Tweets from 2008-03-26

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  • Finally upgraded to the new #Twitterific. The ads are pretty unobtrusive. #
  • Oh no they di’int! http://tinyurl.com/2jlh7t (Yes, now you know my dirty secret/guilty pleasure.) #
  • @blogdiva I’m with you. I don’t get the point of friendfeed. Alltop, neither. I already have an aggregator full of stuff. #
  • @modochan I know. I’m hardly a fashion template, should hardly be laughing at others. It’s my bad mood medicine. #
  • @Mlsif, ooh that’s actually good to know. Will try to get to Tarrytown earlier next time. #
  • Gah! Must… get… Axl… Rose… out… of… head! #
  • Dear world: never invite me to a conference with all white male speakers. At best I will ridicule you. http://www.sciiis.org/wmsci2008/ #
  • Doing The Hustle at my desk right now. #
  • @RobertP I think that link should be http://bluenc.com/were-on. (with the period). First online gubernatorial debate in NC history! #
  • @RobertP Grrr, twitterific is too smart for us. Let’s try this: <http://bluenc.com/were-on.> #
  • @dbarger The Hustle was the most popular line dance at my summer camp in the early 80’s. I still know all the steps. #
  • A great view on the 4,000th US military death in Iraq: http://www.shaungroves.com/shlog/comments/numbers/ #
  • More people (4.5 mi) saw Obama’s race speech on YouTube than on cable (4 mil). Breaking records. http://www.techpresident.com/node/23211 #
  • It’s a gorgeous day but I can’t open the window b/c there is some kind of loud-ass chainsaw or something a block away. Grrr. springtease. #
  • Brain sludgy. I think that cold is coming back. #
  • Just got my 1st Facebook spammer. Guy from London advertising a DJ on our local politics event. Can’t figure out how to block him. #
  • Hey my Clintonista friends, what about this NAFTA double-talk? http://tinyurl.com/2tqlgy #clinton #
  • Oooh, #Google Docs interface got prettier today. #
  • Congrats @RoseVines for getting Sister @HelenPrejean to start Twittering! #
  • @bpuccio I ate that junk all the time as a kid! It was the actually the least disgusting item in the vending machine at the local YMCA. #
  • Facebook won’t let me place an ad with the title "Get yr local politics on" because it’s not grammatically correct. ‘Scuse me! #
  • @ggreeneva touché! 😀 #
  • Hey ev’rybody, don’t forget local blogger meetup & OrangePolitics happy hour is today at 6pm at Milltown. #
  • Milltown gets worse everytime I come here. This will be the last time I try to host an event here. #Carrboro #OrangePolitics #

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Tweets from 2008-03-25

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  • Watching #Futurama episode about the importance of #voting! LOL and right on! #
  • Finally ran out of memory on my #Eee’s 2GB hard drive. Most stuff lives on a 4GB SD card, which is quite adequate. #
  • @chimprawk you lucky bastard! Enjoy the games. 🙂 #
  • Go Coach Williams: "Let’s stop putting those stupid logos on the floor where kids slip and slide around and somebody is going to get hurt." #
  • Awesome, @webb! Give a speech poison a diplomat or something! 😉 #
  • Just gave $30 to Barack Obama. Think I will win the dinner lottery? https://donate.barackobama.com/dinner #
  • Loving Alex King’s Twitter Tools! http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress (See it in action at http://tinyurl.com/2uo7ks ) #
  • Wow, me and @BrianR were among many who got the #08NTC cold! Funny we are now having this continued shared experience with y’all… 😉 #
  • Today’s word: serendipitous. #
  • Whew! Just got off an intense 112-minute conversation with my coworker. We have issues. But we have some good ideas too. 🙂 #
  • BTW, I didn’t mean to say my coworker and I have issues with each other, more like we have some organizational issues to deal with. #
  • Missed you, @arsepoetica. Hope yr weekend was ossum. #
  • @baratunde I want Google Apps to support Gears! Thx for asking, hope they listen… #google #
  • @Halley WTF? Congrats! #
  • Getting ready for #WomenWhoTech (Monday!) in a ReadyTalk demo session with @ntenhross, the most patient woman in the world! #
  • @glowbird, see http://womenwhotech.com #
  • @mistersugar interesting analogy. Swamps are fertile places! #
  • @baratunde now you tell me! 😉 We should have used #Zoho instead of #Google for our NP intranet stuff. Thanks for the tip. #nptech #
  • New productivity idea: schedule no appts after 4pm, spend 1 hr replying & dealing w/ things that have come up that day. Done by 5? #gsd #
  • w00t! Fellowship of Reconciliation is featured on the front page of http://www.change.org today. Show us some love! #
  • @RobertP it’s at the bottom of the change.org front page for me. Did you scroll down? #
  • #UNC fans: I am updating http://tinyurl.com/2qwmhk with tournament games as they are scheduled. #
  • Hey locals, don’t forget the combination #OrangePolitics Spring Happy Hour -and- March Blogger Meetup is tomorrow at 6pm at Milltown. #

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Welcome to the Lower Ninth Ward

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Last week, Brian and I had the immense pleasure of being given a post-Katrina tour with Quintus Jett, a professor at Dartmouth. He is the Director of the Gentilly Project, an effort to use open source principles to map the state of storm-damaged New Orleans neighborhoods. At their web site you can use dynamic GIS maps to zoom in on the condition of each lot (ie: vacant, being renovated, occupied, etc.), and zoom out to see the block-by-clock process of rebuilding.

I was so grateful for a chance to see the community personally. As you may know, there are still spray-painted symbols on many homes left by the rescue efforts. The biggest shock was that much of the Lower 9th Ward, which used to be hundreds of homes, is now a grassy field with just a few cement blocks and slabs marking former foundations.

You can browse my pictures at Flickr or watch the slideshow below.

Tweets from 2008-03-24

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  • Officially fed up with wrestling with our #MythTV box. Contacting MonolithMC.com about sending it back. #
  • Setting up Alex King’s Twitter Tools to digest my tweets and barf them out on to my blog. http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress #
  • I need a visit from the coffee fairy. Going to use today’s comp day as a sick day, but still have a meeting at 9pm. #
  • Err, I mean mean 9 AM. Duh. #
  • … aaand Mr. 9 AM isn’t in. 🙁 #
  • Uploading pictures of the Ninth Ward to Flickr. #
  • Yes, @minorjive. Much of the Lower 9th is now a grassy field! http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubyji/sets/72157604226236274/ #
  • Just saw a guy riding in the street in his wheelchair – that’s how much the sidewalk on Umstead Drive (near us) sucks. #orangepolitics #
  • Waiting @ the so-called Genius Bar again… #apple #
  • Good thing I brought some supplies, I’m in for another long wait. appointments are a joke. #apple #
  • I have a love/hate relationship w/ #opensource software. At #PenguinDay I was feeling the love. With my #MythTV, more of the other thing. #
  • Why are you watching so many movies, @dbarger? Is @arsepoetica sick or out of town? She hasn’t been tweeting much… #
  • Finally did my ballot in the #NetSquared Mashup Challenge. You have 2 more hours to vote! http://www.netsquared.org #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-23

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  • Finally got our butts over to the bywater last night. Wish we had joined you there Friday, @minorjive. Way cooler than French Q. #08ntc #
  • #PenguinDay was great. Really fun meeting and getting to know open source ppl. Not a lot of new info for me, but was for others. #08ntc #
  • Enjoying the best streetcar driver in #NOLA, I think. About to seek brunch on Frenchman St. #
  • Walked around Frenchmen St. & French Market. Next: local tour w/ Dr. Quintus Jett of the Gentilly Proect! Then airport & home. #08ntc #nola #
  • @blogdiva, you I’m too old for that, grrrl. Watched Sesame St, Electric Co, Zoom, 3-2-1 Contact. ¡Y Villa Allegre! #
  • Checked out 9th Ward, Gentilly, & Lakeview neighboods. Took pictures. Felt like a voyeur. Now watching NCAA #basketball @ airport. #08ntc #
  • @BrianR and I are both coming down with something. 🙁 Thanks #08ntc. 😉 #

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NTC on Twitter

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I tweeted at the Nonprofit Technology Conference last year, but not many people were even aware of Twitter then. This year, way more folks are tweeting. We are having great conversations. Plus you can follow the #08ntc hashtag and see it collected even if you don’t follow each person who is tweeting the conference.

Kudos to Holly Ross and the NTEN posse for the best NTC yet! (Of course, I still have a few suggestions… 😉 )

Ruby goes to class

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Yesterday I gave a talk to an undergraduate class at UNC (COMP 380, Computers & Society). Thanks to Robert Peterson for connecting me with professor Jeannie Walsh. I spoke about my two favorite topics: network-centric advocacy, and OrangePolitics.

Here is a video of my talk (warning, it’s 75 minutes long), and below are the two parts of my presentation:

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White women for Obama

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The NPR News Blog asked “Why Does Clinton Turn Some Women Voters Off?” Here’s my answer:

I am a 36-year-old white woman in the fuchsia (sp?) state of North Carolina. I used to love Clinton when she stood for strong, independent, professional women as a First Lady who wasn’t going to be staying home and “baking cookies.”

As a politician, though, I have grown disinterested as her policies veer more and more toward the center-right. Her support for the war cinched my distaste for her. I would never vote for a Republican over her, but I would take just about any other Democrat including Barack Obama.

By the way, I heard on NPR this morning that older white women were especially inclined toward Clinton. Not so in my family! Both grandmothers told me last night they are excited about Obama and voted/are voting for him in their respective primaries (NY and TX).