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Making Email Useful
by Ofer Inbar
views: 21 | rating: 10 | comments: 3
April 26, 2006 12:59 PM EDT -- 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, . . . more
April 25, 2006 04:06 PM EDT -- 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 . . . more
April 21, 2006 02:23 PM EDT -- 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 . . . more
What are Connections for?
by Ofer Inbar
views: 51 | rating: 10 | comments: 7
April 21, 2006 01:38 AM EDT -- 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 . . . more
Burns Brothers
by Ofer Inbar
views: 18 | rating: 9.5 | comments: 3
April 15, 2006 01:14 PM EDT -- 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 . . . more
No Responses to Feedback
by Ofer Inbar
views: 9 | rating: 10 | comments: 6
April 14, 2006 07:35 PM EDT -- 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 . . . more
April 13, 2006 07:43 PM EDT -- 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, . . . more
April 13, 2006 01:30 AM EDT -- 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 . . . more
April 12, 2006 05:51 PM EDT -- 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 . . . more
Why a 10 point scale?
by Ofer Inbar
views: 8 | rating: 8.2 | comments: 7
April 12, 2006 03:42 PM EDT -- 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 . . . more
How to find groups?
by Ofer Inbar
views: 2 | rating: 10 | comments: 6
April 07, 2006 06:16 PM EDT -- 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 . . . more
April 04, 2006 02:35 PM EDT -- 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 . . . more
April 04, 2006 12:53 PM EDT -- [ 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 . . . more
April 03, 2006 11:41 PM EDT -- 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 . . . more
 
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