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“Slap Some of This Powder on your Face, Paula Ryan” and More Media Baloney

September 14, 2007 in Ethics, communications, diversity, media, rants, technology, wireless

I’m in a bad mood lately about mainstream media. Here are some examples:
1. The Appalling video about Paula Ryan giving advice to librarians about how to dress.
A couple of points:

The dowdy librarian is nowhere close to my reality, where I see a wide group of well-groomed, smartly dressed and professional looking librarians [...]

Heart’s All A-Twitter

April 25, 2007 in GTD, communications, e-learning, technology, wireless

Well, I’ve had a twitter account for a while now, I just haven’t been ready to use it very much. I didn’t add friends or etc. and probably more confusing, I used my long-lost moniker “Greebie” as my login.
(Aside:  I’ve had “Greebie” as an alias since the 80s.   Back in the BBS days, [...]