Me, Her, the Boy and a Dog
Also, I founded the GoFightWinVT Tumblr, so if you're a Hokie, give it a follow. And, feel free to check out my Project 365 Tumblr.
- Me: Currently reading up on PGP email encryption.
- Longtime Friend: I hear it's pretty good. (okay, nerdaciously horrible joke!!)
- Me: I expect nothing less!
- Mom: THANX...YOU ARE BRILLANT!!!!
- Me: I know.
- Mom: What would I do without you?
- Me: You'd probably be using MySpace.
- Mom: LMAO!!
This is an important precedent, and it happened here in the U.S.
Five workers fired for complaining about their jobs on Facebook will go back to work after the National Labor Relations Board ruled in their favor, affirming workers can safely vent their frustrations about the workplace on social networks.
The dust-up began last year when an employee at the non-profit agency Hispanics United of Buffalo vented on Facebook, on a non-working Saturday, about a co-worker’s accusation that she didn’t do enough for the organization’s clients.
Other co-workers chimed in to make comments like, “What the f… Try doing my job. I have 5 programs,” and “Tell her to come do [my] f***ing job n c if I don’t do enough, this is just dum.”
The co-worker saw the messages and passed them along to a supervisor, who fired the workers, citing the company’s social media policy banning cyber harassment of co-workers.
One of the terminated employees complained to the National Labor Relations Board. The judge, in the first social media case that didn’t involve a unionized workplace, ruled the employees were within their rights to converse among themselves about working conditions.
“The tradition of Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you’re gonna hear about it.” ~ Frank Castanza
One of my high school classmates added me to a Class of 1993 group on Facebook without my permission. Nice. But, I figured what the heck, I’ll go look. It’s basically people talking about skipping class, stealing grade books from teachers, getting trashed at beach week, asking “whatever happened to…” and confessing crushes 20 years later. It’s like Jerry Springer on a Facebook Wall. Good to know I haven’t missed anything by not keeping in touch.
Um… Facebook?
For starters, Facebook now allows you to choose the quality of your photo uploads. Last night, I noticed a new pop-up box when I was uploading My Boy’s soccer photos to my Facebook profile. You now have the option to upload photos in “Standard” or “High Resolution.”
Remember when you could only have a limited number of photos? And when you could only have 60 photos per album? Ah, how times have changed. Of course, if you choose the “High Resolution” option when uploading photos to Facebook, Mr. Zuckerberg is quick to remind you that it’ll take “10x longer” to upload.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
The other change with my interwebz is with Tumblr. First of all, when they’re down (which happens a lot more these days than it used it), we get a new “We’ll be back” page. I kinda dig it, but I wish I didn’t see it as much as I do. Oh well, I guess the fastest growing blogging platform will have some growing pains, but damn, it seems like they need their own Tumblr Fail Whale these days.
The good news out of Tumblr is the re-introduction of the newly designed “queue” feature. The old post queue hasn’t worked in quite some time, but yesterday, Tumblr announced the new queue feature, which allows you to write posts and then queue them up to be published when you want them. And if you have multiple posts in the queue, you can easily drag and drop to rearrange the order in which they’re published. Way cool. For example, this post was written last night, but scheduled to post this morning (10/6/2010) at 9:35 a.m.
So, even though I’m working on a new Website for my job this morning, it actually looks like I’m slacking off and writing completely inane posts about my interwebz.
Seriously though, this is a great tool for if you have a lot to say (even if it’s mostly about nothing), but don’t want to say it all at once. You can spread your posts out evenly to keep your content flowing. Check it out.
From my friend Sarah on Facebook … “You know you live in a college town when this is in your 7-Eleven!”
