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Social Media

Change begins closer to home

I did want to point out that there has been a good number of really great comments attached to the Change Starts at Home post. In particular, if you’re interested in social software, inequality within weblogging, and so on, you might want to take a look. Seth pointed out the Symposium on Social Architecture ‘do’ at Harvard come November. Before […]

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Diversity

Tech woman: freak of nature

Oh my: Would you rip files at a high or low bit-rate? Do you prefer AAC, WMA or MP3? If you are completely baffled by these questions, you are probably a woman. And the article goes down from there. I don’t like pink, I am not fond of round corners, can program a VCR — […]

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Weblogging

Get your Bozo on

Yes! Thank you! I needed this. The BetterBadNews folk take on Tim O’Reilly, Foo Camp, ranking, as well as making a case for getting your Bozo on. Why? Because being a bozo is where it’s at. Case in point: Lone wolfs are cool. If you’re a true lone wolf, you don’t care about ranking schemes. Not caring […]

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Connecting

Helping out

In a previous post, I wrote: AKMA has been writing about St. Patrick’s Church in Long Beach, Mississippi, ministered by a friend of his, Rev. David Knight. The church is gone, but the associated school is running as a clinic. If, in addition to your giving to national charities such as Red Cross, you want to make […]

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Social Media

Change starts at home

There was a conference in the UK called Our Social World that ran last week. According to the front page: Theme: Demonstrating to you the benefits of the new internet technologies and the benefits of opening up communications with your customers and fellow workers without email! Who should attend: You if you are involved in […]