November 2007

You should be aware.

Here’s a New York Times article so you can get the background story.

If you are not a fan of this kind of approach to privacy at Facebook, check out this message from Moveon.org and sign the petition if you don’t agree with Facebook.

From Moveon.org site:

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When you buy a book or movie online–or make a political contribution–do you want that information automatically shared with the world on Facebook? Most people would call that a huge invasion of privacy. But social networking site Facebook began doing just that. People across the country saw private purchases they made on other sites displayed publicly to everyone they know on Facebook. Why? To benefit corporate advertisers. Other sites are looking at Facebook’s example to see if they can get away with similar privacy breaches. We need to draw a line in the sand–making clear that the wish lists of corporate advertisers must not come before the basic privacy rights of Internet users.

Let’s get Facebook to stop invading our privacy. Sign the petition.

Then join the Facebook group “Facebook, stop invading my privacy!” and tell your friends.
“

So it’s a good day to start a new job. On a Thursday. The week is in full swing, almost winding down. You can get a feel for the place, but you don’t have the whole week in front of you. There is time to adjust and reflect over a weekend. It’s a big adjustment because I’ve been out of an office and at home for three years. But it turns out, it’s good for me to be around people too.

In homage to the first day of school pics my mom always took of me, I asked Thomas to oblige.

Note the EG brand colors incorporated into the ensemble.

This blog post dedicated to Amy and Livia because they asked.

As I’m looking backward one last time, I just have to share my first day at Sun picture. I sure do change my hair a lot.

This picture was taken on November 15th, 2004.

todo

send emails
have meetings
delete user on computer
pack it all up and go to fedex

done and done

another phase of my life begins and ends

My husband sent me a link to the Star Tribune web site, 13 Seconds in August, the 35w Bridge collapse. It’s the top story on the site today.

I think this is a well formed work of journalism for the new century. It informs the public, it tells an amazing story and the part that really makes it a 21st century approach is providing a mechanism for survivors to add detail to the story. Everyone in MN and probably the country felt this tragedy in a visceral way. To provide an extension of the information and present it to the public as a work in progress is brave and valuable. This is a nice example of evolveing journalism for today — thanks Star Tribune.

Amy took awesome photos for the Skullcranes new album. Dan was inspired by learning about the lasso tool and made a collage with one of her pics.

or your work will consume you…… -Hal Hartley

If you work for a global company and you call HR, should you really be hearing ‘Silent Night’ on the hold music? Ah, the overlooked details in life, it’s staggering.

Recently my friend Mahtab and I shared a memory. We were reminded of her 30th birthday in Baltimore. We were both attending the IA Summit and it happened to also be her birthday weekend, so we went out for her favorite, Indian Food.

We found a wonderful little restaurant just down the street from our hotel. I found these pics and thought I’d post for her in honor of the memory. Enjoy the memory, Mahtab.

I’m a very lucky person because I am surrounded with amazing people that I have the honor to call friends. Three of them are featured below. Leslie, Mollie and Caleb are the Misty Mountain Misfits and they rock.