If you’re on MySpace or Facebook, updating your LinkedIn profile, blogging on WordPress or Blogger, sharing photos on flickr and Picasa, and Twittering your every move, should you give up any notion of selectively controlling information? Or should you just assume that everyone can piece together all the pieces of the puzzle, drop any pretense of anonymity, and treat it all as one big public identity?
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We just launched the new MySpace profile. It’s completely opt-in, but if you’re willing to take a look, you can upgrade by going to Customize Profile from the Profile nav menu.
Features:
This has been at least a year in the making, from concept to design to development, so it’s good to get it out there. But we’re not finished yet. More themes and features are in the pipeline. Enjoy!
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The Constitution declares that “[an] Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.” The primary purpose was to assign Congressional delegates to the member States based on population, but the Census Bureau does a lot more than just count heads. They collect all sorts of data, and employ math/stats people to come up with estimates for those years when we don’t have a census.
Here’s something I bet you didn’t know (I didn’t know until I looked):
| 2006 Census Estimate | Households | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Married-couple family household | 55,521,868 | 49.7% |
| Male householder, no wife present family household | 5,121,415 | 4.6% |
| Female householder, no husband present family household | 13,920,783 | 12.5% |
| Nonfamily household | 37,053,336 | 33.2% |
| Total households | 111,617,402 |
Given the data:
Only the third one is a rhetorical question (the answer is yes).
NaBloPoMo 9
I’ve gotten the double whammy of Vista and Office 2007 at work, and it’s driving me nuts. There’s not too much I can do with the IT policies at work, but I’m trying to figure out my alternatives for the next home machine.
Specifically I’m thinking about getting a new laptop for the wife. Since Vista is now the only option on most machines, I’m considering getting one of those “netbooks” that come with XP. I really like the idea of the netbook; it’s super-light, and heat generation is apparently much reduced with the solid state hard drive. The real question is, can you practically use one of these machines as your only computer, or are most people just using them to get on the Internet and do simple things on the go?
Alternatively, I could go for a MacBook or a Windows laptop and buy a copy of XP for it. Thoughts?
NaBloPoMo 8
This daily posting business is hard. We’re on the verge of launching a new product; it’s a lot like setting up an elaborate maze of dominoes. Should be all worth it come Monday. Watch this space.
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