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When Real Life Interrupts: Maintaining Separate Images & Personas
I am officially 21. My birthday was this past Friday and I want to take the time to thank you all for the well wishes and gifts. I’ve gotten a ton of both.
For my birthday I partied hard with my friends Friday and Saturday night. However, I encountered a dilemma on Sunday when [...]
Friends Outweighing Hatred On The Web
Last night, Wayne Sutton and I did a livestream Q&A via Yahoo! Live. Originally, we intended to do it via ustream.tv, however Wayne was have a few technical difficulties with the service only minutes before we were to go live. So, we made a switch to Yahoo! Live.
The conversation with Wayne was great, and [...]
Harnessing The Power Of Twitter
The BlogHer network, a well known and highly respected community for women who blog, was recently promoted on Twitter, by Erin Vest, also known as Queenofspain on Twitter. Vest has been promoting the BlogHers Act global giving initiative, which are five projects that BlogHer has started as part of their commitment to make a [...]
Feed Poverty, Feed Your Brain
This is the stance taken by FreeRice, the sister site of Poverty.com. When you visit the site, you’re given a word, usually a very sophisticated one that you may not know off the top of your head, and all you have to do is guess the correct definition. Yup, that’s seriously it. Now signups, no donations. Just guess the correct definition.
Live Maps Can’t Find Me
I was looking for directions last night to the house that I’ll be temporarily staying it. I chose to use Google Maps first. It gave me directions and all the other things I was looking for. However, I decided to try Live Maps to see if there would be a difference in route and time. [...]
A WTF Moment
While going through my feeds in Google Reader, I came across this story from DownloadSquad (DLS)
Just because you like the internet, and have a strong desire towards email, there is no way on earth you should be able to name your child ‘@’.
That’s just what a couple in China is trying to get away with. [...]
Protect America…Yeah right
I got wind of this article through Scoble’s link list. Steven Hodson had quite a few comments on an article posted at the Threat Level blog. To quote Hodson’s response, which quotes Ryan Singel at Threat Level:
A new law expanding the government?s spying powers gives the Bush Administration a six-month window to install possibly permanent [...]
