Now, there are some limitations to the Box.net service, as laid out over on the Mac Screencast Guy, but 50GB of free storage is still 50Gb of free storage, right?

You never know when that might come in handy.

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For those of you looking to get started with WordPress, or as a gift to someone you know who is starting out with WordPress for their website platform of choice, this is a great little resource to get you started. Heck, I bet there’s even something new in there for many of us who’ve been using WordPress for awhile!

There’s only a week before Christmas, pick it up now!

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As you may have known, we produced our 4th Annual Live Reading of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” on Sunday. Below are links to the audio and the video from uStream, too. If you subscribe to my shows, you will see the audio in your podcast downloads, as well.

http://welchwrite.com/cip/audio/2009/live-christmas-carol-2009.mp3

The recording of the live video from uStream is here:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3294337

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Douglas

More info at http://DouglasEWelch.com

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“Mattie Stevens, a young boy of the early 80’s, dreams of owning a Commodore 64. He sets out to convince everyone this is the perfect gift. But, along the way runs into opposition from his parents and everyone around him including old Santa Claus”

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to participate in this year’s Christmas special (A story for another time in itself…), but I know that a lot of hard work went into it, from FiT members and special guests, and that all that work really shows in the final production. Give it a listen and enjoy the geek humor, and if you enjoy this special, check the bottom of the post for links to previous FiT specials, some of which I did play a small part in.

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I’ll be interested to see how and if Douglas can differentiate this network from something like a Facebook group, so I did join. (Of course, the fact that I already have a Ning ID makes it easy for me to do that, even though I’d have to recreate profile customizations on this network as well if I wanted it to match the other Ning networks. But I don’t really want to do that, so I left my profile pretty generic for now.)

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The same day that was released, of course, Victor announced the Typical Shutterbug Podcast would be coming, complete with a new website and Flickr group. I’m excited to see what we can learn from this new endeavor!

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Here’s an example. I have some friends on Facebook, and also MySpace, who I only know through one of my websites. For the sake of example, let’s look at my fellow Friends in Tech members, very few of whom I’ve met, and who live in pretty diverse geographical areas. Between all of us, we’re spread pretty much all over the country, but we also interact fairly regularly online and are friends in that sense, so many of the FiT members are also connected on social networks like Facebook. That’s to be expected.

The problem comes in when you consider that to Facebook, any friend is a friend in the same sense. It pulls the “people you may know” group from your friend’s contacts. Just because they know someone who I also know, doesn’t mean I know them, and in the Internet age, where I’m interacting with folks from all over the world, let alone the US, the chances that they have many, many friends that I know nothing at all about, increases dramatically.

I’ve got people on my friends lists who I’ve worked with in the past or people who my wife works with, who are mostly local to us. I’ve got people on my lists who are regular readers of this blog, and people who are regular readers of my child abuse blog. I have folks I met at a legal conference, and people I’ve known from my years in IT. Do you think those groups of people would know each other just by virtue of knowing me? I may be a link between them, but I’m a tenuous link at best.

Wouldn’t it be better if we could better define our friends and this matching feature actually took that data into account when suggesting people we might know? Instead of being presented with a list of people who are local to someone I only know online, wouldn’t it be better to see only the other online friends that person has, and vice versa for people I know and see in real life on a regular basis?

I think that’d be a whole lot more useful than what I’m seeing at Facebook right now, and I’m hopeful that someone over there will take a really hard look at using the Friend List feature, and someone at Myspace is taking a long look at using the friend groups feature to help push this further along that path. Is anyone listening?

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If you know these guys from their podcast, then you know that this election will be way more interesting, and entertaining, than that “other one”.

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Turns out, the tool he recommended did the trick and worked great for this person too. Thanks Kevin!

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