“Animated People” from Theo’s animation class this summer (he’s in the yellow and blue stripes) #blog #family #theo #video
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As I’ve used G+ more the last week, I’ve realized the service that feels…
November 12, 2011
As I’ve used G+ more the last week, I’ve realized the service that feels the most redundant is my Tumblr account (on the custom domain http://www.quackquack.org). I started the Tumblr because I wanted something more “mine” than Facebook, a place where my photos and links would live independently. But how silly – Tumblr is just a hosted service that I ultimately have no control over.
So what’s different with G+ and Facebook? I think it’s the sense that Google will archive things. It feels like everything disappears after it ages off of the FB feed. #blog
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The January issue of +Friends Journal will include an interview with +Robin Mohr.…
November 10, 2011
The January issue of +Friends Journal will include an interview with +Robin Mohr. One of the classic Quaker tracts that’s inspired her is a 1944 speech that Rufus M Jones gave to young Friends in Baltimore Yearly Meeting. We couldn’t locate a copy online so we scanned, copied and typed it in and will use it as a supplemental link to Robin’s piece. #blog
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By Rufus M Jones Web-only feature Rufus M. Jones’ 1944 lecture for Baltimore Young Friends Yearly Meeting.
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I thought I’d try an experiment
November 8, 2011
My life is now such that I don’t have the time to do long-form, thoughtful blogging. When I have time to think about big ideas expressed in well-chosen words, it’s as editor at Friends Journal. I have a rather long commute but it’s broken up with transfers, I often have to stand and I usually don’t have a laptop on me. What I do have is a smart phone, which I use to keep up with Quaker blogs, listen to podcasts and take pictures.
Despite this, I can usually write a few paragraphs at a time. Kept at steadily those could amass into blog posts. But the finishing-up effort is hard. I have a 2/3rds completed post lavishing high praise for +Jon Watts’s new album sitting on my phone but haven’t had the chance to finish, polish and publish. So what if I serialized these? Write a few paragraphs at a time, invite commentary, perhaps even alter things in a bit of crowd-sourcing?
Any feedback I’d get would help keep up my enthusiasm for the topic. This informal post-as-chat was actually the dominant early model for blogs, one that fell away as they became more visible. It’d be nice to get back to that. The medium seems obvious to me: Google+, which allows for extended informal posts. So I’ll try that. These will be beta thoughts-on-electron. If they seem to gell together, I might then polish and publish to QuakerRanter.org, but no promises. This is mostly a way to get some raw ideas out there.
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November 1, 2011
Trick-or-Treat
October 31, 2011
Most pics from the area of Grape Street, the unofficial capital of Hammonton Halloween. #blog #family
In album Hammonton Trick-or-Treat 2011 (23 photos)
At home, Francis shows his Happy Clown costume.
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A walk around the Occupy Philly encampment
October 25, 2011
There’s a different feel since I last visited – it’s quieter and more lived-in. Less a protest and more a small town. Services are organized and there’s less people standing with signs and taking each other’s pictures.
I briefly sat in on the Quaker/Interfaith tent, where a meeting was going. I couldn’t hear much but the main issue of business was how open an interfaith speaker’s series should be. I didn’t have too much time so I quietly slipped off afterwards to take more pictures of Occupy. #blog
In album Occupy Philly, 10/25 lunchtime #occupyphilly (7 photos)
Part of the “Idea Wall”
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Wow, when I Google myself, the top return is my Google profile, which includes direct…
July 10, 2011
Wow, when I Google myself, the top return is my Google profile, which includes direct links to my some of my media (in this case, business site, blog and LinkedIn profile)
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