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Friend Gary Leatherman updated a classic Apple ad as a tribute to Steve.

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Always worth another look.

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Somewhere back in the 80s, I started to learn how to use a computer, a
PC running DOS. Just couldn’t get it and the frustrated person at the
Metro State computer lab finally led me to a Mac. I’m guessing an SE.
I never looked back. It was an amazing tool. Thanks, Steve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

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Bob Garfield has a great piece at his AdAge blog on the whole Facebook-Burson thing (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The ‘Truth’ About Facebook PR Gaffe). In part, he says that Facebook’s current slimy tactics make David Fincher’s film The Social Network look more like reality than fiction. It’s a good read and got me writing. (Thanks, Bob.) (And thanks to @dsearls for linking me.) I’ve said this before to whoever will listen (short of ranting on street corners) but the future of our personal engagements on the Internet is going to be more twitter-like and google-like than facebook-like. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not necessarily going to be the current corporate Twitter entity or the Google entity (although that’s much more likely) but it’s definitely not going to be the Facebook entity unless they steer their corporate battleship in an entirely new direction (and they could do that just as Microsoft did with the dawn of Internet Explorer). Or unless we cede control of the Internet to AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, etc. You can be sure that Facebook will fit in very comfortably with that group.

Facebook, like the AOL of the 90s, is trying to wall us in so our Total Internet Experience is The Facebook Experience. This is antithetical to the nature of the Internet where the next thing is a link away and where the ecology has grown by leaps and bounds with no help from Facebook. The Internet does not need to be a walled garden and that idea has no benefits for Internet denizens. There is lots to support that the walled garden idea benefits Facebook’s corporate model which is to sell as much of your personal information as it can get away with to other corporate entities. Yes, if you scan my Twitter feed you will find personal info but this is the info that I choose to share. Facebook shares whatever it can get away with. Bonus Link: Doc Searls talks about moving tweeting from Twitter which is an excellent idea.

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Tomorrow at 11 Toby Cryns (the Mighty Mo guy) and I will be hosting a WordPress Geekout at Minnewebcon. We did this once before at the MIMA Summit and had a great time and the participants were very engaged. We’ll share a few wordpressy things we’ve learned or stumbled upon and try to answer any and all questions. We encourage all in attendance to share their WordPress tips too. We won’t involve ourselves in the WordPress vs. Drupal debate.

So if you’re at Minnewebcon, consider dropping by our session at 11!

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I tweeted this image out earlier with a link to the Secrets of the City site where I found it. But I wanted a bigger picture of it and found one at the MPR story (linked from SOTC). MPR (and SOTC) attributed the image to MN DHS and I decided to try and find the original. “DHS” is the Department of Human Services which seemed an odd place for this photo to start from. I wondered if they actually meant “Department of Homeland Security.” I was right but Homeland Security isn’t DHS it’s DPS (Department of Public Safety) or SEOC (State Emergency Operations Center) and HSEM (Homeland Security Emergency Management). I guess it was easier to borrow the Human Services acronym.

The original (plus another Valleyfair shot among others) is over at an HSEM site in the slide show.

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