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OK, I joined Orkut. I hesitated because the BoingBoing people have been making fun of it, and apparently I must do everything Cory and Xeni tell me to do. So dougo invited me to it, and I said "meh". Then jjohn invited me to it, and... I still said "meh", but I clicked on the link in his invitation email and saw all these familiar and friendly ORA faces smiling back at me. Yes, sigh, OK. It's all for research, right? Finger on the pulse! The sacrifices we make.

You can go join if you want, and add me as a friend, if appropriate (I'm there under my real name and email address and so on). I dunno if I will ever send out any email invitations because, yes, "meh". Dunno if I'll ever fill out that personals-style information, either. Meanwhile, have been adding myself to 9,999,999 communities, which in some cases seem to have hundreds more members than their LiveJournal counterparts. The Perl community, for example, has 458 members.

But if you search for "perl", an earlier hit is for "I Hate Perl", with 2 members. And the first hit for "board games" is for a community called "bi poly kinky pagan gamer geek", which is almost exactly a local friend's summary description of the typical member of a certain local social circle, so I had to say har-d-har. (Friend is going nameless here to prevent incorrect association by proximity, ho ho.)

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[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I met Xeni at pop!tech. She was a little strange, actually. Her presentation wasn't really that good, due to most of have been contingent upon Kevin Sites doing a call in from the field in Iraq.