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Interactive Reading: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook

How come only the seven women can comment in the margins?
Good conversations are messy, non-linear and complicated. The comment area, a chronological scrolling field just isn’t robust enough to follow a conversation among an infinite number of participants. Seven may even be too many. [Note: the forums are open to everyone and we do hope that readers beyond the initial seven will join the fray there both as regards the text and the process. We really want to know what you think works and what doesn’t.

via thegoldennotebook.org

I remember reading about this a few months ago. Noting it on the Bullet List so I can read it in a few weeks.

I Knew CSS and I Have the Tweet to Prove It

Good to hear from my good friend Grant Wiggins. And he promoted my mad technical knowledge. Go buy his art.

Required Social Media Reading: Anil Dash on Facebook Usernames

Required reading for social media gurus: Anil Dash predicts the your next 24 hours.

June 13, 12:45am: 70% of commenters mention that "Facebook Username" can be abbreviated "FU", and each thinks he is the first to think of it.

June 13, 1:00am: #FUFacebook becomes a Trending Topic on Twitter.

Check it out at dashes.com.

Building a In-Car Personal Computer

Tack this one up to "things I did not do this weekend," brought to you and me by my talented colleague Ed Anuff.

When I got the boards delivered back to me, I'd usually find at least one chip would be mounted incorrectly and I'd have to resolder it by hand, which would unfortunately often result in me ruining the board.  Once the interface board was installed, I used a trunk-mounted Linux PC running software that I'd written on top of Mozilla to provide a user interface for things like an MP3 jukebox and web access.

More at Anuff.com.

Totally Rad: Beta of The All New TypePad

Everything TypePad: Now In Beta: Previewing The All New TypePad.

Thank you, Beta Team. Bring on the feedback! And enjoy.