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Gratitude and acknowledging what I have been given are important values for me, and, while I appreciate the space I have here on Blogger, my first web community, my first web home, was Elgg/EduSpaces. On my most recent birthday, I wrote about it, and the community I am/was part of there:

A year earlier, I had described why I liked Elgg/EduSpaces so much, and quoted some student comments about it.

Now the EduSpaces community is being migrated to another home, and I am grateful that Elgg’s creators have set up that solution, but I can’t help feeling that something important is being lost, so I am grieving.

Change happens; I know that. And some of my EduSpaces Friends show up on Twitter, and I will find their blogs so I can continue to follow them through RSS, but my first web home, where I learned so much about web possibilities, will be dismantled at the end of this month.

I’ve already have a number of web spots outside of my elgg/EduSpaces nest, for example this blog, but I will miss the nurturing I experienced in my first web community, and I thank Dave, Ben and Misja for what they have given me, my Friends, and my fellows.

Every so often I see a blog post that I want to not just save in my del.icio.us account – http://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis – but I want to actively learn how to use. LifeHacker‘s Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks is one of those. The list starts at 10, and, although I’d re-order a couple of the tricks, all of them are more than useful, exciting even.
Here are some of my favorites:

There are other tricks – go to Lifehacker – Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks – to see the rest!

Through Jane Hart’s Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day, http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2008/01/waholizer.html here’s me, as seen through the Warholizer Give it a try;->

Skitch Beta, a Mac application, is free and a lot of fun. It’s almost worth buying a Mac just to get a copy;-> I’ve been using it to add pictures to my edublog – here and here. It works well with Flickr, my photos, and screenshots. Unfortunately, it isn’t available for PCs yet.

You can see the screenshots that I simply dragged onto Skitch, which made them .jpgs, and the two places I could either click to drag the image onto the desktop or another page, or with two clicks get a Skitch webpage opened – and simply click to copy and paste it into the post using Blogger’s image icon
To learn more – go here – http://skitch.com/ – and request your own version – if you are on a Mac.

From Michael Geist’s Blog – http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2431/125/ – how to take action – and power!

I heard a disturbing story today from a friend. She has a Yahoo mail account, or rather, she had one. Someone hacked into it and sent emails to everyone in her contacts list. I can’t remember if she said all her files were destroyed as well; we were both rushing in different directions.

All her contacts got an email starting “Hello Dear” which her kids immediately recognized as a fraud because she never uses that kind of phrase. The email continued, telling her contacts that she was stranded in Africa, and where they could send the money she needed to get back home.

I don’t want to increase anyone’s paranoia, but that level of fraud is pretty scary. My friend is a smart lady, and she took action immediately, but it has caused her a lot of trouble and anxiety. I don’t know what would allow that kind of security breech. Does anybody know how to avoid that kind of hacking?

Sometimes even cuteness has a purpose

My apologies if you’re offended by cuteness or kittens, or Macs;->

Found through Christopher Sessums