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Elvira's Roundabout : Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:59:56 +0000

Merry Christmas!

Red State Progressive : Fox and MSNBC: Keeping Us Agitated

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:17:14 +0000

Today, I wrote a similar post from a slightly broader perspective, so I'm very interested to find your post. If you get a chance, stop by and read You are What You Eat; the Cortisol Addiction http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/4046 and let me know your thoughts.

Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology : Valentine\'s Day for Parents of Teens

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:31:16 +0000

My wife and I always have duck on Valentine's day, along with a nice cocktail and a nice desert. The kids are part of the celebration. Typically, we give them sparkling sweet cider. Perhaps our romance isn't as steamy as it was before kids, but it is still strong and I think it is important to demonstrate a healthy relationship to our children

Man Over Board : All Because You Gave Aunt Betsy Your Spinach Recipe.

Mon, 4 Jan 2010 13:51:25 +0000

Glenn, Yet again, another good post, and thanks for mentioning me in your comments.I think a good way to think of social media is this. If you write something important, you want to tell your friends about it. Social media is how you tell your friends about something important you've written on your blog. One way of looking at it is that you want to speak with your friends where they are, on Facebook or Twitter for example. Another approach is to blanket the town. I tend to go with this second approach in an effort to reach new people. With that, let me point out a few tools that I really like. First, I like to get as much of this automated as possible. I use TwitterFeed to subscribe to the RSS feed for my blog and post Tweets on Twitter about it. FriendFeed and Facebook both subscribe to my TwitterFeed, so it gets repeated there. For special situations, I like to send messages via ping.fm Ping sends the same message to a bunch of social networking sites all at the same time. I only use it from time to time because I don't want to overwhelm people with messages. One final site that I like to recommend is Dandyid. Dandyid gives you the ability to list many of your social media sites, and makes it easier for others to find different sites they have in common with you. You can check out my DandyID at http://www.dandyid.org/users/ahynes1 Aldon My recent post This Week In Woodbridge

Recycled Frockery : 10 Day Countdown of Alternative Gifts

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:40:19 +0000

This is a great list. I believe that a couple of years ago, my wife adopted a shark for her brother similar to the octopus that you mention adopting. I hope my brother's shark hasn't eaten any adopted octopus

As to CSA farms, that is a great idea. We get our fruit and vegetables from a CSA farm and I am a BIG supporter of CSA farms. I hope that if people don't get CSA subscriptions for their friends for the holidays, they at least check out CSA farms and see about getting their own fruit and vegetables from CSA farms.

the way i see it : EntreCard Acquired by ZipRunner

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:26:49 +0000

I was off on vacation when this happened. I'm back for a few days, but then heading out again. Personally, I'm not expecting much, either good, nor bad from the change. I'll just keep using EC as long as it links me to interesting sites and brings me interesting traffic, and when that stops, I'll move on.

the way i see it : Public or Private - Does it affect your writing?

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 18:50:23 +0000

I have many reactions to this. I am very aware of my audience. My wife reads my blog regularly, as does my brother. I have it linked to Facebook so many of my friends read it there. I try to always respect confidentiality and privacy of the people I am writing about. I encourage everyone to check the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics for some useful thoughts on this, even if you don't consider yourself a journalist or aren't writing professionally. http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp All of this said, I like to write, as much as possible about what is personal and relate it back to the world around me. I believe it was Tip O'Neill that said all politics is local. Given how connected we are with people around the world these days through the Internet, a better formulation might be, all politics is personal. I find that E.B. White is a writer that has greatly affected my thoughts about my own writing. He wrote many great essays from a saltwater farm in Maine in which he related his experiences on the farm to the events of the world. I wish I could write like that. Yet, perhaps, the most important aspect for me about writing on a blog is this: In a writing course I took years ago, the professor spoke about the true writers that write because they must. Not because they have something important they want to say, or because it will earn them a living or perhaps even fame and recognition, but simply because they must write. I am no great writer, but that sense of writing because I must, balanced with a desire to respect others privacy and confidentiality help shape what I write.

Connecticut News, Weather and Traffic | WTNH.com : Lawmakers vote to end death penalty | WTNH.com

Fri, 22 May 2009 11:59:29 +0000

You will note that in my post, I spoke about being an Episcopalian. I am glad to hear that Pope John Paul II spoke out frequently against the death penalty. I hope Catholics in Connecticut will similarly speak out at this important time. While many believe that there are issues of greater moral priority than the repeal of the death penalty, that should not be used as an excuse for inaction.

Connecticut News, Weather and Traffic | WTNH.com : Lawmakers vote to end death penalty | WTNH.com

Fri, 22 May 2009 11:33:39 +0000

It seems as if the Church is very eager to rally against marriage equality, or against provisions to make it easier to hold church officials accountable for misdoings, but when it comes to the Death Penalty, we don’t hear much from the church. Like Gov. Rell, I’m an Episcopalian, so I’ll refer to our church’s position on the Death Penalty. In 1988, the Lambeth Conference passed Resolution 33, which “Urges the Church to speak out against…all governments who practice capital punishment”. Gov. Rell should respect the position of the church on this issue and sign the bill repealing the Death Penalty.

BadGalsRadio - RootsRock since 99' : ENTRESTRIKE !!! It's ON - FRIDAY April 10th IS NO Drop DAY

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:53:07 +0000

I haven't decided for sure if I'll join the strike tomorrow. However, from an advertising perspective, I don't want to be running ads when a strike is on, so I pulled all my ads for tomorrow. I will be surfing using BlogExplosion and Adgitize tomorrow. I may surf off of MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog. I'll also probably get some time to do a little more coding on a smart surfing app that I want to build. Oh, and for those who aren't on adgitize yet, I highly recommend it. It is another blogger oriented advertising network, similar to EntreCard, but done much better: http://www.adgitize.com/?affid=342

Recycled Frockery : ENTRESTRIKE !!! FRIDAY April 10th NO Drop DAY

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:38:09 +0000

I haven't decided if I'll join the strike tomorrow. However, if people are striking, it seems like a good day not to run any ads. Normally, I run a lot of ads, but I'm canceling the ads I've placed for Friday. You might consider doing the same. That said, I will be clicking on Adgitize and CMF Ads. If you haven't checked out Adgitize, I highly recommend it. http://www.adgitize.com/?affid=342

Willem's Personal Blog : More on (bar)codes...

Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:40:11 +0000

Yup. Good blog post. I looked at MS Tag for a little bit, found it didn't work with my phone either and decided I'd look at it again sometime down the road.

Willem's Personal Blog : Barcodes on Blogs.

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:34:13 +0000

Have you looked at Microsoft Tag? It is their effort to get into the 2d barcode game. In their case, they are using multicolored tags. So far, I can't read either QR codes or Microsoft tags from my cellphone, so I'm still holding off a little

Willem's Personal Blog : Web 4.0, Another Definition.

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:33:37 +0000

I think Carol makes a very important point. As a simple example, I have my cellphone set up so that when I take a picture, I can send it directly to Flickr, Facebook, my wife, and several other places in a single message. Many of my less geeky friends view this as bordering on magic, until I show them how easy it is to do this. (I do something similar with video, and also blog from my cellphone from time to time). It used to be said that people only use 10% of their brains. As we've come to understand how the brain works, this is pretty much discredited. However, I do believe that many people only use 10% of their available technology. Rather than spending a lot of time on Web 4.0 or IPv6, I think we need to help a lot of people move to Web 2.9

... : Should Obama investigate the Bush Administration?

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:47:53 +0000

While I believe there are some serious issues that need investigation, I also believe that our country needs healing. With that, my thought is that we might be better off with a truth and reconciliation commission, similar to what South Africa had. I wrote a blog post about this a while ago http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/3281 which really got some conservatives upset. Perhaps they don't like truth.

Willem's Personal Blog : Web 4.0, Another Definition.

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:46:07 +0000

I'm not a big fan on the 2.0, 3.0 3D, 4.0 etc definitions of the web, but you raise some interesting ideas. One thing that is necessary for your vision of Web 4.0 to happen is for people to move over to IPv6 We are running out of IPv4 style addresses and probably the only reason we haven't run out yet is because of the vast amounts of Network Address Translation being done by firewalls right now. However, this makes it harder to access all those devices inside the home. I've got IPv6 up and running nicely on my home network with an IPv6 gateway up and running. I'd love to hear experiences of other people experimenting with IPv6

Willem's Personal Blog : Twittastic or not?

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:22:52 +0000

As of the writing of this post, I'm over 1500 followers. I was at over 1600, but many were spammers, and Twitter just cleaned out a lot of spammers. I haven't used Tweetdeck. Instead I've been using PeopleBrowsr.com It also does some nice organizing of people. I use TwitterFeed to make sure my blog posts show up on Twitter. I use ping.fm to get my messages to Twitter and a bunch of other sites. I link Twitter to Facebook. And, I've been using Twitter for over two years. All of that has helped my build a bigger audience. Beyond that, I try to get connected to a lot of different types of audiences, tweeting often and acting as a connector. Just a few thoughts. More followers are always welcome, http://twitter.com/ahynes1

Willem's Personal Blog : Dataportability: a Comment I Made...

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:13:42 +0000

A couple quick comments, all of the big players are moving to support OpenID. Yahoo already does it fairly nicely, Microsoft has it in beta testing and Google has a weird implementation of OpenID. Facebook would be wise to climb on the OpenID bandwagon. Yet there is much more to data portability than simply login information. You should be able to port our friends lists (like FOAF and XFN allows), your profile information, some of which can be done with OpenID, but there are also a lot of other standards for.

Coffee With Allan Cockerill… - Allan Cockerill writes… : Which Way For Twitter Now

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:08:58 +0000

Well, I use Twitter, Plurk, FriendFeed, Pownce, Jaikuy,Tumblr and others. Now, I'm playing with identi.ca I'm not one for a boycott. I simply use what is working, interesting, and where the crowds are.

I do think you should keep a close eye on identi.ca Since it is open source people are starting to set up their own servers. I wrote about it here:

http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/3051