Last Wednesday I was approached by a friend and fellow WSAC member about how to set up a new Web site for the project that she is working on. Since neither of us had any idea how long it would take for Technology Services to set up a folder on the school’s server, and the site needed to be up and running within a week, I just bought a domain name and set the site up on an independent server.

You may remember Shawn Dixon as a former YP4 program associate and author of the YP4 Blog column "Café con Leche."

Well, these days he's famous on the Internet. Yesterday Wired magazine profiled Shawn's successful efforts to get John Edwards to come to his tiny hometown, drawing attention to issues that face rural Americans.

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    I just returned (ok, it was Thursday and I finally posted this on the blog now) from Demos, where they held an excellent discussion of social networking and social change. I would have blogged live but I much prefer to check my spelling and grammar on Microsoft Word and balancing a laptop actually on my lap, is well, awkward. So instead, I am semi-live blogging; coming to you slightly after the fact - but with hopefully limited grammatical errors and chock full o' analysis. Call it a compromise. Besides, I didn't have the network key to log on to the Demos network.

    So grab yourself a latté and cancel all prior appointments, because we have a lot to discuss. Read on, after the break.