Originally published at Champagne and Socks. You can comment here or there.

I’ve been trying to develop a particular topic/theme as Pet Topic for Galactic Suburbia for over a month now and it just hasn’t worked out. It needs a lot of research and a lot of thinking and I just haven’t had time to prep it for any of our recent episodes. It is though ( Read more... )

Another hat I wear is Executive Editor over at the review site ASif!. In this role, I get posted review copies by publishers requesting reviews of upcoming books, I sort out the assignments amongst the reviewers (reviewers choose their own books and they manage their own workloads) and I mail the books out to them. I like to see all the books ( Read more... )

As a result of the whole fb v twitter discussion, a bunch of us have taken up tweetdeck which enables you to get feeds of both twitter and facebook into the one window. I quite like it, I think, now that I have gotten a handle on it. You can post your status updates from there and see comments and retweets and so on ( Read more... )

So my post from yesterday generated a lot of discussion and thoughts about a few things. Probably I could have expressed myself more clearly as there were several issues that got tied up together ( Read more... )

This rant has been a while in coming. I think my feelings on the subject have been heightened after spending 2 weeks at home and therefore much more time on the computer and social media sites ( Read more... )