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Is choice enough? AmericansElect.org and the accountability question
Americans Elect is an interesting new political venture.Americans Elect is the first-ever open nominating process. We're using the Internet to give every single voter—Democrat, Republican or...
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How is "great content" found?
In a provocative assessment of Google’s Google+ strategy of launching a “recommended users” list (a topic of its own), Robert Scoble shared an assumption behind his conclusions:If you have great...
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Hat brain
Do you ever get hat hair? You know, what happens when you've been wearing a hat or visor and you take it off and your hair is all dented and messed up?I get hat brain. It comes from having to change...
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The theming firehose (NB for designers & front-end developers new to Drupal)
You theme with the mark-up you have, not the mark-up you'd like to have.That's the essential truth that designers and front-end developers new to Drupal need to understand. You don't get to construct...
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Samsung or iPhone? A screenshot worth a thousand tweets
(Okay, maybe not a thousand. But a lot!)So last night, I saw that John Gruber had favorited one of my Flickr photos from 2008: a screenshot of the Google Maps app on the iPhone. Hmm, what was that...
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Crying lessons
I need crying lessons. I don't know how to cry. I don't cry like the doyennes in the movies. My cries are blubbery, snotty, croaky things. I gag and cough. My blood presses against my head. My face...
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Death
This is a post about death and dying. "There's nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along."•I didn't plan on looking at the body, but when my sister and mother did, I had to.It wasn't him. He...
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Following the example of people I admire, I offer this disclosure statement regarding my blogging on rare pattern:
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responsive pattern
It was 2001 when I first started blogging. It would be a few years before I heard the word "blog", so maybe my early endeavor in online journaling wouldn't count for purists, but I was journaling...
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Recovering contrib Image module's content in upgrade to Drupal 7
Once upon a time in the Drupalsphere, there was the Image module, which was the preferred image solution for all Drupal sites. It dynamically resized images for display, so you could upload one image...
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7 essential elements to create amazing top 7 lists!
7 essential elements to create amazing top 7 lists!In my years as an interwebs information consumer, I've gleaned great insight into one of the mainstays of online content: The top (n) list.Here are...
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Regarding myself
Okay, so I have to say something about silly things people say, like "myself".Joe, Nancy and myself drove to the store.Doesn't that just sound weird? Yet I year people say crap like this all the time....
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Why I'm voting for whom I'm voting for in the Drupal Association election
For those who don't know: I served on the DA Board in 2010-2011, and was on the Governance Committee that developed the new structures. Before that I was in the General Assembly. I'm currently on the...
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"Binge viewing"? It's called "watching"
When Netflix published the entire first season of the Americanized “House of Cards”, it was considered a radical act. Netflix has recognized how people recently have been “indulging” in “binge viewing”...
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The view from space
This video struck me in a profound way.OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.Only a few hundred people have been in space, but they share an experience that changed them, changed how they see the...
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Delivered overnight to your doorstep: Boxes, boxes and more boxes!
I confess, I’ve been sucked into the Amazon Subscribe and Save program. I hate having to battle parking lots and fight the crowds at Target just to buy toilet paper and tissues. It’s so much easier to...
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Second screen
It's not that we need a second screen, it's that we have an inadequate first screen.If we're watching a great movie, we're engrossed, swept away. We're not even thinking about the phone in the pocket...
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Piggies for tomorrow
Piggies are for saving!My piggy is Instapaper, Pinboard and Evernote, where I bookmark all the things that my ADD head says, “Oh I’ll want to read this later.” But when does later come? I think it’s...
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Nebula reading
If you're a science fiction fan like I am, here's a new reading list. NovelWinner: Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Nominees:We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler...
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Mahlerficent occasion
MahlerficentLast night, on impulse from a friend’s suggestion, I had the immense pleasure of attending the main concert for this year’s MalherFest. Historically I haven’t been the biggest Mahler...
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