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• 08:27 great to wake up and watch the sun rise over the vineyard outside my window. beautiful day in Sonoma
• 08:49 at day 2 of #ocs08 listening to quick pitches and watching a certain someone struggle to eat his breakfast (you know who you are)
• 09:25 happy the Sharks won so handily last night. Good to be undefeated this season!
• 09:52 Rohit Bhargava and Alex Kaplinsky talking about Boundaries: How to navigate a web of falling walls #ocs08
• 09:53 Rohit: demos the project "Voices of the Olympic Games" where 100 Olympians who didn't blog prior to games were shown how to blog #ocs08
• 09:55 Rohit: site Aggregates multiple publishing tools: blog, tweets, flickr, etc in one place. is this what we should be doing more of? #ocs08
• 09:56 Alex: don't live within your community, enlarge your community by leveraging others' existing communities (see: TiVo FB app) #ocs08
• 09:57 @cwolz wish you were here at #ocs08, glad will see you in a couple weeks anyway
• 09:59 Alex: if the wider social web is eating into your market, find it and leverage it rather than fight it. (see: Flickr FB printing app) #ocs08
• 10:08 it's awfully hard to live-tweet a conf when the wifi is unstable :(
• 10:11 lively discussion re: aggregating content from disparate communities and whether it works or not for hosts and for users #ocs08
• 10:13 Questions around what are incentives to "sharing" content across multiple properties? #ocs08
• 10:14 discussion of the (failed) Yahoo aggregation of Wii themed content - just did a tag crawl and commty rebelled #ocs08
• 10:17 wisdom from @astrout saying: give them a compelling reason to come back, but don't get in their way of using other sites/tools. #ocs08
• 10:18 the notion that you "own a user is dead. #ocs08
• 10:19 think "curation" of good content, not just "aggregation" and editor is a curator #ocs08
• 10:23 Rohit recommends RadianSix as a tool to monitor usage of aggregated content #ocs08
• 10:43 discussing whether you default walls up or down in creating a commty. caveat: even when want them down, Telecoms may overrule #ocs08
• 10:53 @lpetrides I'm a big fan of aggregation as a way to enable better curators to emerge within the community. glad tide is turning #ocs08
• 10:57 Rohit: volume is not, nor should it be, the metric we should be paying attention to re: community engagement #ocs08
• 11:36 sitting in the community metrics breakout, led by Joe Cothrel, going around the group finding out why folks are in the breakout #ocs08
• 11:39 metrics: interests in ROI, value measurement, automated analytics tools, what folks are measuring, actionable data, trends #ocs08
• 11:45 @astrout you've been making me consider repositioning the handle as I(nfo)T(ech)'s thomas not "it's thomas, not tom" happy accidents #ocs08
• 11:45 metrics: interests in health index, engagement index, how use metrics to sell concept to sr mgmt, what's being measured and why #ocs08
• 11:46 metrics: interests in how do metrics set a story. without the story, the numbers are worthless. biz doesn't function without numbers #ocs08
• 11:50 metrics: interests in quantifying the qualitative (is it possible?) #ocs08
• 11:51 metrics: health metrics answers: is this commty growing? is there user value? how much valuable interaction is going on? #ocs08
• 11:53 metrics: operational metrics are the things we commty mgr folks care about but pure business folks don't necessarily understand #ocs08
• 11:57 metrics: trending metrics tell which direction are we going? diagnostic metrics tell what should I do next? #ocs08
• 11:58 metrics: what could replace "page views" as the metric of first resort as the grossest metric of massive use? #ocs08
• 12:00 metrics: replacement for page view? "gross action by user" and that's gross as in count, not gross as in ewww #ocs08
• 12:04 metrics: collins (MS) stated up front: get ready for page views to go down, as we're getting into a targeted group, so riffraff gone #ocs08
• 12:07 metrics: must be clear up front what you're tracking and why (so they'll not panic when certain long-loved metrics go down) #ocs08
• 12:07 metrics: Remember when we use to measure "hits" to our sites? how did we flip to measuring page views (monetization)? lessons there? #ocs08
• 12:09 metrics: what's the property we'll monetize in communities? (banner ads sure aren't effective). FB leading the (fumbling) way on this #ocs08
• 12:10 metrics: as the Tail gets longer, the definition of Scale changes. 200 really engaged folks more valuable than 20,000 passive folks #ocs08
• 12:11 @davekim your avatar looks so familiar. feel like we showed up to the party wearing the same outfit
• 12:13 metrics: counting memberships: if have a low barrier to entry but a high barrier to stay, clear out those inactives for a true count #ocs08
• 12:16 @jfinlayson: I think passive community = traditional audience and is a diff beast entirely(shouldn't we segment them out?) #ocs08
• 12:17 metrics: do you put a dollar value on community? how do you get to dollars? build the model, then track all actions to that model #ocs08
• 12:19 metrics: look for pattern of behaviors and track those behaviors to know where $ is made off specific patterns. lots of data, but = $ #ocs08
• 12:20 metrics: when calculating ROI for community, look at indirect effects, not just direct effects. move the transitive value along chain #ocs08
• 12:21 metrics: ROI models focus on participants? wrong tack. It's the consumers of participant's content that generate revs #ocs08
• 12:22 metrics: having SOME numbers is better than no numbers (can at least debate the number) #ocs08
• 12:23 metrics: advice: whenever presenting numbers, also present quotes from the members alongside #ocs08
• 12:28 metrics: quality = health metrics. when Companies ask "what do our customers care about?" give the customers the tools to tell them #ocs08
• 12:29 metrics: Mzinga does commty audit: numbers, what they mean, subjective tone as reported by those active in managing commty #ocs08
• 12:32 metrics: thinking of surveys: do a big deep survey infrequently, or light surveys more often? depends on desire for trending data #ocs08
• 12:36 metrics: notes there's a dearth of good community experience design consultants, it's hard enough to find good web UI designers #ocs08
• 15:06 wifi down again at #ocs08. grrr
• 15:13 Tana: 3 Billion mobile subscribers, and the mobile device is the most social, personal and intelligent device we'll ever own #ocs08
• 15:14 Tana: What are some goals of mobile strategies? myriad: alerts, read-only, content creation, ambient awareness, real-world meetups #ocs08
• 15:15 Tana: it's about coverage v fidelity, can't do all of it all at once. #ocs08
• 15:16 Tana: Things are getting easier: Open platforms and carrier independence. Mobile web improvements. Consumer awareness. #ocs08
• 15:18 Perey: reiterates: the platforms are different between PC and mobile and the businesses are very different between PC and mobile. #ocs08
• 15:20 Perey: Mobile v PC: diff screens, diff network providers, diff inputs, diff socioeconomic strata (all v some) #ocs08
• 15:21 Perey: mobile interfaces and UX: list-centric, social media centric, map/location-centric, time/temporal-centric, avatars #ocs08
• 15:23 Perey: mobile Ux (cont) greater use of voice (no spell-chek needed!), greater use of GPS and camera #ocs08
• 15:26 Perey: the future: stronger emphasis on the user's context and content. #ocs08
• 15:27 Perey: the future is in anticipatory services: where will you be going, what will you want to find. #ocs08
• 15:28 Perey: the future is in immersive, blended realities powered by mobile in embedded visual displays (crowd applause) #ocs08
• 15:29 Perey: biz models: social shopping (share experience, save money/time, high emphasis on finding/comparing, transactions) #ocs08
• 15:30 Perey: mobile biz models: virtual goods and product placement, integration of place where people and things meet #ocs08
• 15:34 Tana: your phone address book is a (potential) mobile social network #ocs08
• 15:38 @jesca your hair looks great! (you need to smile more)
• 15:59 thus concludes the content portion of Online Community Summit. thanks all for tweeting this gathering with me! #ocs08
• 17:32 rolling the dice and driving home thru SF now. hope rush hour traffic is kind
• 18:37 wow, just filled up with premium gas at $3.69 a gallon in Larkspur. full tank only cost $50
• 20:53 made it home to Redwood City in good time, including a stop north of the GG bridge for some photos at sunset. Got to kiss my girls goodnight
• 20:54 @neddotcom welcome to CA, and look forward to seeing you at #barcampafrica tomorrow!

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• 06:24 leaving to drive up to Sonoma for #ocs2008 with a stop at Peets on the way
• 07:25 for those of us who don't drive it every day, the Golden Gate bridge at dawn is breathtaking
• 08:13 made it to Sonoma in 90 minutes. traffic was very light (going north at least)
• 09:09 Jim Cashel's starting up the Online Collaboration for Social Good session at #ocs2008
• 09:18 going around the room with intros. Lots of online community experience to be shared here (and a few newbies, too) #ocs2008
• 09:22 changing tags to #ocs08 from #ocs2008
• 09:25 Starting up the session on "Transparency and Development" with Owen Barder (aidinfo) and Paul King (Gates Fdn) #ocs08
• 09:26 Barder: tradition at intl conferences: Americans start with a joke, English start with an apology. #ocs08
• 09:27 Barder: wants smart folks on West Coast to create the applications that will make the accountability work happen #ocs08
• 09:29 Barder: shows feedback cycle in domestic taxes to services loop. Shows broken feedback cycle in foreign assistance: isn't as good #ocs08
• 09:32 Barder: Uganda in '91-'95, only 13% of ed funds made it to schools. info campaign results: in '01, 80% of funds made it to schools #ocs08
• 09:34 Barder: in Sept 08, 12 major donors signed International Aid Transparency Initiative putting resources toward making info available #ocs08
• 09:35 Barder: his group (aidinfo) will help this group figure out the standards and processes to do so #ocs08
• 09:36 Barder: aidinfo be putting this aid transparency data into a cloud so that multiple audiences can access as they see fit #ocs08
• 09:37 Barder: Looks to the (software) dev community to help create novel apps to help present the data to diverse audiences #ocs08
• 09:38 @scottmoore thanks for the shout-out
• 09:39 Barder: Owen is dealing with the donor interface encouraging them to share the data, his faith is that smart things will happen #ocs08
• 09:40 Barder: This is our oppty to prove him right and create the fantastic apps with this new transparency #ocs08
• 09:43 King: Gates Fdn doesn't like NDAs and won't participate in conferences that require NDAs. #ocs08
• 09:43 King: There is, however, tension between data transparency and confidentiality, and it can't be minimized, but it should be noted #ocs08
• 09:44 King: Invokes image from Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Ark itself getting wheeled away into a huge govt warehouse at movie end #ocs08
• 09:45 King: Don't warehouse the data, let it be free. But data by itself is pretty useless. Need tools to help people decide based on data #ocs08
• 09:46 King: Important Questions to consider: is the data accessible? do we know where it comes from? can we trust it? #ocs08
• 09:47 King: there's a huge gap between what data's available and how we effectively use the data, and that gap only continues to grow #ocs08
• 09:50 Specific apps Barder would like: mashups of data and maps to help people understand WHAT is (or isn't) happening WHERE #ocs08
• 09:55 Another Barder app wish: Coordinate decentralized efforts of global community groups closing feedback loops on the aid flows #ocs08
• 09:59 Projects for Barder helpers to know of: Open Street Maps, theinfo.org (ways to scrape data, process it, visualize it), watchdog.net #ocs08
• 10:01 Don't forget Open Library Project (not as good on the "how" but great at processing requests for digitizing info in public domain) #ocs08
• 10:04 @lpetrides I abandoned Twemes and am following #ocs08 on search.twitter.com/search?q=ocs08
• 10:05 @itgirl thanks for tagging the sites mentioned in delicious. for now, follow #ocs08 on search.twitter.com/search?q=ocs08
• 10:07 Also pointed out that a great data set repository is growing at research.google.com #ocs08
• 10:09 King: the area of "visual analytics" is helping unlock so much information trapped in data. Dept of Homeland Security out front here #ocs08
• 10:10 King: the toolsets we have to pull insights out of data are amazing. Important to provide access to ordinary folk for new insights #ocs08
• 10:13 Skoll Fdn along with Acumen Fund, Google.org and Salesforce to create PDMS: a standard data system for social metrics reporting #ocs08
• 10:14 #ocs08 PDMS info from CGI site: tinyurl.com/5xmqoo
• 10:19 #ocs08 ubyou mobile social network in South Africa is ripe for mining to get feedback on how aid is working: snurl.com/47sf3
• 10:19 @peterkaminski wish you were here at #ocs08 with us!
• 10:22 Barder is not working in a space where info needs be held confidential: Dev Aid is almost all public money ergo SHOULD be transparent #ocs08
• 10:26 questions around how we get at issue of data quality esp concerning mashups of dev data. Need to leverage wisdom of crowds for this #ocs08
• 10:27 Barder: currently DAC is the org that verifies data sub'd by govts and others. Need to find a way to incorporate/filter this feed #ocs08
• 10:28 Barder: need to move away from model of a single expert verifying data & move toward many eyes verifying from own bias, in aggregate #ocs08
• 10:33 @katrinskaya tweeted a comment from someone saying ubyou SHOULD be mined (didn't provide right context, sorry)
• 11:04 @katrinskaya maybe the chinese can help ;^)
• 11:06 @dwitzel kicking off the second session this morning re community in the production of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) #ocs08
• 11:15 JGay: 4 freedoms of FS movement: free software use it however like, examine it and change it, share it #ocs08
• 11:17 JGay: Visit Kelty's twobits.net to learn about the notion of "recursive public" #ocs08
• 11:19 JGay: Kelty says four components can apply to any project that lives on the web. 1) shared principles, 2) transparency into project #ocs08
• 11:22 JGay: his project textbookrevolution.org is an example of FS approach, where he could hand keys to user who then made dev wiki better #ocs08
• 11:23 JGay: 3) community, the human element of project, 4) copyleft: "power greater than us" -- how you make it all legal #ocs08
• 11:25 JGay: a "recursive public" creates not only a tool but a process that allows group to innovate and strive to "do it right" #ocs08
• 11:27 Petrides: ISKME has been working 6 yrs in the area of info sharing, data use, transparency, etc #ocs08
• 11:28 Petrides: Giving a driveby of Open Education movement. OE motivated by Open Source mvmt (Hewlett Fdn kickstarted OE with $$ yrs ago) #ocs08
• 11:29 Petrides: an imperative for education, moving beyond ed as a static one-way exchange of info (teacher not just a delivery vehicle) #ocs08
• 11:30 Petrides: must bridge formal and informal learning environments, moving beyond the classroom, knowing how we're connected w people. #ocs08
• 11:32 Petrides: adding value thru continuous transformation of resources -- require alternative licensing and re-authoring platforms/models #ocs08
• 11:34 Petrides: feedback loop of OER: sharing teaching strategies, commenting on experience, collaborating, training/mentoring #ocs08
• 11:34 Petrides: Great recent example of adding to the knowledge base: Flickr adding Library of Congress' historical image collection #ocs08
• 11:35 Petrides: Facilitationg scholarship: Public Library of Science's access to scholarly journals. Incorporating Geo data in content #ocs08
• 11:37 Petrides: OER Commons has freely available educational materials that are easy to find (oercommons.org) #ocs08
• 11:38 Petrides: Free High School Science Text -- online peer production of free math and science textbooks for South African classrooms. #ocs08
• 11:40 Petrides: FHSST shows how you can go from grassroots effort to motivating Dept of Ed into action. #ocs08
• 11:41 Petrides: Cape Town Declaration (capetowndeclaration.org) sets the goal of creating global access to the sum of all human knowledge #ocs08
• 11:47 How does textbook industry interface with the OER project? in many strategic ways, & innovative publishers are incorporating OER work #ocs08
• 11:48 Petrides: Community College students spend 75% of their education $$ on textbooks and many drop out due to these textbook costs #ocs08
• 11:57 Happy to see my Urban Chickens blog featured on Christian Science Monitor's Bright Green blog: snurl.com/47vy7
• 12:01 I'm failing to capture the commentary re: parallels/challenges in "free/open" approaches in other sectors. look to tag stream instead #ocs08
• 14:28 After struggling mightily to get an IP address, I'm finally back online. now, to tweet from the 7th Annual Online Commty Summit. #ocs08
• 14:29 Laurel Touby and Marty Collins talking about Building Value: Proven strategies for community growth and success #ocs08
• 14:29 Touby: building community takes a long time, it's not an overnight thing. #ocs08
• 14:33 Touby: has members of the community managing others in the community #ocs08
• 14:34 Touby: know that you're building relationships that you'll eventually be able to get value from based on the work put in #ocs08
• 14:37 Collins: manages the Windows community at Microsoft. Says MS is very good at community in the developer space. #ocs08
• 14:38 Collins: wanted to start a consumer commty. consumer commty and dev commty can't use same tools. How to approach? via engagement mktg #ocs08
• 14:39 Collins: The MS end action is a license, not a product (consumers don't see diff between Dell and Windows, is all in one to them) #ocs08
• 14:42 Collins: Since end action is license, is hard to know how product is used. With engagment marketing plan, took 6mos to get ok and $$ #ocs08
• 14:43 Collins: goal was to make community experience as simple as Amazon or answers.yahoo.com in creating aggregation model of RSS feeds #ocs08
• 14:43 Collins: didn't want to force others to have to publish in yet another place, leverage what they were already doing #ocs08
• 14:44 Collins: looking how to roll out from Windows Live to Windows.com and other consumer products. How do they play nice in same sandbox? #ocs08
• 14:45 Boudy: What is diff between user group and community? #ocs08
• 14:46 answers: 1) community is broader than user group. 2) simply diff terms of engagement. 3) UG is permeable subset of commty #ocs08
• 14:50 Collins: MS exploring a crisp articulate dashboard. Nods of recognition in room about "sure, don't we all?" #ocs08
• 14:52 health metrics/health index might measure activities you want them to do, frequency, recency, tenure, clicks, newsletter activity #ocs08
• 14:55 #ocs08 attendees (in-person only), see the full list of "topics we each want to talk about" on the wiki: snurl.com/482ek
• 15:02 at MS: Help/Support group scored on how they help people resolve questions. (diff metric than Live commty) #ocs08
• 15:03 MS has a portable identity with LiveID, would like to have a reputation/ratings system that ports from one commty to the next #ocs08
• 15:09 @cshirky you mean you weren't asking me to drop you a line?
• 15:11 @frandallfarmer must be a slow backchannel afternoon for #ocs08 to pop like it has
• 15:17 Collins reminds us: community is NOT a cheap endeavor. Look to how you're lowering customer support model as a sign of success #ocs08
• 15:24 Collins: the most powerful conversation about your product is between two consumers (pro/con) where your staff doesn't have to engage #ocs08
• 16:06 trivia question: non-European country withhighest wine consumption per capita. Answer: Argentina #ocs08
• 16:10 Alan Crosby (Sony) and Mario Anima (Current TV) talking about Entertainment: Lessons applicable to all communities. #ocs08
• 16:10 Crosby: Sony Four words in strategy for community: engage, inform, educate entertain #ocs08
• 16:12 Crosby: don't forget to use your newsletter as an entertainment opportunity with your community #ocs08
• 16:14 Crosby: you HAVE to have an offtopic forum in your community, give em a place to talk about things having nothing to do with your co #ocs08
• 16:18 Anima: Current TV lowered barrier to entry to for folks to influence content on site, most popular hourly crosses over to TV newscast #ocs08
• 16:19 Anima: have created multiple tracks to allow community to participate in different ways on Current properties #ocs08
• 16:19 Anima: Current TV tenet: online participation + television = participatory entertainment #ocs08
• 16:24 Anima: caveat that "most popular" does NOT always equal "most interesting" (yes, there's a filter from .com to TV) #ocs08
• 16:28 for those who care, it looks like twemes.com/ocs08 is finally updating #ocs08
• 16:43 Anima: talking about how to deal with complainers creatively and not just give them short shrift. they may turn hiighly productive #ocs08
• 16:46 bummed wifi is gone. resorting to thumbled (thumb + fumbled) BB tweets #ocs08
• 16:49 give space to allow user-gen entertainment to happen and participate in it. #ocs08
• 16:50 btw, all my #ocs08 tweets are not a sign of OCD, thxbye ;)
• 16:56 relieved to be back on wifi, thx @dwitzel for your wifi wizardry and the new base station, to boot. #ocs08
• 16:58 what we (business-based community) have to figure out for employees is a unified culture with multiple voices, not a single voice #ocs08
• 17:00 and this ends the highly structured part of the Summit for today. Next up: networking events. Look for social news report outs on #ocs08
• 17:07 bummed to miss this evening's season opener for the Sharks. Glad my better half (@makriese) is going to be there to cheer them on
• 19:31 all cleaned up from a great 5-mile run at dusk thru vineyards around town of Sonoma. now to dinner & networking
• 20:42 sharks game is on in the bar, i can't see it from my seat tho :-(

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• 07:45 @gwachob no worries on the "weird" thing :)
• 07:52 one more busy day in the office and then it's off to Online Community Summit (Th-F) followed by #barcampafrica (Sat). whew
• 10:21 Common sense to leverage/enable retweeting: your message length = 140 characters - "RT @yourtwittername"
• 13:15 Hanging onto the glow of a great project kick-off meeting with Exponent Partners (Rem, Kathy and Peter)
• 14:10 @mstohner revolution
• 15:54 @rodot the moment's gone, back to work!
• 16:05 We win! Share in the $100K pot by picking the Presidential election results correctly on Predictify: www.predictify.com/election08/
• 16:40 Displeased with TriNet's inability to match faxed receipts to online claims. They make it hard to check match/claim status. Intentionally?
• 16:44 @mickki if I lived there, I'd be there with you all
• 17:26 setting the sails on a boat for the first time in 5 years. excited and nervous, too. our race starts at 5:52
• 19:01 back at the dock. fun, fast race. watching the space station pass overhead in the Eastern sky
• 19:54 really enjoyed connecting with a long-time coworker on a whole new level today out on the water and psot-sailing. bright futures!.
• 23:03 Excited to head to #ocs2008 at the crack of dawn. hopefully not so excited that I don't sleep tonight

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• 09:05 Looks like we might be able to pick up our new puppy (goldendoodle: a retriever/poodle mix) the weekend before Thanksgiving. Can't wait.
• 09:42 RT @Pistachio: Survey about "automatic DM" responses when you follow someone new. twurl.nl/amppqg We'll publish the findings.
• 10:25 the contract is signed and delivered (no seals needed). Itching to get our salesforce implementation project up and running.
• 14:08 RT @sharakarasic Tag @barcampafrica tweets with #barcampafrica. Blog posts, Flickr photos etc. "barcampafrica"
• 15:25 To get a MotionBased paid subscription? Not yet fully Mac-compatible, but enough so it may be worth it, even now near end of 2008 Tri season
• 17:33 sad the "home" button on Socialtext has changed functionality to go to my Socialtext dashboard (new) instead of my wiki's home (as before)
• 21:42 Lewis Black was on fire tonight on the Daily Show. Haven't laughed that hard in a long time
• 21:52 Appreciate the high touch response to my @socialtext tweet earlier. Great to know folks are listening and replying. Thx @ross
• 22:36 Where do you go to find advice and direction on how to successfully host an online community for users living in the Global South?

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• 08:04 Happy to report I'm not too sore after yesterday's race. The power of the ice bath strikes again!
• 10:22 RT @Mlsif #keating5 KeatingEconomics.com video is explosive. This is the Daisy ad of this election.
• 12:08 wow, the morning flew by. time to seek out lunch
• 12:44 it pains me to receive high-production printed material sent from a nonprofit based overseas. what a misappropriation of funds
• 15:18 Thinking it may be a good time to re-read Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds"
• 15:30 @bradrourke color me green with envy. you going to hang out on the floor or head upstairs?
• 16:42 @bradrourke go ahead, keep rubbing it in... I hope you get showered in sweat and spittle tonight!
• 17:39 previewing Zimbra before we migrate over. Having wicked Outlook flashbacks after having been locked in Mac Mail/Meeting Maker for 5+ years

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• 06:28 headed out the door to the race. starts in 90 minutes
• 07:15 i wonder how many of the bands playing early this morning said wtf, let's pull an all-nighter
• 07:16 last pre-race tweet. see you at the finish line
• 11:10 hanging around the finish area. did my half marathonhon just under 1:56:00
• 11:42 unofficial chip time is 1:55:49 and finished 2232 overall (of 13k runners). happy with the results
• 17:31 got new tires put on the minivan at Costco. Not best place to kick up one's heels with a book. Resisted urge to buy stuff I just don't need
• 19:27 went out for a celebratory dinner at Fresh Choice with the family. Home again and I think I'm going to be going to bed early tonight!

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• 10:56 van's getting its service done, I'm at a packed Peets in downtown Redwood City catching up on my feeds. off to get my race packet next
• 11:00 @dangillmor if you're still taking funny Palin remix suggestions: tinyurl.com/5xwlfw
• 12:54 just picked up my race packet. I'm bib #6089, in corral #4. bonus: 20% off coupon at Sports Basement!
• 16:11 RT @eriksr You can remix Palin yourself here: www.remixsarahpalin.com/

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• 08:39 filling up with the cheapest gas since March: $3.89/gal for premium
• 08:56 @jesca wishing you a speedy recovery. Is no fun at all being sick as a parent.
• 11:49 I'm starved: a dangerous way to go to lunch
• 13:44 looking forward to the rain coming down tonight. Has been over 200 days since the last measurable rainfall in San Jose.
• 14:47 @mitchellmckenna just went thru a similar BB8830 problem myself. Turns out my phone had moisture in it. DM your email addy & I can 'splain
• 21:46 @locoups you're only as old as you think you are. be young for a night!
• 21:47 signing my Rock n Roll Half Marathon Waiver. Picking up my race packet tomorrow for the run Sunday morning. so excited

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• 08:54 walked kid to school this AM as usual. Returned home to find wife gone, door locked and me with no key. Glad i had my phone on me
• 12:08 Enjoyed @pierre doing extemporaneous Q&A today in our staff meeting. Reminded again just how great it is to work here at Omidyar Network
• 12:30 and a litter is born. one of the breeders we've talked with shared news of 11 new puppies last night. the poor b*tch must be exhausted
• 13:41 @redwoodcityvote where is your money coming from for the "No on W" campaign?
• 14:28 wishing I could have an all-in-one "mark as read AND archive" button in gmail (or at least find out where the function is hidden)
• 15:42 Wow, AOL Hometown, the home page publishing site I birthed at AOL is finally closing down on 10/31/08. A helluva ten year run for it.
• 17:46 feel like I've got ADD today what with all the multitasking. Gotta focus this evening on one thing: throw good darts. A beer should help.
• 22:10 happy to watch the post-debate analysis 140 char at a time. throwing good darts, too
• 00:06 hooray! we won our dart match tonight, and I won my individual matches to boot. We're no longer in the basement of the standings

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• 09:06 at the office, email app not connecting, but browser works fine. gotta love the gremlins in the infrastructure.
• 09:09 new chapter in the "I'll get back to ya" chronicles: Palin can't name a newspaper she reads: tinyurl.com/43lzvc
• 10:33 @khopper thanks for the link to the Public Media 2009 Conference wiki! tinyurl.com/29vhck Look forward to watching it grow.
• 11:35 heh, new definition of WASP: Woman Against Sarah Palin (someone's handle in the WSJ blog comments)
• 14:56 wondering if the breeder got our deposit for a puppy in the litter to be born mid-month
• 23:16 long day coming to an end. looking forward to the morning's run.

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• 10:12 woke up before dawn to run four miles this morning. Tapering this week with just a two-miler on Thursday before Sunday's half marathon.
• 13:31 thankful today is the last day of KQED public radio's funding drive
• 14:16 appreciating good receptionist skills

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• 08:39 feeling yesterday's run as I amble about today. On race day will wear some body glide on my chest to help keep the nips from chafing (ouch)
• 09:51 hoping those who wisely stayed overnight by the Tyrolean Inn had a great time partying yet made it back to work on time this morning
• 11:29 @jesca you're in it for the long haul. don't look at your portfolio for another 120 days at minimum. ride it out
• 12:00 r/t @DougH Congress to financial markets: "We'll try to find an answer and get back to ya." what a wild ride
• 13:20 when someone starts tweeting too much self-promo stuff, do you just unfollow quietly? or do you let them know as you go?
• 22:29 looking forward to meeting with folks in SF tomorrow afternoon
• 23:25 got my tix to Ray Lamontagne concert at Oakland's Paramount Theatre: front row balcony, baby!

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• 07:55 starting my 12-mile run by the Bay.
• 11:40 running in Palo Alto by SF Bay = hot, sunny, smelly and buggy. good to get the 12 miles in, tho
• 12:54 Taking the girls to Oktoberfest at the Tyrolean Inn. I'm going for the beer, they're going for the bouncy house. smiles all around.
• 22:39 good times at Tyrolean Inn, watching the girls do the polka was priceless

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• 08:06 now I know why I felt off-kilter all day yesterday: allergy season is upon us again. Hopefully this Claritin will make today tolerable.
• 08:15 @endtherobocalls Thanks for the tip. I'm almost to the bottom of my Claritin box anyway, so I'll give the Z a try next!
• 12:26 just participated in the Redwood City master plan input meeting. exciting to shape the future of our town
• 20:29 first intermission at the Sharks v Canucks pre-season game. great to be in sec 104 for the year
• 23:31 watching SNL's open, then to bed. I've got a 12-mile run in the morning.

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• 07:21 Wondering why someone who's done such great work in the past is flaking out so hard on me this week. uncharacteristic of him.
• 08:34 While I don't have permission to climb Everest until my girls are grown up, I can drool over this trek in Nepal: snurl.com/3v2ik
• 09:39 @susanjmegy safe travels and hoist a pint when you arrive
• 09:57 r/t @Silona Rep Marcy Kaptur on the wall st bailout - she rules! tinyurl.com/3t5ck4
• 11:54 dear nonprofit fundraiser: if you're so gung-ho on getting employer matches, put your EIN on the receipt please
• 13:22 @annaweb welcome to the Twitterstream
• 15:12 Giving away two tix to tonight's (9/26) SJ Sharks preseason game v Ducks. ping me if interested.
• 19:21 had to pause the debate to eat dinner. no longer live so I'm DQ'd from tweeting about it. drat!
• 20:02 @endtherobocalls remember that McCain was already running ads that he won the debate starting this morning!
• 20:12 @mylerdude beware The Fillmore apples!

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• 08:35 woke up late but still squeezed in a 3.5 mile run before breakfast. just ten days to the SJ Rock n Roll half marathon
• 09:50 Radiohead's released the stems for "Reckoner" for remixing to your heart's delight. w00t! (link launches iTunes) snurl.com/3u6yd
• 09:59 rt @stereogab Finance Industry Giving Visualized tinyurl.com/4o3mqq (TK: great video explain, fascinating dynamic chart)
• 13:53 wait, they agreed on a bailout plan? sh!t that means I'm gonna have to study for the debate tomorrow night.
• 13:56 r/t @jayrosen_nyu Did Sarah Palin and the McCain crew know that "close to Russia" was coming? ... Watch CBS: is.gd/389x
• 15:11 r/t @neddotcom "Palin: Bailout is about healthcare!" a disturbing 1:30 second video, she's all over the map: tinyurl.com/4euehq
• 15:48 those answers you want? "I'll try to find some and bring 'em to ya!" #suspending my benefit of the doubt in Palin's competence
• 16:33 about to leave my desk to go partake in our monthly wine tasting here at the office. Gotta love the perks!
• 17:35 got the line on a litter of golden doodles that's due mid-October. Spoke with the breeder (very nice) Hoping there's a puppy in our future!
• 20:42 i want to believe in Oregon State. really i do. no one in the bar is cheering for USC
• 21:17 hooray for oregon state!
• 23:04 happy to get 318 highlight points at darts tonight. wish I'd won one more game tho
• 23:39 lost a heartbreaker dart match 9-8. doh

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• 09:33 Big-hairy-spider-on-the-ceiling crisis over. no injuries to anyone (or anything), minimal delays to schedule, situation back to normal
• 10:17 @acarvin fingers crossed for the both of you that the delivery is fast and easy.
• 12:11 McCain wants to postpone the debate? Means there's something wrong with our fundamentally sound economy? or just his debate prep process?
• 12:24 i heart Campbell Brown tinyurl.com/4rcw5p
• 13:04 my replacement blackberry is now online. I feel so relieved to be connected again! (all the better to make the jump to an iPhone quickly)
• 15:59 having fun blocking out page layouts in Illustrator before creating the actual templates. good times
• 21:15 girls are fed, bathed, brushed and in bed. Now to surf the 'net
• 23:27 Registered for the SF Triathlon at Treasure Island on Nov 8 (olympic distance). gotta do my half marathon (on 10/5) so I can train 4 the tri

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• 06:10 wow, involuntarily slept nine hours straight last night (on the couch, no less). I must have needed it
• 06:44 Excited to hit the SJ Sharks Teal-and-White scrimmage tonight with the family. Hope to get Mike Griere's signature on my jersey
• 11:51 new phone is here, charging the battery hoping to bring it online tonight. feel naked without a cell phone available
• 14:24 feeling great about the future. this is going to be fun!
• 15:20 @nmcafee actually, not excited about the phone (is another BB for now), but about work future and the team we've got here
• 20:34 omg, Mike Grier signed my Sharks jersey (with his name and number on it). Woohoo!
• 20:41 Does anyone know a success story related to celltradeusa.com? Thinking of getting out of my contract via the site. Share your story with me?

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• 07:02 I actually managed to lose 3 lbs on my trip to Italy. I thought I ate pretty well on the road. Must've been my running + portion control
• 07:57 hooray! My brother-in-law made it home to the States this morning from his second tour of duty in Iraq
• 11:52 @pierre how many urban chickens does your neighbor have? are they legal there?
• 14:17 trying to push thru the jet-lag lull in productivity. One more cup of coffee should do it
• 15:01 discovered that Insights on my FB fan pages stopped updating a week ago. anyone else experiencing same thing?
• 16:32 my blackberry is possessed. keyboard shortcircuited and it's making calls on its own. removed battery, ins sending a new phone overnight

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• 03:19 leaving italy after a beautiful 7 mile run this am. next stop FRA
• 06:40 lounging in FRA for another 90 min, then home to SFO
• 07:57 on board UA937 to SFO. hope it doesn't suck flying domestic overseas. tweet you in 12 hours
• 19:39 touchdown at SFO. will do what I can to avoid flying a US carrier overseas again.
• 19:55 much better arrivals experience at SFO. instead of ominous TSA warnings, theY're playing disney-like montage of USA culture highlights
• 21:52 already unpacked. Hoping my "don't sleep on the plane from Europe" strategy works to overcome jet lag quickly. so sleepy!

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