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This is annoying. After posting on Sunday about the JotSpot family site, I signed up to give it a test drive. I started playing with the family tree a bit, adding in a few generations and linking people up. The UI was pretty straightforward, adding people was easy, and all was good. Then this: UnknownError…

/Message: Calling All Web 2.0 Apps: Clothe Stowe For 2006 Come on, Stowe: how much to rent the beret? 😉 (tags: web20 marketing) ‘He would do it again’ Tough story about a heroic grandfather who died trying to save his grandchildren. (tags: Naperville family) Trees May Be Root of Some Evil Great headline.

Wow. Watching the live video stream now from the courthouse, Governor Ryan is going to go to jail.

Hilarious quote from a not so funny situation: “It’s for fun and games,” spokeswoman Katie Kroft said.“This is why we have everybody sign a waiver.” Someone needs to go back to media training. When kids are injured, the words “fun” and “games” shouldn’t be in your lexicon.

At the kids barber shop, heard this: “She says she’s a Christian, but there’s no way. And besides, she’s asking me for a divorce, the least she can do is let me claim the kid on my tax return. I need that 500 bucks.” The “gentleman” was on his cell phone for the entire time…

The blog of the individual who killed a 10 year-old girl, is here. It would seem that these posts (1, 2, 3, and 4) suggest that he was lonely, didn’t have much luck with a couple of girls, and lost a couple friends when he was in high school and college. In other words, just…

NBC-iVillage Term Sheet: Six Serious Bidders; Hearst Issue Predominant | paidContent.org (tags: Hearst iVillage NBC media) Chicago Tribune | Bush: `Full support’ Maybe “full support” is just this month’s “heckuva job, Rummy”? (tags: Bush Rumsfeld Iraq) On the ballot: Pull troops out of Iraq? Getting active locally is good. But Iraq policy is as far…

That’s a little eerie… last night I wrote about familyware, and today Steve Rubel points out that Jot is offering one-click family sites. Doesn’t look like they solve the syncing issue I raised last night, but for a web-based offering, this looks pretty good.

I love – and I mean love – Google calendar’s interface. It’s just right. And Charlene Li’s observation that it’ll help her with planning a kid’s play date hits on an important, even critical, problem this solves: familyware. What do I mean? Robin uses Outlook on her home computer, which syncs with her Blackberry. I…

Quick update on my transition to WordPress… this has by far been the smoothest conversion between blog platforms. (By comparison, converting from Radio to Movable Type took a couple of weeks of effort.) Some additional tweaks I’ve added since last night: Now reading plugin. Lets me identify what book I’m currently reading, links to Amazon.com…