RT @stevegarfield: Off On A Tangent: Breaking: Twitter Breaks Tweets with URL Shortener

RT @thedailyswarm: Stereogum's Downloadable Top 40 of 2010...

HONK! Photo Exhibit Opens This Saturday, Sept. 4, in Davis Square

From my mobile phone with #qik

From my mobile phone with #qik

Tuning up (Run On Sentence)

@randomdeanna Don't know why I couldn't find via phone. Here's mom:

Thinking about launching a news project? Sign up for @buzzmachine's entrepreneurial journalism class

Listening to a great @sparkcbc podcast about following strangers on twitter.

Only Zionists may espouse Nazi-style quack science theories about Jews

Why Drupal Should Fear WordPress (via @churchcrunch)

Arcade Fire’s Experimental New Video Shows What’s Possible with HTML5 -

A Twittering of Poets (Exquisite Corpse)

join us! @PRNewsonline -Johna Burke, Tim Marklein and Danielle Brigida on measuring ROI for digital PR #prnews10

RT @sciam: To celebrate our 165th anniv, Scientific American is offering 1845 prices on subscriptions! (via @jranck)

RT @sciam: To celebrate our 165th anniv, Scientific American is offering 1845 prices on subscriptions! (via @jranck)

John Lennon on cover debut issue @RollingStone Nov 9, 1967

Option valuation, contraceptive sponges, and Seinfeld: (pdf) #economics

The Best Coverage of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally

Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid” by @hunterwalk

6 Things Your Body Does Every Day That #Science Can't Explain (Cracked) #Biology RT @Flipbooks

Xkcd book now available on amazon. 30% off. Self pub to mainstream.

I uploaded a YouTube video -- Politician - Aloe Blacc

5 Reasons Why No One is Reading your Enewsletter -

How MLK fits into Glenn Beck's chalkboard #p2 #tcot

Does your MacBook burn your legs? Does the every running fan give you a headache? Take control of the fans using smcFanControl, an amazing free little utility.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in Twitter chat series #socialmedia.   It’s been a one-hour  weekly chat on Twitter for the past 10 months  organized and hosted by Marc Meyer and Jason Breed.     The way it works is they invite a “host” to ask 3 compelling questions, 20 minutes each, that revolve around a topical subject within the business of social media, but that play to their strengths or backgrounds.

Over the past few months, I have been slowly putting together a series on the new Google Bike-There Feature, which was released in March of 2010.  Part I of the series reviewed the overall application, how it works, and some of its advantages and disadvantages.  Part II discussed various online options for mapping bike routes and then reviewed one option, Open Street Map, in greater depth in order to compare and contrast it with Google’s Bike-There.  The third piece in the series will compare and contrast Google’s Bike-There with Ride the City, an online bike route mapping application that thinks like a cyclist in order to avoid busy roads and other cycling-unfriendly situations.  Additional posts in the series will involve a series of test-runs using the various applications.

Do You:

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Over the past several years private-prison companies Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the Geo Group, through their work as members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and through their ties to the Arizona Legislature and the office of Gov. Jan Brewer, have had ample opportunity—and obvious intent—to ensure the passage of S.B. 1070.

Resounding documentary proof that the original reasoning behind secession and subsequent myth-making was in defense of slavery and white supremacy

Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two-thirds of Americans--including most history teachers--think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights." This error persists because most have never read the key documents about the Confederacy.

The 150th anniversary of secession and civil war provides a moment for all Americans to read these documents, properly set in context by award-winning sociologist and historian James W. Loewen and coeditor Edward H. Sebesta, to put in perspective the mythology of the Old South.

The other day, Klint Finley wrote a very good walkthrough of using the new Multisite functionality of WordPress 3.0. In the comments, a lot of people wanted to know how to use your own domain names. Since I’m doing that now, here’s a quick walkthrough/how-to guide.

The first section of the new documentary NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM, from filmmakers Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano, is so gut-wrenchingly sorrowful that it's an oddly mixed blessing when, as the movie prog-
resses, it becomes both easier to take and less effective. This may have more to do with the way in which events have played themselves out over the 46 years since the original murders around which the film is organized than with the skill of the filmmakers themselves. Still, had Dickoff and Pagano been able to maintain the passion and immediacy of their first third, they might have ended up with one of the most powerful, ground-breaking documentaries of modern times. (Or perhaps one so upsetting that viewers would squirm and head for an early exit.)

In 1964 when she was only 17, Micki Dickoff asked her father if she could go to Mississippi to work with the volunteers  of  Freedom Summer, registering black voters. Her father, a Mississippi native, refused to allow her to go. His was the only Jewish family in a small Mississippi town, and he feared what she would find there. Not long after, his worst fears were confirmed when three of the volunteers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local Klansmen, all of them deputy sheriffs of Neshoba County. 

MONTEREY — The biggest moment in Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s life has nothing to do with politics.

It wasn’t even the births of his children or marrying his wife that topped the list.

“When I was asked what the single most important moment in my life was during a debate, I smiled to myself,” Jindal told the full sanctuary at Lismore Baptist Church in Monterey. “I didn’t even have to think about it. It was the moment I found Jesus Christ. I should change that to say the moment He found me, because I was the one that was lost.”

Attorney General Eric Holder is circulating in Congress his second report on the Justice Department’s efforts to solve 109 murder cases in the South during the 1950s and ’60s that appear to have been racially motivated. What began as a Justice Department initiative in 2006 to investigate cold cases gained congressional weight when the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act became law in 2008.