints and so on (Karen wrote about this, but I can’t find the post), I think of Bruce Schneier’s blog on security issues. He doesn’t talk about adoption, but some of the basic problems are the same. How can a government or agency determine who is the best parent for the children/ infants in their care? Which requirements are useful and which are what Schneier calls “security theater”? After Rivka mentioned him in Respectful of Otters a couple of years ago, I read his book Beyond Fear, which explains the concepts that are the basis for his opinions on specific issues first. I recommend it

I think Schneier and PZ Myers probably already know each other and are privy to a secret cephalopod-fanatics’ handshake.

I know Bitch, Ph.D. probably reads Cosmic Variance, because her links led me to Sean Carroll at his previous blog, but has she read the posts there about navigating Los Angeles by foot and by bus? (I think Clifford wrote them, but I couldn’t find them when I searched, so maybe one of the other authors did.) Anyway, I hope she gets a chance to take Pseudonymous Kid to the Griffith Observatory this year.