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Awesome new White House Flickr photos

See, if it wasn’t for Flickr, I would never have known that our President takes meetings with pirates. I would support the initiative to have more transparency in government anyway, but I love how this new administration is using social media to provide these views inside the Oval Office. On Flickr they are literally providing [...]

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When Twitter Works

It’s so simple really, and not at all new. It’s the original Facebook model, before it became huge. Twitter is about proximity. Over the past year I have sent about 100 Twitter “tweets”. Over the past week I doubled that. Why? All the people who I am following, and who were following me, were all [...]

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One number at GrandCentral

For years, my Delaware Shakespeare Festival had a central phone number, but did not have a central office or operator. So many calls got lost or responded too well too late. It was an unfortunate shortcoming that we could not find a (cost free) means of forwarding that one number to a different or even [...]

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Has no one ever wanted to display a slideshow in the order they choose?  This can’t be a new idea.  Yet, unless you are uploading your slideshow onto the web or importing it into Powerpoint or Flash, this is unachievable. -Windows Explorer will not save your custom order, once you leave that folder it reverts [...]

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We can only acknowledge you over here.

At the CVS at Farragut North three cashiers stood idly waiting to serve someone in the line. Five feet to the right I stood at the photo counter awaiting assistance. The inevitable resolution was that I need to go walk through the cashier line to get a clerk to walk back over to the photo [...]

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