[global domination began yesterday]

I happily skipped into GREEN because you can on Facebook; it impressed me that this page has been operating since 2006. I checked out the other nonprofits from the link. Tempting to go further down that road, but its getting late. Will check that out later. Nice to see people of all ages and from all parts of the world paricipating; there are always party poopers, though, and I think I found the biggest one. I saw the note that GREEN had launched a website in January 2008. How great! Maybe they have (showing off her considerable knowledge ;-)) an RSS feed. Well, some big black thing has taken over the site, with the name as the title of my post. Something called SQUARED WORLD ENTERPRISED (tm). http://www.greenbecauseyoucan.com/Welcome_to_Squared_World_Enterprises!__Squared_World_Enterprises.html Who gets to trademark a black blob that takes over someone else's website?? The power of Facebook pales here, because people have been saying since September that the website doesn't work and no one has noticed. Or cared. Or done anything. Maybe they are ignoring it in the hopes it will go away... like global warming. Or maybe the new site was a hoax to begin with! Well, I digress. Lets not let ourselves go totally paranoid here. Facebook is an incredible social tool. Everybody does Facebook. I have an account. I don't use it much, but if/when one of my boys heads out to the far side of the globe, I imagine this is how we will stay in contact. Now on to LibraryThing. You dear sweet LibraryThing! I've had people rave about it, and I've checked it out, but until I took the time that this course asked me to I did nothing. Well, those days are over. I went nuts. I did a retrospective (a nice trip, thank you) of some of my favourite fiction titles. Only added very recent nonfiction. Total = 45. (see previous adjective, nuts) I'm very visual, and I love book covers! So though I tried to do my searches using the stalwarts such as the (misnamed on LibraryThing) National Library and Library of Congress I ended using the ubiquitous amazon.ca to get the covers of the copies I'd read. My big annoyance with LibraryThing?? Someone has already used my user name! I don't have enough brain cells to remember yet another new user name. Maybe we should be given unique user names at birth?? Anyway, this assignment was a great adventure. And I'm pleased to say that I'm using bloglines to track my feeds- 10 of them - and its great. I did add Community Development 2.0 to the list but the new assignment did not show up as a feed. Don't know what's going on there. Tomorrow is a full day, so its time to drop out of cyberland into dreamland. Yvonne