So, after reading Liz’s post yesterday (and having seen Liz and Mike twittering away on their Facebook profiles), I finally signed up and am now officially all a-twitter.
This follows a semi-recent foray into Facebook, which has been spreading like crazy where I work. So after a few weeks of paying a bit of attention [...]

I think CAPTCHAs are annoying…these are the little images with characters on them that are meant to prevent spammers from automating responses to blog posts, site registrations, etc. In order to prove you’re not a machine or spammer, you need to enter these random strings you see.
Word from CNN is that CMU is working on [...]

The title and lede from an AP article on CNN.com today:

Child care linked to later behavioral issues
WASHINGTON (AP) — The more time that children spent in child care, the more likely their sixth-grade teachers were to report problem behavior.

Meanwhile, buried in grafs 5 and 10:

The researchers said that the increase in vocabulary and problem [...]

MSNBC picks up on a great quote in a recent Politico.com article.
In a similar “the times they are a-changin’ ” vein, the LA Times credits a blog — Talking Points Memo — with driving the US attorneys purge story that led to one of these rounds of subpoenas.

Looks like I’m Time’s person of the year. And you are too!

From CNN:
After a firestorm of criticism, News. Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and television special “If I Did It.”
“I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman.
Gee Rupert, do ya think?!?

From CNN:
A British man said to have carried out the country’s first “Web rage” attack was jailed for 2-1/2 years on Friday for assaulting a man with whom he had exchanged insults over the Internet.
Boy, I can’t wait until Internet access in cars is prevalent.

Is it just me, or is anyone else annoyed by seeing the same article a gazillion times in a blog’s RSS feed…often without any clue as to what changed. I’ve just unsubscribed to MyDD after less than a week because that seems pretty rampant there. And there’s a diarist on Daily Kos whose [...]

When I saw the title — Government study: Internet 1 percent porn — I thought, gee just 1 percent?
Then I remembered blogging this, and realized that meant one million porn sites.
That’s a lotta porn. But maybe there’s an upside?