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Today's number 6 most active search on Yahoo is "Leatherback Turtles". This article tells the story of the latest in an increasingly familiar environmental story. We (citizens of the world) are living on an earth with 90% fewer Leatherbacks than existed 20 years ago.

In a previous post I wrote about the difference between Social Networking with features and Features with social networking. The New York Times has an interesting article entitled "Social Networking's Next Phase" (here for a "free" version or here for the NYTimes - login required - version).

Well it seems that Al's great grandfather was a slave on Strom's family farm. Who knew?

Datamation has identified 10 business leaders in OpenSource. Wow - things are really moving along rapidly.

Social Networks, in all their forms, are a central organizing paradigm. Our values, education, health, diet, vacation destination, favorite drugs and sex partners are generated and propagated through Social Networks. These networks may not determine our choices, but they certainly influence them; they are inextricably bound to how we make our choices. If the Social Networks we inhabit don't provide or accept our choices, more often then not we'll go and find new ones.

We've risen and breakfasted and are starting the offsite now. I'll probably post later about my epic trip to New Orleans from Oakland yesterday (short version - "Don't Ever Fly American Airlines"). There are 16 of here this morning (2 more arriving later today) and we've split into work groups and are working on upgrading our website.

Personally I'm looking forward to a healthy and happy 2007. My personal life is great and I can honestly say that I'm very happy. The same for my worklife. My work life at CivicActions is everything I want and need right now and I can honestly say that this has been the most exciting, rewarding and creative work experience I have ever been a part of. Now for the not so good stuff.

Today we crossed a threshold of 3000 dead service people in Iraq. This is even more pointed for me as I read

hat should I do?

Here is a release of MapThing. This Drupal 4.7 module allows people to create a Google Map for their website and display a CiviCRM group plotted on it.

I have seen the future of the web...

PodZinger is amazing.