I’ve been reading blogs centered around news from the West Coast for far too long now – let’s see about putting the Upstate on the East Coast’s IT map along with RTP & Atlanta!

While I envision the group being mostly about web technologies, I look forward to whatever others want to bring to the table – as long as it is IT related.

Hopefully it won’t center around job searching like 1000 other groups out there do already – I’m thinking just plain ol’ IT talk, whether it be web design, web technologies, SEO/SEM, webmaster, standards, OSS, security, programming, etc.

It took a month, but I finally realized that FB wasn’t giving anything back – sure, I hooked up with a few ol’ Navy buddies, and a few that turned out not being friends after all – but in the end, all I see FB good for is people that need somebody to talk to, and want a site to go to for a bad UX.

Good-bye Facebook. Now I can spend more time improving my web design skills…

* UPDATE: Yea, that didn’t happen – guess I needed more coffee or something…

While it may be good for the soul, my muscles are feeling a little different about the subject after helping out the other day. Actually, they’re not really that bad, but let’s face it, it’s not the same as sitting at this computer all day.

The foundation hadn’t been laid yet – not even the plumbing – so we built walls all day and piled them up for use later.

I was surprised at what a strong turnout there was for the event, which was great, so I’ll be back next Friday to see how far along the foundation has come.

With over 13K saves to my Delicious bookmarking account, it’s safe to say that I’m slightly ahead of average-Joe when it comes to technology news – although I don’t own an iPod or a gaming platform, and I hate text-messaging!

So it’s oddly funny to hear this dude predict that “normal people” will use twitter in five years – in his dreams maybe. Nothing will get me to text message every little nook and cranny of my life on a little handheld device all day.

A subset of Knol (Google’s version of Wikipedia), has finally emerged. Participants of The Google Debates can vote for and discuss various topics online now.

It is being pushed out as a site that think tanks are going to reference for our input:

“Leading think tanks debate key policy topics of this years election. They want to hear from you so please voice your opinion through comments and suggested edits.”

So are think tanks really gonna check Google Debates before publishing their views? I doubt it… However, one interesting outcome of this would be if our political candidates and officials paid attention to it, or at least had a member of their inner-circle cruise it every once in a while. Now that would be a democracy!