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 [Ryanlee.org] Newswire: <p>Early this month, Mark Pilgrim made waves when he went shopping for a new Mac, but <a href='http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/05/30/bye-apple'>decided not to buy one</a>, and, in <a href='http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks'>When the bough breaks</a>, wrote at length about switching to Ubuntu. I&#x2019;ve been thinking about this a lot recently, and now John Gruber&#x2019;s written <a href='http://daringfireball.net/2006/06/and_oranges'>And Oranges</a>, a fine excursus on Mark&#x2019;s piece.

[Preoccupations.org] Preoccupations: Social Software: In fact, I think this has already started ”” for psychological reasons: I am not so pushy or impressed by myself as to want to flog you my blog by ceaselessly (and meaninglessly) linking to it, but when I read some of the disparaging comments flying around now about bloggers who ever dare to link to their own postings in comments then I feel great reluctance to go down that road at all. And yet, this (linking) is what we do all the time in conversation ("Yeah, I had just that conversation the other day with X ”” she said ”¦ and I said ”¦"), in academic life, in our work places ”¦ We're sociable and social animals and we need to retain the ability to function fully like this in comments on each other's sites.

[Evelynrodriguez.typepad.com] Crossroads Dispatches: Awareness: Colleen Wainwright of Communicatrix bares her soul (she doesn't know I've included her in this week's roundup) but I think she's onto something we all can benefit from: "I've been grappling with what to do about this pettiness, this intolerance, this shameful, shameful aberration in my otherwise sterling character and I've decided that the only thing to do is out myself. To paraphrase the excellent Louis D.

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