http://cos.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Ofer Inbar en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:25:30 GMT 2009-12-31T05:25:30Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976747357 I just got a copy of the Gather "news and updates" newsletter that I subscribed to the last time I was editing my preferences. It was in all-HTML. I read most of my email in a plain text reader, . . . Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:59:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976747357 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-26T16:59:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976747149 I wrote this after a visit to Colorado in November of 2004... -------------------- Someone asked me why I like Boulder. Thursday evening my friend Van took me to Hapa sushi. I tried a roll I'd never . . . Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:06:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976747149 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-25T20:06:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976746226 This weekend, I posted an article illustrated with some photos (it's a road trip story). As is my habit when I want to include photos something I post online, I hosted the photos on one of my own web . . . Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:23:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976746226 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-21T18:23:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976746116 I'm used to social networking sites like Friendster, tribe, and orkut, where you connect to people who you know, or meet people online and get to know them. I've been on LiveJournal since near . . . Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:38:20 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976746116 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-21T05:38:20Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976744605 I-80 west, Utah: flat. straight. plain. hot. No towns, no signs, no hills, no rivers, no trees. No curves in the road. Few other cars. Flat land as far as I can see, some scrub, scattered rocks. An occasional . . . Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:14:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976744605 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-15T17:14:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976744475 When I post here on "Building a Better Gather", I usually get responses from Gather staff in the form of comments or posts. But when I send email to feedback@gather.com, it seems to go into a . . . Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:35:39 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976744475 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-14T23:35:39Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976744187 A furor seems to have erupted recently among verified voting activists about HR 550, a bill that seeks to improve our voting laws by requiring a paper trail and audits. The key protagonists: Rush Holt, . . . Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:43:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976744187 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-13T23:43:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976743959 A while back I created a test on OkCupid: The Music of the World Test. I actually wrote it bit by bit for more than a year, adding questions here and there, until I felt I had enough to publish it. I'd . . . Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:30:20 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976743959 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-13T05:30:20Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976743866 I created a new group this afternoon, Election Reform and Voting Rights (electionreform.gather.com): -------------------- A place to talk about election reform and voting rights, both to learn and to . . . Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:51:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976743866 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-12T21:51:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976743837 We get to rate articles on a scale of up to ten stars. Why? Practically speaking, it seems that if you really like an article and want to put it on the recommended list, you rate it 10. All the top articles . . . Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:42:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976743837 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-12T19:42:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976742703 I've run into an obstacle, and just now I spent a half hour looking around and it's still an obstacle: I can't find groups that are about things I'm interested in. I don't mean in . . . Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:16:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976742703 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-07T22:16:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976741914 I tried to upload a PNG file with a screen shot from Wiffiti that I thought was great and wanted to share... but Wiffiti screen shots are PNG files and Gather said only JPG is allowed. The image I want . . . Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:35:22 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976741914 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-04T18:35:22Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976741823 [ This is a slightly modified version of an article I wrote for Blue Mass Group ] As Andy noted on his blog last week, the 21st Century Democrats endorsed John Bonifaz for Secretary of the Commonwealth . . . Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:53:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976741823 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-04T16:53:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976741668 I just signed up and I'm trying out the system, so this is my first post: just to see how it works, what it looks like, where it shows up. For now, you can find my writing on other sites: My main . . . Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:41:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976741668 Ofer Inbar 2006-04-04T03:41:32Z