this new feature is excellent. thanks cedar, andy, mike furdyck and
anyone else involved in creating this feature.
it's useful to note that the word "friend" is used in the broadest
sense. i use this feature just to keep track of folks whose
profile looks interesting on the DDN site. so people might be
showing up in my "friends" list who i might not have communicated
with.
down the road it would be way cool for there to be some indication
of hierarchy of relationship. for example, i classify people in
my own life as a colleague, a friend or a kidney friend. a kidney
friend is someone i'd give a kidney to. i'm lucky enough to count
several kidney friends right here on DDN.
adding features of the kind i describe costs money, though. the
best way for us to get to that point is to continue growing the
DDN community. invite in more friends and colleagues (and
kidney friends.) spread the word in the communities you move in.
growing the size of the DDN community is the best current way of
strengthening the community.
blogging using the DDN web site blogging tools is another way
of strengthening the community. if you're not sure what to
blog about, check out what other people are blogging about.
i'm constantly surprised and inspired by what i read on the
DDN group blog.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blogs
the best thing about blogging? you can have a blog entry with
just 2 or 3 words in it.
blogging is a lazy person's best friend. when i first heard about
blogging, i latched on right away. lazy is good.
- phil
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http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog)
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http://mytvstation.blogspot.com/ (video and rich media)
"There's just so much more creativity and genius out there than
our media currently reflect." FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
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