OtterBoxs save digital electronic gear

I am a huge fan of OtterBoxs. Their products are amazing. Hubby and I have quite a collection, we store most all of our portable digital things in OtterBox cases of one sort or another.

I got on the OtterBox kick after having lost all of the zip disks in my backpack when I got caught in a hellishly heavy rain storm on campus about four years ago.  Water was not a good thing for the disks...in fact there was so much water that I could literally pour it out of things in my backpack. So I bought a box to hold the zip disks that replaced those that were lost.  Now that box holds my portable hard drive and the cables required to use it with my laptop.

I noticed today, after ordering an iPod case from them, that they now make a case for the Fujitsu Stylus. Now that is cool. Makes a tablet PC a bit more attractive.

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July Advisory Committee Update

One of the benefits of doing monthly Advisory Committee Updates is I get to actually layout everything, degree related, I did during the month in one place. So often if you had asked me in conversation what I did last month I would have simply said "nothing." Going through this process makes it obvious to me how much I am doing. A very good reminder to be sure.

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Do adults blog? I thought it was only teens!

Weblogg-ed has a post on Myspace Addiction.

So the bad news is that after more delays and groundings, I finally got home at about 1:30 a.m. yesterday morning. Oy. The good (?) news was that I got to sit next to 16-year old girl blogger from Seattle on the first leg of my flight and we had a really interesting talk about the state of adolescent journaling online. In a word, it seems she and her friends are "addicted" to their Myspace sites. Seems they spend more time than they should reading and commenting to each other, even though they've just seen each other at school. And she told me stories of her friends putting all sorts of private information and pictures online, even though she said she didn't do that. And it seems they're not doing a heck of a lot of blogging (v.), that most of what they do is just basically IM each other on their sites. I asked her if they used blogs at her school and she kind of chuckled. "Not really. I mean we read blogs sometimes; we use them for research." I pressed her on how that worked, but she was vague on the details. At one point I was tempted to pull out my iPod and capture the conversation digitally, but I resisted. Would have been interesting. She was smart, the kind of kid whose blog probably would have been a pretty good read.

So when I told her about the article I'd just read that said that kids are doing a lot of real writing online, she said, "Oh, I used to do that at my Live Journal site." Hmmm... Seems she wrote volumes in real sentences there. She told me, however, that even though she kept all of her posts private to just her friends, her mom found out about it when she read all the friends' posts. That was pretty much the end of that. Now this girl consciously tries to not spend too much time at Myspace, even though, she admitted, it's hard not to. She seemed surprised when I told her I was a blogger. She was also decidedly unimpressed when I told her what I blogged about. "Oh, that's cool," she said before moving on to a story about a girl whose mother found her "blog" and grounded her for a month.

So, what does this mean? I dunno. My brain is still numb from the trip. And much of this isn't news, I know. But it was an interesting hour, one that just confirmed a lot of what I (we) already knew. But here's the most telling moment, at least to me. As we were descending into Memphis, she goes "You know, I think you're the only grown up blogger I've ever met."

What a surprise...

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New posting categories

I've created three new categories for posts now that I have more capacity for such things.  They are called:  Memes...rolling along, Native American Flutes (NAF)...and the people who love them, and Software & Hardware...Oh my.  I'll be adding more categories shortly to better describe the content of the site.  Of course I'm still debating on the use of tags...we shall see on that one.  Links are also available on the left sidebar under "Categories".

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New NAF flute, F#min

Well everyone needs to make a few mistakes in purchasing handmade items. This flute is that for me. It has a lovely tone - which is the important part - and finish, but there are a few problems that I should have caught in the advert but didn't.

The following are things I noticed immediately upon playing the instrument for the first time.

- The fourth hole (from the top) is MUCH larger then the others and slightly off center.  The eBay advert did state the diameter of the holes and I should have noticed that the others are a max of .395 while this one is listed as .53, but I didn't catch that issue.  So it's my problem if I miss the nose on my face.

- The distance between the fingering holes is somewhat narrow for my fingers. The distance is listed as 1 inch over all with 1.55 inches between the third and fourth (from the top) holes. Good to know for future purchases.  *makes a mental note, 1+ inches required.*  As it is I have to modify my playing so I can fit all my fingers into the available space.

- Overall the flute is short for my stance, it's listed as 21 inches long. I think I need to stick with longer ones...hence more spacing between finger holes and from the fetish to the end, more nose room as it were.

- Oh and speaking of nose...as my hubby said when he saw the flute "May the bird of paradise fly up your nose" which would, I guess, be preferable to the darn thing backing up one's nose as this bird does.  LOL NAF fetishes seem to be interesting creatures in their own right.  Personally I prefer smaller less obtrusive things that near my face, though some of the carved ones are just gorgeous.  I do like this mockingbird even if he is to large for the flute.  Maybe I'll move him to another flute someday.

Again it has a very nice sound so I don't regret the purchase at all. As with most things in life we need to crawl a bit before we walk, or spend sizable amounts of cash in this case.

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Hacking Movable Type

Just got my copy of:

Allen, Jay, Choate, Brad, Hammersley, Ben, Haughey, Matthew, & Raynes, David (2005). Hacking Movable Type. Indianapolis IN: Wiley.

Now I'm armed and dangerous. LOL  Hopefully it will help me continue some of the improvements that have been made around here.  *S*

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CFP - ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships

Found via vlog 3.0 [a blog about vogs]:

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce its new Digital Innovation Fellowship program, in support of digitally based research projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These fellowships, created with the generous help of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project of a digital character that advances humanistic studies and best exemplifies the integration of such research with use of computing, networking, and other information technology-based tools. The online application for the fellowship program is located at http://ofa.acls.org; applications must be completed by November 10, 2005 (decisions to be announced in late March 2006).

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Leaving your legacy

Culture Cat this morning has a post, Linkage: mostly outrageous, but two bright spots, on the problems of orphan academic works pointing to a Chronicle article.

The good news is, today's Chronicle has an article about orphan works, which I hope will raise some awareness among scholars about the obstructive qualities of copyright. From the article (link added):

In response to the U.S. Copyright Office's request for comments, Cornell University librarians added up the money and time spent clearing copyright on 343 monographs for a digital archive of literature on agriculture. Although the library has spent $50,000 and months of staff time calling publishers, authors, and authors' heirs, it has not been able to identify the owners of 58 percent of the monographs.

"In 47 cases we were denied permission, and this was primarily because the people we contacted were unsure whether they could authorize the reproduction or not," says Peter B. Hirtle, who monitors intellectual-property issues for Cornell's libraries. "Copyright is supposed to advance the sciences and arts, and this is copyright becoming an impediment to the sciences and arts."

Restrictions on using orphan works, often imposed by risk-averse lawyers at colleges and museums, affect scholarly work in ways large and small.

As academics if we care about our legacy and future access to our work we should be assigning our copyright ourselves and then doing so with that person's knowledge and understanding of our wishes and their obligations. In essence if we have publications we never die without "property". Is the copyright law the real issue or is the problem that academics don't plan for this eventuality? From the article the answer is at best unclear.  Think about this issue when you are doing your estate planning. Even planning can't always make sure that someone can find the new copyright owner but it goes a long way toward resolving the problem without making substantive changes to a problematic law that will probably make the law more problematic.

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PEW Report released - Teens and Technology: Youth are leading the transition to a fully wired and mobile nation

The press release for the report and links follow. I'm very pleased to have received an acknowledgment in the report for assisting "with and feedback on the survey instrument for the telephone survey associated with the report" I was and am happy to help.

Teens Forge Forward with the Internet and Other New Technologies

The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.  Compared to four years ago, teens' use of the internet has intensified and broadened as they log on more often and do more things when they are
online.

Among other things, there has been significant growth over the past four years in the number of teens who play games on the internet, get news, shop online, and get health information.

In short, today's American teens live in a world enveloped by communications technologies; the internet and cell phones have become a central force that fuels the rhythm of daily life.

These are some of the highlights of a new report, "Teens and Technology," issued by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, based on a November 2004 survey of 1,100 youth between the ages of 12 and 17 and their parents:

*About 21 million teens use the internet and half of them say they go online every day.
*51% of online teens live in homes with broadband connections.
*81% of wired teens play games online, which is 52% higher than four years ago.
*76% of online teens get news online, which is 38% higher than four years ago.
*43% have made purchases online, which is 71% higher than four years ago.
*31% use the internet to get health information, which is 47% higher than four years ago.

Not only has the number of users increased, but also the variety of technologies that teens use to support their communication, research, and entertainment desires has grown.  When asked about their individual ownership of networked devices such as desktop and laptop computers, cell phones, and blackberries, 84% of teens reported owning at least one of these devices. Some 45% of teens have their own cells phones and many own several devices that can connect to the internet.

"Increasing numbers of teenagers live in a world of nearly ubiquitous computing and communication technologies that they can access at will,"  said Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist at the project and co-author of the report. "More and more teens go online frequently and from a wider array of places. They take ever-greater advantage of this new technology ecology by mastering features like instant messaging and phone-text messaging on their tethered and mobile computing devices."

These technologies enable a variety of methods and channels by which youth can communicate with one another as well as with their parents and other authorities.  Email, once the cutting edge "killer app," is losing its privileged place among many teens as they express preferences for instant messaging (IM) and text messaging as ways to connect with their friends.

Fully 75% of online teens use instant messaging and the average amount of time spent instant messaging in a day has increased over the last four years. One third of all American teens have sent a text message.  Nonetheless, the trusty telephone remains the most often cited communication technology used by teens.

In focus groups, teens described their new environment. To them, email is increasingly seen as a tool for communicating with "adults" such as teachers, institutions like schools, and as a way to convey lengthy and detailed information to large groups. Meanwhile, IM is used for everyday conversations with multiple friends that range from casual to more serious and private exchanges.

It is also used as a place of personal expression. Through buddy icons or other customization of the look and feel of IM communications, teens can express and differentiate themselves. Other instant messaging tools allow for the posting of personal profiles, or even "away" messages, durable signals posted when a user is away from the computer but wishes to remain connected to their IM network.

Mary Madden, Research Specialist and co-author of the report notes, "Away messages, in effect, maintain a "presence" in this virtual IM space, even when a teen isn't directly tied to a technology. Away messages aren't just telegraphing location, but may include any type of information, such as in-jokes, quotes, coded messages or even contact information."

Teens, too, are accessing the internet from a variety of locations, including their homes, schools, community centers, libraries, and friends' and relatives' houses.  It seems that teens may come to expect access to the virtual world from any physical world location.

*87% of teens have ever logged on from home

*78% of teens log on from school

*74% of teens log on from a friend or relative's house

*54% of teens log on at the library

*9% of teens log on from a community center, youth center or house of worship

Leading the way are older teenaged girls, who are putting burgeoning technologies to use to support their already honed communication styles.  Girls ages 15-17-year-old are the power users of the online teen cohort.  Older girls dominate in use of email, IM, text messaging, and selected
information-seeking activities:

*97% of girls 15-17 have used instant messaging, compared to 89% of
younger boys and girls and 87% of older boys

*57% of older girls have ever sent a text message compared 40% of older boys

*51% of older girls have bought something online

*79% of girls 15-17 have gone online to search for information about a school they might attend, vs. 70% of older boys.

*Older girls are more likely to search for information on health topics both mundane and sensitive, for spirituality or religious information, and for entertainment topics like favorite sports or movie stars or TV programs.

The full report may be accessed from:
http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=162

Also the Project recently released a short data memo on the American public's recognition of various "tech terms." You can read the Tech Term Awareness memo at:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/161/report_display.asp 

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A humor meme

the Wit (82% dark, 34% spontaneous, 11% vulgar)

your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean you're pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor takes the most effort to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion. Also, you probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais

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The lastest Pew Internet and American Life Project report on teens and technology

Keep your ears to the ground and your eyes on the Pew Internet and American Life Project page their report on teens and technology is to be released later this afternoon.  Better yet grab their RSS feeds in your reader.

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KnowledgeWorkshop Professional Student Edition

I just ordered a copy of KnowledgeWorkshop Professional Student Edition.  I think it will help me track my multiple research projects, it has been very helpful during the testing period.  AND don't you love their titling on the order form?  I've never before gotten a discount because I am a "professional student."  LOL

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CFP - 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities

4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
January 11 - 14, 2006
Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA

Submission Deadline:  August 23, 2005

Sponsored by:
East West Council for Education
Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org

The 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held from January 11 (Wednesday) to January 14 (Saturday), 2006 at the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu,
Hawaii.  The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.  Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome. Performing artists (live dance, theater, and music)
interested in displaying their talents will be accommodated whenever possible.

Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts and Humanities are Invited):

*Anthropology
*American Studies
*Archeology
*Architecture
*Art
*Art History
*Dance
*English
*Ethnic Studies
*Film
*Graphic Design
*History
*Landscape Architecture
*Languages
*Literature
*Linguistics
*Music
*Performing Arts
*Philosophy
*Religion
*Second Language Studies
*Speech/Communication
*Theatre
*Visual Arts
*Other Areas of Arts and Humanities
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas.

The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities encourages the following types of papers/abstracts/submissions for any of the listed areas:

Research Papers - Completed papers.
Abstracts - Abstracts of completed or proposed research.
Student Papers - Research by students.
Work-in-Progress Reports or Proposals for future projects.
Reports on issues related to teaching.

For detailed information about submissions see:
http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm

Submitting a Proposal:

1.  Create a title page for your submission.  The title page should include:

a.  title of the submission
b.  topic area of the submission (chooses from above list)
c.  presentation format (see http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm for format choices)
d.  name(s) of the author(s)
e.  department(s) and affiliation(s)
f.  mailing address(es)
g.  e-mail address(es)
h.  phone number(s)
i.  fax number(s)
j.  corresponding author if different than lead author

2. Email your abstract and/or paper, along with a title page, to humanities@hichumanities.org. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged via email within 48 hours.

Please note that there is a limit of two contributed submissions per lead author.

Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
P.O. Box 75036
Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 949-1456
Fax: (808) 947-2420

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A New Model to Improve Social Network Mapping

David Pollard at has an interesting post on A New Model to Improve Social Network Mapping.  Following is a taste of the entry but read the whole thing to get a full flavor.

 To do so, I began thinking about communities as they function in the gift economy (or as I prefer to call it, the generosity economy). -- the growing economy that includes open source, the Internet, scientific knowledge sharing, much foundation and NGO work, blogs, file sharing and a host of other 'price-less' exchanges of value. How could we redefine the social constructs of the market economy to suit the framework of the gift economy? Here's what I came up with:

Market/Ownership Economy	Gift/Generosity Economy
Customer	Those you give to
Supplier	Those who give to you
Employee, Profession, Industry	Those you work with
Town, State, Nation	Those you live with
Family, Friends	Those you love

If you use the more inclusive gift/generosity economy constructs, your communities, networks and identities within them merge into these five broad 'circles', and the need to distinguish between social and business communities, networks and identities disappears. In a sense this is what is already happening as more of us cease drawing the line between our social and business identities and lives, and as more and more of what we do, powered by the Internet, is done without expectation of financial compensation.

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Comments ON by Default

One nice thing about the upgrade of Movable Type, that has been taking place on the blog, is that I can again set comments on by default.  I'm hoping that I can leave them on but we shall see how much of a problem spam will be in both comments and trackbacks. I'm running a couple of anti-spam plugins to try to keep this to a minimum.  In the perfect world I should not have to delete a single inappropriate thing...but this is a less then perfect world isn't it.

p.s. If you post a comment and it doesn't show up after a day or two, please let me know I may need to tweak the filters...I want the good stuff to get through just want to keep the spam out.

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Bloggers need not apply, redux or the US framework of employment

Clancy has an interesting post on Bloggers need not apply, redux (opens in a new window). Pull up her text and have a read before you go forward with this post, I need to contextualize.  p.s.  Comments apply only to U.S. situations.

The NYTimes has it spot on. You see employers don't legally have to like what you do as a person.  So they have lots of outs when you do something they don't like especially when the legal framework of case law hasn't caught up to the technology. For example you can legally hold a second job, unless you specifically signed that right away through a contract, but your primary employer can control where you get that second job.  So a Wendy's manager can't moonlight as a Burger King/Carl's Jr. fry cook.  Or a parochial school teacher can't have a second job as a stripper.  Why?  Because the second job reflects poorly on the image the first employer wants to create and both examples create links between two companies that the first employer wouldn't want to have in place.  This issue has been tested in court and held to be true.

I think this is the same general logic that some employers have been applying to blogging.  So Delta Airlines canned Ellen Simonetti for her blog, and in particular her picture on the blog, because it created an image of the company that they didn't want.  Of course had the same photos been taken for private consumption, not to be posted on the web, and the company had found out I expect she would have received a warning or a short layoff but I don't expect she would have been canned over them.  It's only when the photos the employer views as inappropriate were published online that it rose to a firing issue.

You see until the legal framework catches up anything is legal that isn't explicitly stated as illegal, like the EEO laws cited in the article. "Laws prevent employers [hiring entities, as well] from acting against employees [or applicants] on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion or disability - and, in some places, sexual orientation. Many workers have few other protections, employment lawyers said" (comments added).  Until some protection is given to bloggers, which under the current climate I don't expect will ever happen, then employers must take existing case law and regulation and try to slot the current situation into the framework so that there is a good logical basis for what they do.  In essence that makes it much easier for employers to pass on hiring someone for something they find a problem, because until they make the hire they are not the employer...they are just an entity with a job opening which means there are very few rules to protect the applicant. 

I think it's safe to add that academic freedom is a concept that appears to only apply to faculty and from one employer to their employees.  (I haven't spent any time reading academic freedom legal cases so if I have this wrong send me an email and I'll update the post with a revision.)  So faculty member Adams can write most anything he/she wants at Institution A where he is a tenured professor without much fear of reprisal...at least not formally.  However if he/she applies to Institution B for a position that institution can pass on hiring him/her because of the writings.  Of course they can hire if they want to...nothing prevents that from happening.

So as with anything else in employment the employer/hiring entity holds most of the cards it's up to the employee/applicant to try to fit their mold.

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The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences

There is a handy new tool created through a collaboration between the International Information Issues SIG and the European and New England chapters of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Bookmark The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences.

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Ethics in Blogging

I don't have a complete citation on this yet, I'll edit the post when I do, but I wanted to get this link out to everyone now. I found reference to this report, Ethics in Blogging (2005), via my PubSub searches and it looks very useful.

Report Summary:

As the prevalence and social influence of weblogs continue to increase, the issue of the ethics of bloggers is relevant not only to the blogging community, but also to people outside it.

This study explored ethical beliefs and practices of two distinct groups of bloggers--personal and non-personal--through a worldwide web survey. Over a period of three weeks, 1,224 responses were collected and analysed.

Our findings show that these two groups are distinctively different in demographics, blogging experiences, and habits. We also found that there are significant differences between personal and non-personal bloggers in terms of the ethical beliefs they value and the ethical practices to which they adhere.

Key Findings:

Our findings indicate that 73% of the bloggers surveyed said that their weblogs are personal while the remaining 27% said that their weblogs are non-personal. Further investigation of, these two groups revealed many significant differences between personal and non-personal bloggers.

Demographics

Non-personal bloggers are typically older males, with more formal years of education than personal bloggers.

Blogging Experiences and Habits

Non-personal bloggers tend to have more readers, update their weblogs more frequently, and spend more time on their weblogs.

Non-personal bloggers' reasons for blogging, the people whom they write about, and their primary intended audience are also different from those of personal bloggers.

Ethical Beliefs and Practices

Personal and non-personal bloggers value and adhere to four ethical principles differently. For instance, personal bloggers believe that minimizing harm is more important than non-personal bloggers.

For both groups of bloggers, they believe attribution is the most important and accountability the least important.

The degree of association between ethical beliefs and practices is different for personal and non-personal bloggers: in general, the level of correspondence between what people believe and what they do is higher for non-personal bloggers than personal bloggers.

Both types of bloggers are quite ambivalent about whether any kind of a code is necessary.

The findings in our study indicated that personal and non-personal bloggers are indeed distinct groups of bloggers. Their demographics, blogging experiences and habits, as well as ethical beliefs and practices are different.

In addition, bloggers currently do not see a strong need for a blogging code of ethics. A code of ethics may be more valued and adhered to when bloggers' themselves see a stronger need for it.

Also, the four ethical principles have different relevance to personal and non-personal bloggers and researchers should take that into consideration if they attempt to devise new codes of ethics for blogging.

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EFF15 Blog-a-thon

An announcement from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that ran across the AoIR listserv.

 For the past 15 years, EFF has been fighting to preserve  the constitutional right to freedom of expression on the Internet.  In the last few years, we've seen an explosion of expression as new web publishing tools emerged, providing countless netizens with their own personal First
Amendment machines.  This month is our 15th anniversary and to celebrate, we're putting these publishing tools front and center.  We're holding an EFF15 Blog-a-thon where you're invited to blog about your personal experiences fighting for freedom online — a project to celebrate new publishing tools, attract new EFF members, and mark our 15th all at once.

We want to hear about your "click moment" — the very first step you to took to stand up for your digital rights - whether it was blogging about an issue you care about, participating in a demonstration, writing your representatives, or getting involved with EFF.

As a thank you, we've enlisted an independent panel of judges to choose from among your posts for "Most Inspirational," "Most Humorous," and "Best Overall."  At the end of the Blog-a-thon, we'll announce the names of the three bloggers with the best posts on our website and in EFFector.  We'll also publish the three best posts on our site and send the authors a blogging "kit" as an extra thank you: an EFF bloggers' rights T-shirt, special EFF-branded blogger pajama pants, a pound of coffee, and a pair of fuzzy slippers!

Follow the links below for details on how to participate and watch the Blog-a-thon - and for extra inspiration, check out the posts by EFF staff members and interns describing their first steps in fighting for online freedom:

Join the EFF15 Blog-a-thon:
<http://www.eff.org/bloggers/eff15>

Deep Links - EFF15:
<http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/cat_eff15.php>

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