Stop friending drum corps people. Start friending fellow political activists.

Every time I get involved enough with a group online, I either get run off or made a leader. As I wrote in No, I am not born to be "prime minister."

I keep being selected as a leader in online communities. One of my offices is Friendly Neighborhood Vote Wrangler, which is described as a dictator--not that I ever ran it that way. Instead, I ran it ( Read more... )

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I have other things I want to blog about, but I'm still collapsing from the end of the semester, including submitting grades, so I'll post some videos instead.

First up, Wikileaks.

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WikiLeaks continues to release documents of global importance but the world is focused instead on the sex life of the Web site's frontman Julian Assange, whose ( Read more... )

Below crossposted to coffeepartyusa  here. Also posted to Daily Kos and to Join The Coffee Party Movement's Wall. Any of you who are registered at either location feel free to rec the diary or like the link.


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darksumomo got ready to go to work, pulled out of his driveway, heard how bad driving conditions were, and decided to call work. No answer. Circled the block and came home to check the college's website. Classes cancelled. Snow day!

Today, I reached and exceeded follower milestones on both Facebook and Twitter. On Facebook, I passed 300 friends. I now have 301. On Twitter, I passed 200 followers. For a brief time, I had 205 followers. Four of them were porn spambots, which I promptly reported for spam and blocked. I now have 201 followers ( Read more... )

University of Southern California: Writing Class Takes on Cyberbullying
Led by USC College's Mark Marino, students in one Writing 340 course have created @Wall Watch, a project that provides reference tools and support for victims of cyberbullying.By Skye McIlvaine-Jones ( Read more... )

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In response to a post in OTF_wank on JournalFen about how the former mod of learn_french used the excuse of being in the Deep South, and thus out of internet contact, for not cleaning the spam out of her community, wankprophet  posted this gem.

Well, I've watched "True Blood" and not once have I ever seen Sookie update her Facebook status to "Am a-fixin' to do somethin' ( Read more... )