"Officially advocating for Otero Mesa to become a national monument, a group of Mescalero elders are making their voices heard on behalf of the grasslands of southern Otero County. The mission of the group is to preserve Otero Mesa and insure the history of the Mescalero Apache connection to the area is recognized. "We envision Otero Mesa as a place for Apache youth programs that will educate and inspire them by the unique lifestyle of their ancestors," says their mission statement."
- News
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"Freedom is finding a second voice at the Third Ward's Emancipation Park with the battle cry of nationally-known architect Philip Freelon, whose North Carolina architecture firm is repositioning the historic 10-acre green — the city's first park — as a crucible for African American culture, past and present. The Emancipation Park commission is loaded with personal meaning for Freelon. For a period, the Philadelphia-native lived on Almeda Road, two of his three children were born in Houston and his family attended the historic Antioch Church."
- News
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And from all that, my first thought was, "Gasp! I wonder if I made the Twitter cut?!?" I've never understood the "more is better" attitude. Interesting to see folks coming around to my way of thinking. ;-) Anti-socials unite! Or, you know, quality vs quantity, whatever.
- peamageddon
Pea, I follow you everywhere. And yes, it's a tough move. I know there are some folks who will discover they were cut this way.
- Louis Gray
Don't mind me. I'm social media self conscious on account of how I only ever talk about myself. :D .... On Twitter at least, people can still follow you so are they really missing out on much by you not following them? You make your email/phone info public so if someone really had to reach you, they still certainly have the means to do so.
- peamageddon
There will be blood (and milkshaking drinking)!
- RAPatton
from iPhone
About time you figured that out, Louis.
- The Amber
i follow any&everyone, cause you never know where inspiration may come from; if they then post contrary to what could be taken as helpful to the delete bin they go, :/
- chaz2b
As always, a considered approach and one that you've been working up to for at least a year. It makes sense, however unpalatable it might be to you and other people. It's a good thing that, despite your protests to the contrary, you find value in things that are not linearly related to your core business.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
I follow everyone until I can be sure they aren't saying anything interesting. I've been pretty lax recently, though. I need to cut some folks.
- Rah-PM 2012
I've never been in the "follow everyone that follows you" camp, but I was happy to discover we are still Facebook friends. even if we are Wordfeud enemies.
- chrisofspades
Quantity has a quality all its own - Napoleon
- WarLord
I did something similar on Twitter...if I couldn't put you on a list, chances are I unfollowed you completely. And anyone I did put on a list most likely was unfollowed from my main feed and only followed on a list. But there is a big difference between unfriending someone on facebook and unfollowing them on most other sites. The difference is that when you drop them on fb, they stop...
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- April
Hmmm, I saw this because I haven't unfollowed everyone yet. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I've yet to unfollow you either. (Except on Cinchcast - too many emails) I can get those via Twitter.
- Louis Gray
Louis: so far I've seen this post at least 17 times. Probably more but I stopped counting.
- Robert Scoble
I just never followed that many people... on purpose... Seemed logical really.
- Johnny
from iPhone
April has a point. I think you are worthy of a fan page on Facebook.
- Laura Norvig
Laura, I don't have any interest in a fan page on Facebook. I understand April's point, but I will not go the ego route. That's not me.
- Louis Gray
Moment Of Zen: It's easier to prun a bonsai than fell a jacaranda. Social media services are like gardens etc...
- Johnny
from iPhone
I don't consider having a fan page an ego thing...it's a matter of being practical, to me. When you have many more people that would like to subscribe to you on facebook than you would care to subscribe to, it just makes sense to have a fan page and reserve your regular page for close friends, family, and people you want to subscribe to, even if the content on both your regular page and...
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- April
Home feed on facebook is only for real friends by design. You should have a fan page on facebook, Louis. For us, unworthy souls. :)
- İlter Kalkancı
Certain truths such as 'quality vs quantity' still apply, whether we are offline or online. I mean, really, nothing has changed here people.
- David McDonald
But Louis, you say FriendFeed is mummified. So how is it I even saw your message?
- Walt Crawford
Glad to here you are enjoying your children they grow up fast. How is life in Silicon Valley now? I remember the BIG loss of jobs there. I enjoy the grandchildren that are all in there upper teens. 2-19;1-18;2-17 and 1-16, Only 1 lives nearby. The others are scattered. Thank goodness for Facebook and cell phones.
- Joyce Kaaland
Eric Newman was a mentor of mine in graduate school and partically funded my Ph.D. out of his own pocket. At 99 years of age, he's amazing.
- Mary F. Striegel
Rachel just left 13 of her fields fallow and has reached level 5. Click here to pass legislation to protect her way of life.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Michael L. has just expanded his empty farm from 8 square barren miles to 16 square barren miles! Click here to send him more nothing.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
A sad-eyed lost cow has wandered onto the empty acres of Georgia's farm. But don't you dare adopt it because adding dairy income would violate the terms of your subsidy. Click here to enjoy a fine hamburger.
- Stephen Mack
Someone should read Betty McDonald's book "The Egg and I" to see how farming should really be done. lol
- Melanie Reed
LoL, when are FriendFeed gonna invent the "Love it" button? Sometimes "like" just doesn't cut it for me and this is one of those times.
- JSLeFanu
Thank you, JSLeFanu, and thank you Michael and April for sharing. :)
- Stephen Mack
[Fields 91% idle] Eivind, thanks! Here's 162 coins for doin' nothin'! The big ole crop is still too much for one farmer to ignore though... think you could rustle up some more non-helpers? I'll give you half the harvest for every farmhand you fire. Best hurry -- just 8 hours till it... till it... actually, there's no hurry.
- Stephen Mack
Heh, thanks. I was built for not farming :)
- Eivind
It's good non-work if you can not get it.
- Stephen Mack
lol Stephen good play on the old song. the sad point though is that the idea (subsidy for farmers facing hard times) started out as a good and necessary one but has become almost useless through stipulation.
- Melanie Reed
Agree its very serious business. Especially when you look at the Economic pie chart of the US GDP and you consider the ever-threatening issue of food shortages and famine around the world. When society changed from largely sustainable and semi-sustainable family farms to the majority allowing big business to hire them, farming communities which relied heavily on the support of each...
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- Melanie Reed
Let's say for example, A certain big business corporation managed farm, thinks it will make more money selling wheat from Egypt than it will from the US farm, so its going to pay off that US farm NOT to produce wheat when it could and we could store that grain for future use. That trade equation is a huge part of the problem
- Melanie Reed
Davis, I'd like to not pay you to design more along those lines....
- Stephen Mack
Nearly 24 hours after I posted, it hit top 5 on my version of the "best of day" list, I'm very happy. Thanks everyone for the likes, comments, shares and tweets. #1 on the list is Tina's post about getting a job, which shows FF has its priorities straight. <3 to all.
- Stephen Mack
That's what I hear, Derrick... *BA-DOOM-TISH*
- Johnny
#oohJohnny. But I enjoy pork entirely too much. Bacon, chops, ribs, ham, smoked shoulder, pork belly, I like it all. Someone hand me a napkin.
- Derrick
Though nearly every business, regardless of niche, could find value engaging in social media, that doesnât mean itâs meant for everyone. Should YOUR company get involved in social media? Maybeâ¦but maybe not.
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
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"Suffering from depression as she reached middle age, Helen Martins began to channel her boredom with the life around her into creation, embellishing her surroundings with sculpture and painting and bringing light, color and art into her house and garden. She began with the inside of her house, which she soon finished, and then moved on to the outside, where she and Koos Malgas spent twelve years building the "Camel Yard," the exterior sculpture garden filled with hundreds of stone sculptures. Inspired by biblical texts, the poetry of Omar Khayyam, and the works of William Blake, Martins was also particularly fond of owls, hence the name of the house. By her late seventies, however, she was losing her eyesight and was no longer well enough to work on her house. She ended her life at age 78 by swallowing caustic soda."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"Reader is outstanding when it comes to scanning huge volumes of posts. The mistake I most make is thinking the person sharing is the author - the old speed reading lets me down. Another good shortcut: if you hit the 'u' key then it gets rid of the left-hand subscription information to make the screen viewing area bigger. This means you can see a few more words in list view that can make a different whether or not it's worth reading the whole item."
- Dave Richardson
کی از قشنگی های قطار که دوسش دارم همین دوده -
- reズa .
I'm so sick of seeing this train already, like yeah it's totally a cool train, but there should be an FF feature (which of course we'll never see now) where you can hide things permanently once seen, time and time again
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Nervous? Nah, you americans probably handle being in the limelight and speeches etc. much better than us isolated and nocturnal norwegians ;) but truth be told, I only seriously got the jitters half an hour before she came up the aisle of the church.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
from iPhone
Nervous, excited, stressed, ready for it to be done...all of the above. :) Going to be a long week. Can't wait for all the family and friends to get here.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Is it a one day affair or a weekend with several parties ?
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
We have bachelor bowling for the gents and Zoo Lights for the ladies on Thursday, rehearsal dinner on Friday and then the real deal on Saturday.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The most important thing IMO... keep reminding yourself to settle down and enjoy the time/events/people who show up. It's such a crazy whirlwind when it's all going on you've got to focus on not letting it just wash over you. During the reception, Al and I would find each other and center ourselves to make sure we would be able to soak it in. It's the best.
- SAM
If your buddies are anything like mine: Keep control of the wine flow to that part of the table ! "Funny" comments during your speech is not what a nervous groom needs:) Anyway, after the speech it was a delightful evening where everything was arranged for us and I didn´t have to worry about anything. Doesn´t happen often.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Yes! Set your brother to ustream it :)
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
I'm so happy for you, Alex. I would tune in for ustream but I have a feeling your whole crew will have a lot going on that day. :) Congratulations!
- hollyrae
This is a blog started by a former co-worker of mine, who is chronicling his thoughts after recently finding out he has an aggressive form of brain cancer. He is an amazing writer. He's not afraid of dying, basically because he says he has had an adventurous, fulfulling life with no regrets. I'm in awe of his courage.
- rowlikeagirl
from Bookmarklet
I read every word of every blog entry. The writing is amazing. And I'm praying for him. At least he's not in any pain, other than the weakness from chemo.
- rowlikeagirl