http://remtheory.com remtheory.com: Musings on society, media, culture and tech from a tech geek girl Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:00:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I cannot live without Google Reader, but I've heard from quite a few of my rss-friendly friends lately that they are overwhelmed by their reader. Fair enough. It's not easy when that tab in your browser is taunting you with "Google Reader (1000+)". On top of all the responsibilities we ... http://remtheory.com/?p=143 I've finally caved and now belong to the world of twitter. God, I feel so generic. Everyone I know who is on twitter now has had this dilemma and has eventually "succumbed" to twitter. But there was a confluence of events that brought me to it. My ED started talking about ... http://remtheory.com/?p=140 Wow, this is incredible. Joe, I had a crush on you in high school when you led the Clarence Thomas hearings and never did I think this could be a reality. Two amazing politicians who believe in so much of what I believe on the cusp of running the country. ... http://remtheory.com/?p=133 Absolutely fantastic. Another reason I love Obama and his campaign style. Fight the Smears  http://remtheory.com/?p=132 Oh Hil, why couldn't you speak to us? Are you too busy talking to the white working class democrats? Telling your man to hush up and stop stealing the limelight? Have you forgotten about us liberal intellectual gals who rock the Web? Barack hasn't. Just more evidence that just because ... http://remtheory.com/?p=131 Why limit myself to REMTheory when there are other fabulous girly geeks like myself with a desire to write nerd? You can read about my experience at the Berkman@10 Conference there. http://remtheory.com/?p=130 Does this smack of ageism? Perhaps. Is it fun AND educational? Most definitely. Who knew penicillin has been around for less time than McCain? My new favorite website... http://www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com/  http://remtheory.com/?p=129 Okay, we know Barack is a wonderful orator and he's managed to make the primary election anything but inevitable. But guess what... it's not just a show. He's got smart people supporting him and he's great on the issues, too. I for one am getting a little tired of all the ... http://remtheory.com/?p=128 2004 was, I felt, a watershed moment for the American people... in a bad way. I somehow have managed to find some hope after the Iowa caucus. Elections really aren't inevitable. Every vote really does matter. And given all the crap that's going on today, some of us can even ... http://remtheory.com/?p=127 This is so exciting! I use Flickr to house my own photos and I'm thrilled to say we use Flickr at work, too, but what the Library of Congress is proposing is really revolutionary in that a very large, extremely credible and federal (!!) institution is venturing into ... http://remtheory.com/?p=125