Word to everything you said, Karsten. :)

Walked for one full hour tonight! :)

Distance: 3.5 - 3.75 miles (took new routes so I'm not sure)

Feels so good to be outside moving (for a change).

Mowed the lawn last night and then walked one lap around the neighborhood (about 1.25 miles). Felt good to be active and not answer the call of the couch when I got home. Oh wait. I did take a 20 minute nap first. :)

One more walk/jog and one trip to the gym left for this week (at a minimum).

A funny side effect of being active seems to be that I pay more attention to the foods I eat. Can anyone relate to that?

How did your boss attempt to send e-mail TO a website?

Yesterday, dad asked me (for the ump-teenth time), "What is Skype?" :)

From Tiff on Facebook...

Additional lesson: sometimes the Spirit uses your wife to confirm your own concerns. ;) SOOOOO glad you're okay.

Related article from Henry Jenkins...

“Most often, when people are asked to describe the current media landscape, they respond by making an inventory of tools and technologies.”
“Our focus,” argues Henry Jenkins, director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies programme, “should be not on emerging technologies but on emerging cultural practices. Rather than listing tools, we need to understand the underlying logic shaping our current moment of media in transition.”

“These properties cut across different media platforms and different cultural communities: they suggest something of the way we live in relation to media today. Understanding the nature of our relationship with media is central to any attempt to develop a curriculum that might foster the skills and competencies needed to engage within participatory culture.”

http://www.experientia.com/blog/mits-henry-jenkin...

Regarding the detraction from social capital, I think that the user or the way social media is used holds the power of whether attraction or detraction occurs. Social media in and of itself is a tool. That tool can be used for purposes or in ways that add value to social interaction, or it can be a tool that detracts from social interaction.

As Dave Ramsey says in one of his Financial Peace University lessons, a brick is amoral. It has no morals. It's neither good nor bad. But when you put it in the hand of a human, it takes on the morals of the human. Example: I can throw a brick through your car window (detraction), or I can use the brick to build a hospital (attraction/value add). In a similar way, I can use social media to add value to my relationships and even start new ones otherwise unlikely to begin, or I can use social media to isolate myself from physical interactions (face-to-face) or send spam or pretend to have whole relationships that really do not exist.

It's all in how you use it (IMHO). :)

These comments were posted on Facebook and copied here with permission:

DEREK BLAYLOCK: I can somewhat agree Rob, but I also have a bit of a pushback in that I believe it detracts from overall social capital. (I am guilty of social networking as well) There's a great book on this topic called, "Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam. It speaks of how our homes are becoming our own secluded paradises & this has a negative ripple effect in what goes on in our communities. Granted it's not just one thing ie facebook, but it's a multitude of things all lumped together: facebook, tvs, radios, gaming systems, televising and streaming church services, even our architecture comes into play in how we withdraw from the PTA, civic groups, & as the title suggests we'll go to movies and bowling by ourselves. Friends and Seinfeld were hugely popular b/c of their wit and also the community people desire. There are many more contributing factors and also many more negative effects, & I would hope that we can find a balance between secluded networking and good old fashioned let's grab a beer.

DEREK BLAYLOCK: sorry...not trying to rain on your parade...just a soapbox of mine that I'm projecting onto your status. lo siento ;-)

ROB MCBRYDE: No prob, Derek. I totally see your points.

I wasn't suggesting that social media replace face-to-face interactions, more complimentary. I know some folks who live solely (well nearly) through online interactions, and that (IMHO) is not healthy because we were designed for personal relationships.

Finish later. Wife is calling me to dinner (not virtual dinner - real sit down and face each other dinner). :)

DEREK BLAYLOCK: : haha! nice! ;-) and I'm sure you don't sacrifice real for the virtual - I think I hijacked your link a bit. my bad. ;-)

ROB MCBRYDE: On another note, I was looking at this subject from a perspective of social media is interaction AS OPPOSED TO social media being another billboard for one-way marketing. My brevity did not fully convey the whole thought.

ROB MCBRYDE: From the article I referred to...

"Social media is about people, conversations, friendships, education, and communication. Social media is not a race. If you get over-competitive with people over followers, retweets, and popularity, you lose sight of the communication and learning aspects of social media, and the fun gets sucked right out."

DEREK BLAYLOCK: hey chief, yeah, you can post my comments as long as you don't cut and crop them so it looks like I'm worshipping beezelbub. ;-) I've had some things edited in the past that kinda made things sound a little distorted from their original intention. but yeah feel free to put 'em on your blog.

Thanks for this list, Piet! I just added eXtplorer and Simple Image Gallery to a client's website, and they are very pleased.

http://www.ivmwebsolutions.com/public-health-serv...

FYI...the trick is to Clear Private Data.