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Geek Briefs link to Woopra.

We’re not a “top level blog” but we like the pure cheerfulness of Cali.

I was listening to an intelligent conversation regarding the evolution of the internet and the methods of communication now used to convey news to people. One of the younger members of the conversation remarked that he had never read a movie or watches TV. There is too much on the net to worry about the “canned fish” that gets served up on TV.

He didn’t say network TV, he said TV. He would rather have the personal interaction with the world that he has on places like Twitter, Facebook or places like qik.com and Friendfeed.
Is this where the geek inherit the earth? Or, was it the survival of the geekest?

I just encountered by first blocked Twitterer, Steve in the UK.

It says on his Twitter page.

No thank you Steve
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I am posting this badge here and other style blogs to test the link.

Two photos taken by our correspondent in Northern Washington state can be viewed at the Famous Grazing Movable Type test blog.

Until now we have used Grazing Press as a backup for the Belltowernews.com blog.  This started during the Blogger.com reorganization into the Googlesphere.  Because we had an extremely configured blog that did not comply with the laws set down by the new masters, Belltowernews.com was down for a few months.

So as not to be off the grid entirely, we published here.  Now that Belltowernews has its own domain and seems to have stabilized, we plan to return this blog back to it original intent, to comment on the news.

We were inspired to get around to do doing this by a recent Twitter comment made by Dave Winer on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees blog.

It had given me pause for thought to believe man who presents himself as an open thinker as Mr. Obama would subscribe to mentoring from a man who has been profiled by the common press as something close to a monster.  In reading the above mentioned piece I saw an entirely different slant to the purpose of his sermon.

So, this blog will now be devoted to commenting on the three to four hundred news hits in my Google Reader each morning.  It will not focus on politics, celebrity, money or yellow journalism, but on what I personally think is a story of some interest.

Don’t expect there to be any great number of blog entries in the near future.  There are six other Famous Grazing Blogs up that too are seeking a focus away from Belltowernews.  Let us bring the sheep into the pasture and see on which plants they feed.

An easy to use program for the creation of userbars all the way from Australia produced this userbar

in about ten minutes.

Technorati Tags: userbar

There is an organized Easter Egg Hunt in the village grave yard this morning.

My family is in the country. The question for me is, do I go? Or do I go back to sleep? My BB woke me up with its 0655 find me alarm that helps me find it before leaving for work. I set it for the weekend ON this week because I was working yesterday.

If I complain about there being too many things to turn on and off, the part of my brain that follows through complains immediately that I should be grateful for having so many things. Ying and Friggin’ Yang again!!!

eM Client just didn’t work.  All of the settings were correct but I could not get it to interact with gmail IMAP.  I stayed up way too late trying.  There is just too much to test for something not to work with the correct settings.

But, only went through half of the playlist on Finetune Desktop.  It was playing a long piece from the Broadway cast of West Side Story.

I did also stay up late to see the latest chapter in the commandN saga.  New studio, what we see of it, and Jeff is feeling better.

The picture shown below is from a old but still informative article on the PBS MedaShift page that explains blogging. 

It is very clearly written and intended not for the complete novice to computing, but for one who wants to learn the basics and the reasoning behind this phenomena

Don’t limit yourself to this one article, Mark Glaser’s style on other topics of interest are worth reading as well.