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Forum RSS feeds

For those (like me) who prefer using RSS to going to a webpage, we now have RSS feeds for the forum.  At the top level, there is a feed of all new topics in all forums:

Weekly Snippets, 4/21/2008

My day job is at Google, where there has long been a tradition of the “weekly snippet”.  This is a short summary written every Monday about what you did last week and what you plan to do this week, automatically indexed so you can search them or look at someone’s snippets.  It’s a nice way to keep track of what other people are doing, and I’d like to bring snippets to TSI.  Here are some snippets for our first public week:

Website formatting fubared

Some of the recent set of website changes, probably installing the GUI editor, seems to have broken the formatting of the site, specifically by removing paragraph tags.  Sorry about that!  I’ve fixed some of the pages by hand, but the rest will have to wait until our Drupal coder fixes the bug.

Made To Stick

This morning I took a leadership class that used the principles from Made To Stick, a fascinating book about what I’d call “memetic engineeering”. The authors try to figure out what makes some ideas spread so fast, even when they are false (like urban legends), so that those principles can be applied to spread important true ideas.

Today’s updates

  • Lasse notes that the UC Boulder talks I gave in 2005 are up on Google Video, here’s a page with them embedded.
  • I’m working on job descriptions for some paid staff and volunteers we’re looking for.
  • Lots of small website bugs fixed. More still to come.
  • Some more “user properties” have been added, you can click on your name on the upper right, then click Edit to fill them in.