Ollie, circa 1992, downtown Eau Claire, WI. This a photo of me. My friend Ryan Zepaltas sent it after he found it in his museum (garage) – I think he took the photo. It reminded me that I used to know how to ollie. Those were fun times. Just yesterday, I was teaching my 8-year-old

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Twitter says I am Following ZERO and being FOLLOWED by ZERO. Obviously a bug. If it had just stated FOLLOWED by ZERO, well, that would make sense. UPDATE via pencilthin: me too. probably has something ot do with this: How to Force Anyone to Follow You on Twitter

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Happy Mother’s Day Breakfast in Bed Today The three boys all helped make pancakes for mom this morning. This year, I remembered NOT to take pictures of the boys delivering the breakfast in bed to mom. As cute as it is, Mom didn’t dig that last time. This year, I decided to just take this photo.

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So let me repeat: In Facebook, we get to create our publics. In Twitter, we decide which publics to join. But neither is the public sphere; neither entails publishing to everyone. Yet Facebook is pushing us more and more to publish to everyone and when it does, we lose control of our publics. That, I

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