Archive for September, 2007

A post today by Jeff Pulver, “The Social Media Community Shares Ideas about Social Identity“, on Pulver.com, started me thinking about my “personal branding”.
As he explains in an earlier post (see “It’s a Social Media World Outside…“), Jeff believes that the way you represent yourself on social networking sites such as Facebook is as important [...]

John Skidgel, Paul McDonald, and Lev Epshteyn used Google Mashup Editor to create Campaign Trails, a clever digest of the blog posts by the US presidential candidates.
And two shakes of the “it ain’t 1980 no more” stick to the candidates who don’t have a blog (or have a blog but disabled feeds!): Rudolph W. Giuliani, [...]

Students in Joppatowne HS Homeland Security classPhoto from the Raw Feed

In August, Joppatowne High School in Joppa, MD, reportedly became the first public school in the US to offer students vocational training for a “homeland security career path”.
Officially called the “Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness core”, the classes are designed to meet the needs of [...]

WordPress 2.3 is was released earlier today and is ready for download at the WordPress website.
Here are the highlights of the new version, named “Dextor” for the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon:

Tagging is now built into WordPress; tags entered with existing non-WordPress plugins may be imported into the native tagging system.
WordPress now will notify you [...]