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david:

Rachel and I are going to try wearing Fitbits during sex (with each other) to graph our physical exertion.

First he invents Tumblr now he comes up with this?

GENIUS is what i’m saying.

I finally got the new FB homepage today. It’s a more logical layout, with better navigation. Certainly an improvement. When the indignant protesters are done flagellating themselves they’ll learn where to find Farmville and forget they were ever upset.

The one thing I can’t seem to find is how to replace the News Feed with a specific Friend List as the default home page view. I prefer to see updates from a small subset of friends by default, not the entire flood. This used to be a simple function — is it gone now, or am I missing it somewhere?

I recently unfollowed a couple of people whose Tumblr activity had become 90% Ask and FormSpring responses, and therefore 89.5% less interesting.

I wish people would curate those posts as carefully as their other material. If you would not normally publish your damn underwear preference on your blog, why does “Boxers or briefs?” via FormSpring merit a public answer?

smartercities:

The City of Milwaukee (when they get it right) snail mails residents within 250’ of an establishment seeking some type of new license, renewal, zoning change, etc. There is also a self-subscribe system for receiving notifications like this by email, based on a certain geographical radius you can select. It’s not a well-advertised system or easy to use, so I have always promoted it and redistributed the information on neighborhood websites, email groups, and more recently facebook and twitter where the notices can be more contextually meaningful to people.

SeeClickFix makes the process much easier, and much more prone to being an informal ad hoc group effort as people are moved to post their own issues or respond to the official municipal notices I post, which may also include significant crime and property nuisance issues from time to time.

While not widely used yet in Milwaukee, SCF has had the ability in some cases to attract some productive information sharing and discussion leading to a more cohesive and civically engaged community. I hope many little instances of this type of activity will occur in the future and empower citizens citywide.