Social Media

posted on: 02/02/2010
What the heck is a #hashtag?

As promised, I will unveil one of the great mysteries of our time:  why do people use the pound sign in tweets? If you're reading this and you don't know what a tweet is, stop by here first, and then join us again.

Hashtags are the formal term for a unit of characters that begin with the pound sign, ie #iphone or #tednugent.

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posted on: 01/23/2010
U.S. Illiteracy Predictions

This page was at the back of a book I got from the library. It was published in 1978.

Thankfully, the U.S. illiteracy rate around 2000 was 1 percent and it's the same now, in 2010.

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posted on: 12/30/2009
Stacks of Christmas Cards

Christmas is over, but a few tardy Christmas cards will still float in over the next few days. Not for us -- as we received a total of 5 cards this year.

My parents, however, stockpiled stacks of stamped, addressed, printed and handwritten cards from more than 50-years' worth of acquaintances. Those are my dad's feet and glasses to the left, where he sat to peruse the cards.

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