I love spanakopita. I make it at least once a month.

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It would be the ultimate show-biz stunt: fake your own death.

I have noticed in the past couple of days odd miscommunications and widespread crankiness among many of my colleagues - not necessarily directed towards me, just general touchiness. Since many are in the NYC area, perhaps it is the effect of nearly three weeks of rain. I also considered Mercury in retrograde, but it has actually just returned.

I received an odd message accusing me of being behind a jealous cadre attacking a neophyte blog journalist, and perhaps also orchestrating a virus attack, a full-blown "psy war." Since I respect the writer's work, I tried to counsel her - and I was eventually ordered to refrain from all contact.

I do not usually make my infrequent flame wars public, but this one is truly irrational:

To: "rgoya@yahoo.com"
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 9:56:33 AM
Subject: Please post on your screed site.

Randall:  

If you think being vindictive and malicious is the correct behavior to exhibit when someone drops you from their Linked In connections list - well, what can I say? You are showing the world that you are not a gentleman.

 

I would appreciate your correcting two glaring errors in your epistolary exhibition, however.

 

First of all, calling someone who has written for major magazines for 35 years or so a "neophyte blogger" is absolutely idiotic - as everyone who knows me realizes. I've published over 3,000 magazine articles. How many have you published?

The Demise of Web Content Management: How to Innovate More Quickly with Open-Source Social Publishing

On June 18, 2009 Acquia presented an eSeminar about Web Content Management.

The panelists were Kathleen Reidy, an analyst from the 451 Group (whom I met the previous day at a presentation by Squiz) and Bryan House, Marketing Director at Acquia.

The seminar was primarily oriented at publishers who are keeping up with trends in social publishing, and presented Aquia's brand of "supported" Drupal as a solution.

I asked one of the questions at the end, about how a web developer can leverage the services of Acquia to add value to a project for a client.

The one-hour recorded presentation will be available until either December 18, 2009 or June 10, 2010.

Launch the player, which I could not scale so it will scroll out of the iframe. 

Boise man's hobby turns into Locavore Network

Several years ago, Dan Sutton tried to find an old peach orchard that his family used to visit in Kansas when he was a kid.

What started as a hobby on a spreadsheet is now more than 15,000 grower profiles on Sutton's Web site, www.LocavoreNetwork.com. It took two years to complete and was published in mid-May.

Although Sutton had played around with different Web tools for years, building the database was difficult, he said. Everyone had their own way of compiling grower information. He used personal funds to hire Web developer Randall Goya, who understood what Sutton was trying to do.

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