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The Now Web: Not Now, Or Not Yet?October 8

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I have my Stanford reunion coming up tomorrow. At the risk of dating myself, it's my twentieth. I wrote my thesis at Stanford on an Apple Macintosh, which required swapping out floppy discs in order to run Microsoft Word (on one) with my ever-expanding tome on the other. Drafts were printed on a dot matrix printer, and in the final weeks of each quarter Meyer Library was overcome with a chattering Morse-like din that I can recall to this day. It was our version of an echo chamber.

For we did not have email. We did not even have modems.

In preparation for the reunion, some of us have encouraged our classmates to join Facebook. Of a class of about 1650 students, around 300 of us are on Facebook, and 80 of those 300 have joined the reunion group page. Only ten of us have listed twitter accounts. Clearly, we belong to a different generation. We stand for the Not Now social media users. Or possibly, the Not Yet social media users.

I don't know if this speaks to a generation gap or an experience gap. But if I belong to a generation that "doesn't get" social media, it is not entire


American Express Members Project: 5 Days, 5 ProjectsOctober 8

There are only five days left to cast your vote for one of the final five projects vying for funding from American Express Members Projects (as I reported at /Ground). They will be giving away $2.5M to various projects, and you do not have to be a cardholder to vote:


Members Project, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

Please go and cast your vote!

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