"Cool! Yeah, I can't see myself ever buying a $3000 lens, but hey I may win the lottery someday. You never know. Great tip on the Nikon School. Found the link: http://www.nikonschool.com/ind... . They are off for the summer but there will be a fall schedule coming up soon." - Christine Cavalier

"Hey Steve! How are you? It's been a while since I've seen you in person. Hope you are well. I'm a huge Canon loyalist, even though I started on an ancient Nikon. One of the reasons I stick with Canons- I can be a bit clumsy. Canons seem to take more bumps and bruises than other brands. This may be my imagination. I've known Nikon to be an impeccable brand, though, when it comes to crisp photos. Is there any reason why you chose Nikon in particular? But you're right about the higher models. I like to go high-end so I have the features available when I need them (and eventually I always need them) so I'll take a look at the D70 and D80. Thanks, you've just started my shopping research. ;) -PC P.S. Anyone else have any digital SLR camera suggestions? Thanks." - Christine Cavalier

"Steven, Thanks for the info. I'm not sure I'll do a middle step. As a photographer, the problem I have with point is the lighting. The flash is either on or off and can't be angled. Also, the speed of the shutter is uncontrollable. This makes most portraits or action shots totally awful. Is there a middle step camera that has a rotating flash and adjustable shutter speeds? Anyway, have fun at Podcamp. I'll be watching longingly from here in Philly. -PC" - Christine Cavalier

"Thanks, guys, I hope it helped. Michael, is there research that you've done that I missed? Please let us in on your methods. Any hints to fight spam effectively are much appreciated!" - Christine Cavalier

"Wow, Steve! That's amazing! Thanks for the good reminder on how to utilize the tools available to us. I personally need to get Google Reader working (having an issue with gtalk and adding friends), like Brogan says. Have my friends do some of the 'work!' ;-). Thanks for commenting and please let us in on any gems you come across!" - Christine Cavalier

"I know about OCR but I doubt that Google treats the scratchblogging as anything other than an image at this point. Plus, I'd love to see any OCR program that can decipher my handwriting to over a 50% accuracy rate!" - Christine Cavalier

Why'd you do it? - Corvida

Too much noise for my FF followers. I know they can "hide" my Twitter posts, but then they have to make a decision to see them or not see them on a daily basis. In the end, I just didn't think my Twitter conversations were that worthy. - Christine Cavalier

Chris, I actually admitted on PushMyFollow that I won't do ping.fm because it would be too embarrassing to have people know what music I'm listening to! LOL! - Christine Cavalier

Tojo, honey, just make an imaginary friend like Linda did with my Twitter posts. I think you are in the minority when it comes to wanting Twitter noise on FF. - Christine Cavalier

Paul, very good point. But I Tweet much less when I know the noise is going to my FF. But maybe that's the point: I should tweet less? I treat Twitter as a chatroom though. - Christine Cavalier

Great analogy about focus in photography and social media. Geared toward early adopters. - Christine Cavalier

"Funny, Rick! So, you hung out with old geezers and now you are hanging out with Gen X and Y ers? -PC" - Christine Cavalier