Monthly Archives: September 2007

Social Network Tips from Carson McCullers

I just finished The Member of the Wedding, a 1946 novel by Carson McCullers. It was a pearl of a book, the story of Frankie Jasmine Addams, a young girl coming of age with the help of Berenice, her wise … Continue reading

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Denver Imagines Cultural Center in a Digital Age

Denver’s municipal Channel 8 did a great job filming my presentation on September 17th at the University of Denver’s Cable Center. If you click here and have the right software, you may be able to play the entire talk. It … Continue reading

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Down East Features RV Videos on How NOT to Find Peak Foliage

Down East Online has done a wonderful job displaying seven of the videos I created a year ago when Darlene and I rented a motorhome for a six-week Fall Foliage Ramble through New England. Lorie Costigan, online content developer for … Continue reading

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Mr. Rogers Goes to Washington

This is an amazing video of Fred Rogers testifying before Congress in support of the Public Broadcasting budget on May 1, 1969. He softens a very tough Rhode Island Senator whom I remember from my days in the Ocean State, … Continue reading

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Two New Quilts from Darlene’s Studio

Darlene has been busy on the other side of the condo since we returned to Denver from Cambridge. Today she finished two quilts with her trademark bright colors and zest. I love the mess of fabric and quilting paraphernalia in … Continue reading

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Two Impressive Young Podcasters

I stumbled upon two talented young podcasters this evening. Nicholas Montgomery is 12, and Daniel Brusilovsky is 14. Via Twitter, Nicholas invited me to appear on his live audio podcast tonight, but I arrived too late to have a speaking … Continue reading

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The Twitter Rx: Social Networks Get Personal

My mother is running out of Cylert, a drug manufactured by Abbott Laboratories until it was removed from the market by the FDA in October, 2005. Cylert, whose generic version is pemoline, was mainly prescribed for kids with attention deficit … Continue reading

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Twitter Still on Operating Table

Last night Twitter warned us it would be “on the operating table” for 2.5 hours starting at midnight. So it should have been in the recovery room five hours ago. Instead, I’m getting the above message. I hope nothing went … Continue reading

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Mark Forman Makes Connections from Taiwan

I met Mark Forman in a UStream chat room when I was experimenting with live video in April of this year, and since then we keep running into each other on the Internet, mainly via Twitter and Facebook. He included … Continue reading

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