Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.

Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.: "was born out of the idea that email and instant messaging, as successful as they still are, were both created a very long time ago. We now have a much more robust web full of content and brimming with a desire to share stuff. Or as Lars Rasumussen put it, “Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.”"

The New Traditional Church: Web Strategy | TonyMorganLive.com

The New Traditional Church: Web Strategy TonyMorganLive.com: "The website isn’t something the “web monkey” maintains. It’s a place where the youth pastor, worship leader, children’s director, small group leader, senior pastor and every other person of influence help people to connect and grow. It’s an environment where the entire church engages the community and encourages each other to take their next steps. It’s as much their story as it is our story."

BAUER: An ideological choice - Washington Times

BAUER: An ideological choice - Washington Times: "'There are some who believe that the president, having won the election, should have the complete authority to appoint his nominee.... I disagree with this view. I believe firmly that the Constitution calls for the Senate to advise and consent. I believe that it calls for meaningful advice and consent that includes an examination of a judge's philosophy, ideology, and record.' Republican senators should heed Mr. Obama's advice."

Ketan’s Musings / Java and Unicode monday morning blues

Ketan’s Musings / Java and Unicode monday morning blues: "The hidden gem seemed to be the -encoding java compiler flag. Setting it to UTF-8 fixed the problem."

Farm Fresh To You

Farm Fresh To You: "Wilted Greens
Wilted greens and lettuce are often just dried out which can still occur even if the greens remain in constant refrigeration.


Cold Water Overnight
Submerge the wilted greens in cold water by placing them in a dish, filling it with water, and putting it in the refrigerator overnight."

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life: "I can imagine Wolfram Alpha eventually growing to satisfy a lot of the sorts of queries I go to Wikipedia today to get answers to and doing so in a more authoritative manner. In that case, it would become my “facts and trivia” search engine. However there are currently too many gaps in its knowledge of commercial products (e.g. search for “ipod” results in a coming soon notice) and people (e.g. the Jim Carrey entry is amazingly brief yet still manages to have a factually inaccuracy) to make it a true replacement for wikipedia. That said, the service shows great promise and it will be interesting watching as it evolves."

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Are you building an application that people use every day or do you just think you are?

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Are you building an application that people use every day or do you just think you are?: "A number of services I use online could learn from how Facebook has evolved their experience over time increase the engagement of their user base by making sometimes small and sometimes huge changes to the user experience to encourage people to make the service a regular part of their lives."

HOW TO: Simplify Your Social Media Routine

HOW TO: Simplify Your Social Media Routine: "My setup uses Gmail(), as it’s the communication tool that I use most often. I’ve set it up to be my all-in-one inbox: I can Twitter, Facebook, delicious, Flickr(), IM and more. You can make Gmail your ultimate productivity center."

VeggieTales To Release a New Minnesota Cuke Adventure in August

VeggieTales To Release a New Minnesota Cuke Adventure in August: "Now, four years later, we will soon be seeing Minnesota Cuke again as he searches for Noah's Umbrella and learns about confidence. Inspired by the beloved Bible story of Noah’s ark, VeggieTales: Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah’s Umbrella will come out just in time to help youngsters get ready for a new school year."

Does WalMart Have the Right Idea? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

Does WalMart Have the Right Idea? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com: "a successful unionization vote significantly decreases the market value of the company"

Layoff Tracker: Perot Systems layoffs 450

Layoff Tracker: Perot Systems layoffs 450: "Perot Systems said it is mitigating its lower project-based revenue with a layoff of 450 employees. The work force reduction is expected to save $30 million annually, once fully implementyed by the third quarter."

Genea-Musings: Footnote Pages on Facebook - Great idea!

Genea-Musings: Footnote Pages on Facebook - Great idea!: "Now all we need is a GEDCOM upload to both Footnote.com and Facebook for our family tree databases - and have them find a way to automatically create thousands of Facebook and Footnote Pages about our family members."

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: What You Inherited from Your Ancestors: Rotator Cuff Disease

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: What You Inherited from Your Ancestors: Rotator Cuff Disease: "We analyzed a set of patients with diagnosed rotator cuff disease and a known genealogy to describe the familial clustering of affected individuals. The observations of significant excess relatedness of patients and the significantly elevated risks to both close and distant relatives of patients strongly support a heritable predisposition to rotator cuff disease."

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: National Archives Recalls Flu Pandemic of 1918

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: National Archives Recalls Flu Pandemic of 1918: "True or False?
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people than died in World War I.
Hard as it is to believe, the answer is true.
World War I claimed an estimated 16 million lives. The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history."

40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them

40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them: "We all know brands are using TwitterTwitter reviews — whether or not you want them around. Some of them don’t quite get the medium and just tweet self-serving links or marketing speak, but you won’t find any of those brands here. We’ve handpicked 40 of the best brands experimenting with the micro-blogging platform, and asked them a few short questions about how they’re using Twitter."

Managing Twitter Accounts for Companies

Managing Twitter Accounts for Companies: "I decided to do a brief round up of some best practices when managing the Twitter account for a company. There are companies that entrust their Twitter activities to a team of people, especially when updates need to be timely (a news organization, for example). But because Twitter is a conversation, you have to be careful with the whole concept of “ghostwriting,” and extra careful with the company’s image. Once you tarnish that, it’s a struggle to rid them of the stain."

Obama orders review of New York City flyover - WRIC Richmond News and Weather -

Obama orders review of New York City flyover - WRIC Richmond News and Weather -: "President Barack Obama has ordered an internal review to determine how the decision was made to send of 1 of his official airplanes on a low-flying photo op past the New York City skyline."

Liberty prof dies after being hit by baseball - NBC12 News, Weather Sports, Traffic, and Programming Guide for Richmond, VA |

Liberty prof dies after being hit by baseball - NBC12 News, Weather Sports, Traffic, and Programming Guide for Richmond, VA : "Eccles said Jeff Taylor Sr. was hit in the lower jaw or neck by a line drive while pitching to a Lynchburg College baseball player, who wasn't identified."

What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6 | Webware - CNET

What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6 Webware - CNET: "Welcome to the wonderful world of enterprise browser adoption. While the tech press spends a lot of time talking about Web 2.0 and even 3.0, Corporate America is on Web 0.5."

Confessions of a Pastor: A Little Less Conversation and a Little More Action Please

Confessions of a Pastor: A Little Less Conversation and a Little More Action Please: "The greatest loss of perspective is that we have learned to view those who are lost around us with indifference and detachment. While they perish, we play. While they die without Christ, we live without telling them. Nothing is more real than hell, but one wouldn’t know that by the way most Christians live."