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NASA releases brand new pictures taken from the improved Hubble telescope

Sombrero galaxy

Click on the image to see the first new images from the Hubble.

Creative Commons License photo credit: Poor Yorick

Today, NASA is celebrating the launch of the new iPod’s and the Beatle’s coming to iTunes by releasing some brand new images taken from the Hubble telescope.

These images are some of the most amazing yet!

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/25/image/

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How to dive into Web 2.0 social media culture

Today was my first day teaching Content Development for Web Pages or MASS 410 as it is described in the Mesa State College course catalog.

The catalog defines the course as:

Developing content for the World Wide Web for small businesses, non-profit organizations and media from a public relations perspective.
Development of content for public relations, advertising, marketing and sales, academic and news web sites. Electronic publications and on-line publishing policies and procedures. Methods of electronic journalism.

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I began the class by explaining that the class would not be a web design class. There were a buzz of joy. Only one student said she was disappointed that I would not be teaching how to design web pages.

The class seemed a little confused as I explained that they would develop websites, post articles, upload video and audio without learning how to design websites. Read the rest of this entry →

The non-partisan Organizing for American Obama Volunteer form

Organizing for America called for volunteers to help with Obama’s visit here in Grand Junction, CO. They held a meeting for those interested in setting up chairs, working the crowd, and some telephone stuff.

Once the meeting began, this form was passed out and it was explained that volunteers would be picked from those who followed the instructions on the form.

For Obama supporters, this assignment was likely an honor, for non-supporters it probably felt more like a hazing to prove your loyalty.