I'm not sure this can be called a blog post but I'm so excited about this I feel the best thing I can do is to send you to the source. Pop a bag of popcorn, pull up your easy chair, and watch as the future of online communication changes ineluctably.

It's the jiz.

Google Wave.

Watch this:

ClustrMaps User of the Month!

Yay! scottmerrick.net has been chosen as one of April 2009's "Users of the Month!" I'm lovin' it and I want to thank the fine folks at ClustrMaps.com for the honor and for the free upgrade! Yippee!!! See the whole announcement at their website!

User of the month
Every month we will feature a new ClustrMaps User Of The Month, and reward that user with a free ClustrMaps+ upgrade for 2 years.

April
2009
AUP Radio - Paris
Portrait Sculpture by Blake Ketchum
Stitch and Book
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Clustrmap reset and how to exercise while working!

It's happening again: My little lonely clustrmap (see sidebar) will be reset to zero in a few days, an annual event I'm guessing the folks at clustrmap hold in order to keep the most popular maps (like David Warlick's) from becoming solid red dots.

Awwwwwwww.

Well, it's been an interesting year, and I want to thank the thousands of readers who have visited scottmerrick.net in an effort to learn anything I have to share in my meanderings through this lifetime.

I also want to thank the folks at Clustrmaps for developing such an inspiring tool, one that is easy to use and that tells me that from April 1 of 2008 until this very moment in which I'm blogging about it, my little effort has been visited by 5,145 human beings from every continent (excepting Antarctica--hey, where are you, explorers!). That's encouraging to me, and it gives me hope for the future of the globe, a world where people are engaged in active learning about one another and interested in others outside of their own local, national, or regional geographic areas. Life(s) is good.

Speaking of which, I am into an exercise routine that makes my family laugh at me but which, in combination of it and healthier food and beverage choices, has lost me around 10 pounds in the last 6 weeks or so. Here's an 00V00 video that shows it in action. Just another geeky moment that I shared out this morning at PBS's new Frontline Digital Nation project.

Here's a link to the video.

Cheerio!