I need to follow up on something my pledge from the first post. When I began this blog for my digital networking class in spring 2009. I promised to donate to Reading is Fundamental. For every comment posted through April 29. I opted to round up just a bit.

In the early days, a guy could grab headlines with this kind of crazy project. There was even a family who did it collectively. Told a story about life, love and death, in Polaroids. And now, the Daily Mugshot.

Sunday, January 30, 2011. By helping other people look happy, Facebook is making us sad. There are countless ways to make yourself feel lousy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Saturday, May 2, 2009. Last night I was lucky enough to attend Aspect Art release party for their 13th volume focusing on public art and its relation to technology and the human experience. Is a bi-annual DVD publication whose mission is to distribute and archive works of time-based art. Each issue highlights artists working in new or experimental media, whose works are best documented in video or sound.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Boomers are using this technology, among other social media, to keep in touch with families and to watch their grandchildren grow up from across the country or around the world. Not surprisingly, Skype now has over 400 million users and, according to TeleGeography analyst, Stephan Beckert. Has emerged as the largest provider of cross-border voice communications in the world. Wow - I just went to Family Watchdog.

Tomorrow, the 16 million Facebook fans of SpongeBob Squarepants. My one concern is that kids are supposed to be 13 to use Facebook. And SpongeBob definitely has some younger fans. Hopefully mom or dad logs onto their account to watch with their kids, or the kids catch the full special on Saturday, January 29, starting at 10am.