Lately, this blog has been under a massive spam attack. I’ve been getting, on average, 24 – 36 spam comments a day — which means I also get 24 – 36 emails notifying me of spam comments in my inbox. This is a rant, and I know it’s a rant, but roll wi…
Improving the crowdsourcing process.
This week, our director did something that was typical in any organization: He sent an email and asked us to list our own accomplishments so he could compile a list for the annual report he was writing. Now this is the first year I’ve been with this group, and I was a little unsure if I […]
Push and pull.
Robin2Note: This is a blogpost I wrote–and then sat on–after watching the destruction that was danah boyd’s keynote speech at Web 2.0 Expo on Nov 17, 2009. I was horrified to watch this happen to such an amazing speaker, because I truly felt it was devastatingly undeserved. I’m publishing it now because 1) enough time […]
Connections.
In my personal twittersphere, there has been an undercurrent of dissatisfaction with being unfollowed by certain people in certain circles. Okay, specifically Brad J. Ward, a young gun who is a very focused wiz and entrepreneur. I myself have been followed by, then met in real life, then unfollowed by this guy, so I understand […]
Communication FAIL.
Last night I got home and was immediately hit with “Can I borrow the car?” from the Senior Teenager In Residence (STIR). I really didn’t mind, as the only plans I had for the care was to run it through a car wash to get some of the winter grime off now that it is […]
Policing the twitterstream.
Seriously, this is kind of creepy, and one of the reasons I am happy that my twitter feed is protected. Yesterday we discovered that State College Police Dept has joined the twittersphere as @StateCollegePD. Now they are stalking following everyone and anyone in the local area: Now, I know they’ve been on Facebook for years, […]
