Well here’s something I bet you didn’t know.
The White House doesn’t have an email address. We’re trying to mobilize something for the Main Street Brigade, letting users send Obama an electronic post card on an issue. And I’ve run into a glitch in executing it.
It seems the White House doesn’t want email.
Now this is an American tradition. If we don’t like something, it used to be we’d flood them with letters. Just to remind them of who they work for. Then phone calls. Then it was faxes.
So now shouldn’t it logically be email? read more
Monthly Archives: August 2010
email your leaders?
August 31, 2010 – 7:21 pm
How to lose friends and clients
August 31, 2010 – 1:39 pm
I wish I had the courage to leave Facebook. But I don’t. I’m too afraid I’ll miss something.
But I’m having a really unfortunate realization on Facebook. I’m realizing that I don’t like my friends that much.
Well no, I like my real friends. One in particular — Marshall — probably keeps me on Facebook all by himself, as he posts things that are honestly really interesting. And Doug posts real tips on social media.
But I have “friends of friends” — lots of them — who ended up on my friends list because either I or they figured that because we have 48 mutual friends we must be friends by definition. Or people who read me on the Huffington Post or found me on thecommunity.com or here, and decide to add me to the list of people they like to track. Some people I “friend” because I really like or admire something they do. read more
A moment in the dark side
August 31, 2010 – 1:26 pm
I destroyed my web site last night.
Over the last week or so I have been playing around with a color combination I liked. Put it up on the site and surveyed a few friends. Enough of them didn’t like it that I was taking it down. Thought I’d take a new approach.
I uploaded a bunch of new php files to the site and activated them.
The whole site went blank. After many attempts to fix, it just sat there staring at me accusatorily, blank. read more