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Just hang up and drive!

That's right, hang up the damn phone! You're hurtling in 2 tons of machine down the street, weaving in and out of your lane, slowing down, speeding up, cutting people off. And you, backing out of your driveway, cutting me off (and fortunately not ...

From LAURA SCOTT, BlogHer,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate

WhiteHouse.gov goes Drupal: can open source lead to open government?

"We now have a technology platform to get more and more voices on the site," White House new media director Macon Phillips told The Associated Press hours before the new site went live on Saturday. "This is state-of-the-art technology and the ...

From LAURA SCOTT, BlogHer,  25 Oct 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Drupal,  Barack Obama,  Howard Dean,  John Scott (politician)

Previewing Google Wave and Twitter Lists

One of the wisdoms in web application development is "Release early and often." Google and Twitter have both released software "tests" to select hundreds of thousands of users, both with the idea that there will be problems, but let people try them out, ...

From LAURA SCOTT, BlogHer,  18 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Scobleizer

Productivity and design Mac apps I use every week (or thereabouts) ... and apps I don't

It's pretty safe to say I spend 12 hours or so a day on my Mac — or a Mac. So I thought I'd document, if not the what of the check I'm doing, then the how. Here they are. I tried to break them down by category, because nobody can really use a laundry ...

From LAURA SCOTT, BlogHer,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Skype,  Microsoft Corporation,  Samuel Beckett,  Google Inc.,  Autodesk, Inc.

Open Wide

...While the CodePlex Foundation shares a similar name with Microsoft’s source-code repository-hosting site, CodePlex.org, the two are not merging. According to a FAQ on the Foundation’s site: Open Source is something of a new thing in most realms. But ...

From LAURA SCOTT, BlogHer,  13 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress

Could I have my stuff back, please?

In the beginning, the world was offline. The past was just what we could remember. Conversations faded. Introductions to others slipped into the realm of unnamed faces and disconnected anecdotes. Jokes were heard and forgotten. Photos bleached out and ...

From LAURA SCOTT, BlogHer,  23 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.,  Yahoo!,  America Online

Feeding Fido

Do you worry about the quality of your beloved dog’s diet, but glaze over when you try to decipher the nutritional information on the packages? What do those multisyllabic words and confusing numbers actually mean? Understanding dog food labels and ...

From ELIZABETH PASK AND LAURA SCOTT, Modern Dog,  19 Aug 2009

The where-are-all-the-women question, this time in Open Source

Today the United States Supreme Court adds a woman Justice. In all the history of the country, Sonia Sotomayor is only the third woman to sit on the bench. This is a big deal. Very high barrier to entry. Heavy politics involved. Media frenzy. The Open ...

From LAURA SCOTT, BlogHer,  8 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Drupal,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Elisa (musician),  Twitter Inc

10 “People” Foods for Dogs

As a responsible and informed dog lover, you probably know that too much “people food” can make your dog ill or overweight, but there are some human foods that can be safely added to your dog’s meals in moderation to give a nutritional boost to Queenie’ ...

From ELIZABETH PASK AND LAURA SCOTT, Modern Dog,  6 May 2009

Swine flu: being concerned is not foolish

This is off my beat here at BlogHer, but it's bothering me, so here goes.... There's been much a-Twitter about the alarm surrounding the Swine Flu. People griping that SARS, Ebola, bird flu, [fill in the blank] didn't wind up being much, so why get ...

From LAURA SCOTT, BlogHer,  30 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

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