There are lots of sites out there with collections of how-to instructions and videos. From the wild west of almost anything on YouTube, to the extremely professional and in-depth software guides on Lynda.com, it’s usually easy to find something to help you out, if you’re willing to spend the time searching. Grovo is a new how-to video site …
Monthly Archive: March 2011
Mar 15 2011
Group Texting is so hot right now
SXSW is known as a geek battleground, where apps and ideas compete with one another for dominance. Last year, several location based apps likeFourSquare and SCVNGR fought, and FourSquare came out the industry leader. This year, the focus has been on Group Text applications. The first big Group Text application was from GroupMe, and most of the …
Mar 14 2011
Secular Coalition for America Blog
I thought, you know, being a semi-regular contributor to 3 blogs just wasn't enough. Sean Faircloth, who I have a total atheist political crush on, got in touch with me a few months ago to ask me if I wanted to help with his new project, creating a blog on the SCA site. The help …
Mar 12 2011
Deep Thought
Why is it easier to be proud of something you’re absolutely no good at than it is to be proud of something you are actually good at? Today, with writing money, I bought a sewing machine and made a skirt. It’s pretty crap, but whatever, I love it.
Mar 11 2011
75 Books: 21-25 Collins, Diamond, Lewis and Abignale
21. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins This is the 2nd in the Hunger Games trilogy and it isn't quite as strong as the first, but it expands on the universe that allowed the first one to happen. Weirdly, I had more suspension of disbelief issues with this one than I did with the other two …
Mar 09 2011
Dear Universe: Best Idea Ever
Alright, I have no idea how one takes two songs and mashes them up into a coherent piece, but I do know how one edits together pictures into a coherent piece and I do know two songs that were born to go together. Someone DO THIS. SERIOUSLY. It’s the Best Idea Ever and I will …
Mar 07 2011
Hitchens on 60 Minutes
I'm a member of a cancer elite. I rather look down on people with lesser cancers. I went to my mom's house for dinner last night and, as luck would have it, Hitch was on 60 minutes. My adoration of Mr. Hitchens is well covered on this blog, but suffice to say that while I …
Mar 06 2011
Testing Postling
Do any of you use social media management tools? I'd never even thought to look into them until the company I write for, Social Axcess, asked me to create some profiles of a couple SMSS sites. Right now I'm looking at Postling. I'm mostly looking at Postling because it's free, which is a huge draw …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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