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DIA's Mara Veraar Among Contributors to Forthcoming Social Networking Book

DIA's own Online Communications Manager Mara Veraar (who wields a master's degree in public anthropology with a focus on online communities) has authored an entry in Person-to-Person-to-Person, a handbook of practical advice, analysis, and predictions about social networking compiled by over 20 of today’s top names in Internet enterprise and politics.

Person-to-Person-to-Person will be published by the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet (IPDI) at The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. The book is slated for release at a free half-day seminar September 15 at GWU's Washington, D.C. campus. Mara will be in the house, along with unspecified others DIA peeps.

 

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02:30 PM Sep 05, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Metrorail is a Series of Tubes

(Off-topic)

You get the green line and figure the seven-minute wait while three trains pass in the other direction is part of the "black tax," then hit the critical downtown red line artery where the trains-arriving board posts the times to the next trains as:

6
11
12

... and the platform already looks like the Black Hole of Calcutta, further constricted by a traffic conductor whose purpose is to holler at people too close to the platform edge and thereby throttle the defile. I have my suspicions that squeezing aboard the lastest spot on the train might have sired my progeny (and to the gentleman: sir, you may not expect my favors so easily next time), so it's a pity that appropriate precautions were not among the ear-rending condescensions and terrorist bugabooing concussed through the tunnels as a further torment while the clock counts so deliberately down.

 

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11:30 AM Sep 05, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Blog Day under the wire

 

To add a few more to the pile, here are a few current faves of mine:

Enjoy!

 

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06:00 PM Aug 31, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

In the Spirit of Blog Day

Piggybacking off Jason (affectionately known to us as JZ), here are my top 4 blogs for a good time.

 

...and one about social networking. I couldn't help myself.