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…Opens Online Home for Wayward MySpace Profiles

San Francisco - You might have noticed that EFF has removed its Student
Bloggers’ Legal FAQ. This was in response to a cease-and-desist notice

we received for "encouraging kids to talk back to their parents and
teachers." This incident has opened our eyes to a new plague on the
Internet — the lost and wandering MySpace profiles of thousands of
young people across our nation.

"These profiles are an unfiltered view of young people’s thoughts and
dreams, and that’s just scary," said Bea Kweiter, a volunteer at the
online home. "If this freewheeling expression is allowed to continue,
there’s no way the people associated with it will ever get a job in the
real world. Well, unless some boss somewhere has a MySpace profile of
her own. But that would never happen."

The home offers a safe place for profiles to learn how to self-censor.
There is also a detox center for exclamation-point overload.

For this release:
http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID=556

[insert Beavis laugh track]  ROI is king, geddit?  I’m tired of my simplemindedness too, so just shut up.  The point of this post is simply to point to something smart from Jeneane, she from whom I scrounged the Qumana graphic that now appears in my right sidebar credits widget.  We say “widgets” here in WordPress land.  [insert Butthead snurk track]

When working with the native Wordpress editor in a post below, this picture was converted to a thumbnail for inclusion in the post. Here in Qumana, I want to see the whole thing uploaded. Please.

Update… glad to see that works!  Now, for my next trick, I’ll be removing the “powered by Qumana tag from future posts, and crediting them in the sidebar.  The gentle reader really doesn’t give a damn how I got the digits to the screen.  Unless she’s some kind of geek of course.

Powered by Qumana

It’s the 3.0 beta and the read-me warns of certain conditions where the tool will freeze. If it freezes you lose your copy, so certain steps must be taken. I am thinking of upgrading my PC to Etch-a-sketch 2.0 in order not lose my work.

Tags: Qumana, blog tools

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Maria at Alembic shares some drawings, including a pencil sketch of Mount Tamalpais the way she remembers it before the rains of March closed it off from view.

I’m at the Hilton in Silver Spring, Maryland. The day dawned bright and humid. It’s a museum day… Hokusai at the Sackler, Degas/Sickert/Lautrec at the Phillips Collection.

In technology news… a marvelous web 2.0 smash-up at The Register that allows you to customize your own interface. USB tanning unit at ThinkGeek.

I’m off to tweak the listics design a little more. Actually… today I’m downloading the Qumana 3.0 beta to see how it will play into my strategy to workaround the posting limitations of the native WordPress interface. (No fooling).

Maria at Alembic shares some drawings, including a pencil sketch of Mount Tamalpais the way she remembers it before the rains of March closed it off from view.

I’m at the Hilton in Silver Spring, Maryland.  The day dawned bright and humid.  It’s a musuem day… Hokusai at the Sackler, Degas/Sickert/Lautrec at the Phillips Collection.

In technology news…  a marvelous web 2.0 smash-up at The Register that allows you to customize your own interface. USB tanning unit at ThinkGeek.

I’m off to tweak the listics design a little more.  Actually… today I’m downloading the Qumana 3.0 beta to see how it will play into my strategy to workaround the posting limitations of the native WordPress interface.  (No fooling).