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Archive for January, 2008

The explanation problem

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

You may know this: I’m a fan of Common Craft, the folks who have put out those absolutely brilliant short videos “in plain English” on tech topics.
In a recent post, Lee Lefever wrote about “Discovering the RSS Explanation Problem” based on this exchange:
Q: What is RSS?
A: RSS is an XML-based content syndication format.
Say what? A [...]

Status of my Facebook Applications

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Here’s a quick look at the Facebook applications I’ve tried on my profile, the ones I’ve kept and the ones I’ve disabled.
Applications

Facebook Basics

Friends
Groups
Ads and Pages
I am a Fan of (like groups for pages)
Mini-Feed
Information
Education
The Wall

Information I provide

Command Post - an easy way to post info to multiple places. I use it to post to Twitter — [...]

35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

We must not go back.
Read Sarah Weddington’s, A Question of Choice.
Review what was said around the most recent March for Women’s Lives.
Listen to the stories of women who have had abortions on today’s Talk of the Nation on NPR.
We need to work on pregnancy prevention initiatives: give girls real hope that they’ll have successful lives [...]

Visit to Tryon Regional Branch

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

[ February 25, 2008; ] Morning session with the board and interested members.

Branch meeting 1:00 - 2:30.

Feb 17 update: This trip has been canceled. Apologies to the branch and I do hope to see many of them in Greensboro at Convention and will reschedule if possible.

Discussions on Facebook

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

For the last couple of days I’ve been involved in a Facebook discussion of 12 people, 34 messages so far. It’s taking place as a message thread — showing up in my INBOX. I’m trying to capture the pros and cons of Facebook message platforms -
1. Message threads.
You can add many of your friends to [...]

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