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As you can tell, I change the theme on co-blog. Let me know if you’d rather have the old one back or to use one from the WordPress theme gallery.

Just thought I would share a few stats.

227 posts / 673 comments

Individual posts / comments
Me – 51 / 117 – not counting this one.
Jaime – 46 / 128
Alupa – 41 / 122
Trev – 37 / 86
Liz – 14 / 83
Beth – 12 / 11
Cpolonchek – 9 / 29
Kugreg – 9 / ??
Jb – 3 / ??
LaLaLiLoLa – 3 / ??
Merdawg – 1 / ??
Chandler – 1 / ??
Hkrebs – 1 / ??

Thank you everyone that contributes to this blog. It is a lot of fun reading what other people are thinking about.

I’ve upgraded Wordpress to the latest version. Things look quite different when you write a post. Though most of the functionality is the same. Categories are below the place where you write posts instead of to the right, so make sure you don’t miss categorizing your posts.

There was some discussion of possibly adding Google AdSense to the Coop, us clicking whenever we check in, and then giving that revenue to a charity of our choice. I also think it might be nice to add one or both of these links to click-to-donate compendiums to the blogroll.

http://www.oneclickatatime.org/          http://www.thenonprofits.com/

Discussion on these possibilities?

And even more interesting, what are your charities of choice and why?

wondering if there were updates, thoughts?

I have had an amazing couple of weeks. I have been doing evaluations for the OAs and have been having wonderful conversations.

This is also the time of the semester that everyone has settled in and my students come in to chat with me, dropping by for ‘no reason’ until we suddenly find the crisis. The high-powered meteorologist struggling between pure science and broadcasting, the affected artist finally smiling b/c thereis a photomedia major now. These two appts. were back-to-back. Ava needs to be drawn from the roof’s edge, while Hally and I talk in hushed tones about art and manual labor. Molly still trying to figure out if she is majoring in anything else other than Ultimate and SUA and Bridey near graduation and freaking out.

And today I spend 4 hours with computer programmers trying to figure out how the hell they think about the same project I thought I had a handle on.

And in my geography class grad. students were giving presentations, and one of them really got it and all I could think is that I wanted to sit in a room with him and use big words. These impulses to go back to school were as strong as they have been in months, if not years, yet I had one of the most fulfilling weeks advising I can remember.

I know, no choice is definite, but they feel so present.

Indeed.

BTW fellow cooperative bloggers if you want to embed video via YouTube, Google Video , Yahoo Video, et cetera, you need to make a change to your personal profile. Go to Profile and uncheck the “Use the visual editor when writing.” That will disable the quasi-WYSIWYG editor and make it possible to copy embeddable video code to your posts. Happy blogging.

You’ll notice a slight tweak to the site.  Recent comments and recent posts have been added to the left sidebar. That’s so good it’s almost tasty.

I updated the blog software that we are using. You’ll notice a few changes when you write a post and in a few other places. For those of you who like information and to read change logs, check out the changes. Let me know if you see any strange behavior or other fallout. Thanks.

For some reason a couple of posts got held in moderating purgatory and I had to approve them. Please try to comment here and email me if your stuff isn’t showing up.

Thanks Jaime.

Just wanted to drop a line and say that this is a really good idea (see title).

I’ve recently been moved to a cubicle due to some office politics and i think that this will be a great way of passing the time while thinking outside the box from the inside of a box.

Of course, it’s not easy to type when your fingers are constantly hovering over the hotkey command for minimizing your window, but who needs all ten fingers to type?