bkdelong

I've already posted about this once to friends-only but I promised to do a public post on utilizing me as a means for helping you find a new job.

That being said, feel free to pass this around but do note that family and immediate friends will have to take first priority. I will do my best with everyone I can who has needs - I want to help as it is my nature.

So - the key to this? LinkedIn.
( So what about this LinkedIn and getting me a job? )
I think that covers everything. Go ahead, fill out the poll, and do feel free to spread the post around. Provided I don't get absolutely overwhelmed with responses, I will do what I can to help - just remember if you're serious, I do get distracted and can lose focus. Not staying in touch with me will make me think my services are not truly needed.

I will note a lot of this information is confidential and personal. That is why I set it up so only I can see the responses. I will understand if you choose not to fill those parts out. Feel free to email me off-journal via bkdelong@pobox.com with a subject of "bkdelong LiveJournal Job Survey details" if you'd like to include that information.

In my day job, we have a non-signature binding statement of confidentiality that everyone in the community subscribes to. I hold that same confidentiality to any information shared here unless I ask and receive your permission to share said information.

[Poll #1376820][Poll #1376820]

So I need to get three 1" and three 1.5" silver rectangular belt buckles with beveled edges by tonight. It's for a project.

Think...uh...straightjacket as that's what I will need by the time I am done.

I was going to take lunch and hit the Boston/Camberville area to do so.

I work in Govt Center and Windsor Button looks like a possibility. But they need to be within pretty close walking distance of the primary Green Line stops, Red Line, or Orange Line.

Alternatively, I could hit up a Michaels or ACMoore or JoAnnes Fabric stores when I get home this evening but then I have to trek out to Carlisle from Salem to work on said project so I'm hoping to gather the supplies at lunch.

Advice and suggestions appreciated.

Please feel free to repost or retweet.

Pictures will be taken of said project as it is the first time I will have ever worn such an outfit.

Thanks in advance!

From infinitehotel - for the many fans of The West Wing on my f-list. Oh My God that would be awesome.

Deja vu all over again.

Please forgive the spelling/grammar etc as I'm doing this on the phone but if I wait to get these words out it will take too long.

The gist.

Facebook's Terms of Service now say something to the effect of as of Feb 4th if you close your account, we reserve the right to keep and use any content left on it forever.

It used to say we can use anything io until an expiration date.. This is the big change. I need to check this more thoroughly when I get home and will add in links.

I see a lot of posts similar to the fear of the Russian takeover of LJ. People leaving and deleting their accounts and planning to.

My point is this:

We as Facebook users made it what it is. We created and built the networks by inviting our friends, family and collegues. We built the content by posting notes, items, photos, videos and to walls. We populated the various apps and games with tons of information and, in many cases, built tons of apps using Facebook's proprietary. Platform.
We connected Facebook to our Livejournals, Flickr, Gmail, picasa, Mobile phones, Pandora, Last.FM, Twitter, LinkedIn and hundreds of other Web 2.0 accounts using apps. What about that data ?

For all intents and purposes, we made Facebook what it is. Can it no longer sustain itself in this economy on the ad model? Then say so. Do they need to charge a fee or find some means of funding usage? Then say so. Don't claim to own my intellectual property and memories due to a TOSs just because you want to lock me in for fear of gods know what.

To the people leaving, I understand. But I do suggest before you do, please take the time to write a well-thought out note to Facebook, Mark Zuckerburg and anyone else there telling them your reasons in great detail and, if comfortable, Post it in public for all to read. Include the phrase "Facebook doesn't own my Digital Lifestream" perhaps as a means of finding these posts.

But I also encourage you to stay. Spend the next few days educating your friends with intelligent articles and commentary on what Facebook is doing and why it is wrong. Encourage them to posy and diseminate this meme of information on why owning your digital lifestream (or whatever you want to call it) for the purposes of resale and reuse to anyone and everyone is wrong. Then encourage them to read the TOS themself and submit feedback to Facebook via the feedback link.

Since we built this several million strong network of contacts, we can also communicate to this Global Frequency and hope they too will demand recognition for what we created. We ackowledge the Facebook platform and architecture has presently won the social network war but that does not mean they own the civilian casualties and spoils.
If in the end change does not happen, Facebook does not change the TOS, join and show a firm, active and quick commitment to the Open Web Initiative, or show some other acknowledgement of their members' contribution only then, perhaps, would I suggest everyone backup what they can and leave to whatever enclaves they can find.

Facebook took no such pledge of "Do No Evil" and this never set any expectations of such.
One would hope they'd have a desire to set an example.

As you're spreading the word, keep in mind Facebook has a great many famous and powerful figures in acting, music, business, technology, and politics.

One point that occurred to me is that I wonder with President Obama utilizing YouTube to communicate to his employees and so heavily utilizing Facebook for his campaign, how he would feel about a company stating that they own any and all content of his citizens and constituents lives for reuse and resale at well whether they pot out through deletion or not.

What I fear is everything privacy locked. Does that mean Facebook owns all that as well?

I wonder what all those celebrities who brought their social network to Facebook think about that.

Spread the word and educate.

Since I've been playing with Google Latitude and frustratingly desiring additional features (such as, a checkbox option stating "if I am X ft near a Favorited location, consider me there" and "Sync up my Google Maps Favorites with my Google Maps Mobile Favorites". I was very happy to discover the Google Products Ideas forums. Pretty neat and I'll be using it more.

Before I forget (OK, I don't have a snow day, I'm home working on a report transitioning many separate processes and workflows over to our SAS/CRM and doing all my other work), after Arisia I had put They Might Be Giants "Flood" onto my iPod Shuffle along with the "Dr. Horrible" soundtrack which has been there for ages. Besides the obvious juxtoposition of "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair" and the general theme of "Dr. Horrible" there are some interesting stories told with a TMBG song here, 2 Dr. Horrible songs there etc.

I HIGHLY encourage you do set this up in a playlist (I think I sorted by upload or release days) and report your findings or favorite final playlist order plus the reasoning behind such.

Meanwhile, I will continue to entertain myself.

OK folks. I'm still having the occasional person friend me and then realize I mostly microblog via Twitter due to spending the last ~6 months working on 3 Productions, having a new child and various other things in my life.

I also hear quite a bit of bitchyness here and at Arisia this weekend about people on Livejournal who don't like reading people's Twitter aggregates on LJ friend listsfor various reasons whether they have a Twitter account or not.

I already did a post here stating that you can OPT OUT of my Twitter posts. When I friend you and you see them, just drop me a quick note. IM, Email, Comment, SMS, Call etc. Don't drop me from your Friends List simply because LJ did a poor job to make it easy to filter out certain posts.

Those of you who want to respect your LJ readers should implement LoudTwitter Twitter-to-Livejournal posts this way which allows you to remove someone from the filter.

I know a lot of you already follow me on Twitter. However, I am up to 577 followers and 403 people I'm following so I prefer the summaries. Makes it easier than going back to see what I missed.

Questions?

Ladies and gentlemen,

Mercury has gone Retrograde

Communications will be chaotic

Transportation will be nightmarish

Technology will be well, I guess what it always is.

Take that for what it is and make sure extra care and time is put into all 3.

Love to you all!

Apologies for my last story link....here's details how to post a Twitter Voter Report that NPR is monitoring and plotting:

"Including “#votereport” in your tweet is enough to get your report tracked by Twitter Vote Report. But the more details you can stuff in, the better. So, for example, include in your Twitter post:

• #[zip code] to indicate the zip code where you’re voting; ex., “#12345″
  
• L:[address or city] to drill down to your exact location; ex. “L:1600 Pennsylvania Avenue DC”
  
• #machine for machine problems; ex., “#machine broken, using prov. ballot”
  
• #reg for registration troubles; ex., “#reg I wasn’t on the rolls”
  
• #wait:[minutes] for long lines; ex., “#wait:120 and I’m coming back later”
  
• #early if you’re voting before November 4th
  
• #good or #bad to give a quick sense of your overall experience
  
• #EP[your state] if you have a serious problem and need help from the Election Protection coalition; ex., #EPOH"
  

If you don't do Twitter and don't want to, there's about 5 other ways you can make a report with your mobile.

• Send a text message to 66937 and start your message with “#votereport”
  
• Download and use the iPhone app
  
• Find the “votereport” app in the Google Android marketplace
  
• Key in a report by calling 567-258-8683 (VOTE), 208-272-9024, or 617-960-8900
  

Here's the resulting map where everything is being plotted.

"Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you believe in marriage between any people who wish to marry, be it a man and woman, man and man, woman and woman whatever; and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow."

That is, until the government does the right thing and moves wholesale to Civil Unions and leaves "marriage" to religious institutions or individuals. ;)