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Today is Not My Birthday Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:30 AM PDT The truth is, my birthday is a week from now. I don’t do this as an April Fools thing. I do it because I’ve chosen to tell all the databases of the Internet one fact that’s different from the real world. I do this to see where my data ends up. It’s caused a great deal of tricky confusion in the age of people being so kind to me. At this point, it doesn’t matter which day is my birthday. My birthday is in April. I’m an Aries. I will be 39. I’m very grateful for all your kindness. It really does matter to me, and every voice counts. As I do every day, I read every response, even when I can’t reply to everything. I sure try. You’re the best. Me? I’m just pleasantly older. Want to buy me something? Drop $10 in the bucket here at Mom It Forward for charities supporting women: Is that a fair gift? Maybe we can raise $1K today for April 1.

I am a Girl Tonight Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:44 PM PDT Okay, not exactly, but I’m doing a #GNO twitter charity thingy and you can see details here. There are more details about the fundraising efforts here, but what I know is that today kicks off a 6-week initiative on service to raise awareness and money (their goal is $50,000) for these three organizations (they all fall within one One501(c)3): http://yehu.org, http://basabody.com, and http://coastcoconutfarms.com. Seems like one way to help out. See you on Twitter. : )

YouTube is Not the Internet but She Has a Point Posted: 31 Mar 2009 12:30 PM PDT I came across this video by Laura Ross in my Facebook. It seems that YouTube suspended her account for reasons unknown and unexplained to her. What follows is quite an interesting video about the nature of free speech, discourse, dissent, profanity, and the censorship of our voice. My question, for when you’re done with the video: YouTube is a commercial property. It’s not the Internet. But it’s where we go right now and use the tools to express ourselves (amongst other properties). How is this voice being protected, or is it? The conversation makes me think of Gnomedex 2007 presenter Robert Steele, who told us that we should cobble together our own networks using Cisco routers and create our own net experiences. Maybe he was on to something. But think about that: pretty much all the tools we use are there are the behest of other corporations: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and all those places could choose to roll up the carpet tomorrow. If you lost it all there, what would that mean for you? This isn’t to be considered lightly.

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