Tonight was the official start to the 2009 National Association of Science Writers conference, and I arrived here in Austin, TX earlier this afternoon. Unfortunately, my luggage did not arrive with me. It sits, in Dulles Airport, waiting for someone from United Airlines to put it on a plane. What exactly did I pay that
Today I moved my blog to wordpress.com, so that it’s easier to update. With iWeb, you have to be on the computer where you created the site in order to update the blog. This isn’t exactly conducive to free flowing expression. So I’m using wordpress.com for the blog, and leaving the other pages on iWeb, with links between the two. With WordPress, I can even upload the blog from my iPhone, if the mood strikes.
Today, GovLoop, the ning-based social networking site for government communities, announced that is has been bought out by GovDelivery, a for-profit, government communications service provider.
Upon hearing this, I deleted my account, because it just feels a bit icky to talk about communications issues on a social network owned by a company trying to get business solving those issues.