• Our "I’m on Facebook — Now What???" book has a Facebook page! Become a fan for updates: http://tinyurl.com/2cqs9g #
• @ericlitman thanks for the add! #
• @ericlitman I’ve got a tool that when launched will create a database of those follow spammers #
• @dacort, or, you could try: sudo perl -MCPANPLUS -e ‘install Date::Calc’ #
• My disagreement with @jasonalba and why I think Facebook Mail is good!: http://snurl.com/1wc4v #
• @libel_vox thank you! I feel very honored! I just hope I can live up to your expectations #
• @libel_vox is there an rss feed for codeaway.org? #
• @libel_vox - nm, I found it. It’s just not in the site header so wasn’t apearing in my url bar for Firefox. #
• Look - I made #5! (thanks @libel_vox): http://voxpopdesign.com/wordpress/?p=104 #
• @jrockway - this is your opportunity!: http://tinyurl.com/ytkjea (this is \me, btw) #
• Anyone want to add me as a friend on Google Reader? Either shoot me an e-mail or request to chat: jessestay@gmail.com #
• cool - @guykawasaki bottom-posts his e-mails. His geek factor just went up for me (thanks @guykawasaki) #
• welcome @trippfenderson, a former co-worker from Media General in Richmond, VA. @newmediajim, @ericlitman, @biznickman be sure to follow! #
• did you know you can get blacklisted by Twitter by trying to follow too many people in a short time period? #
• Not just that, but the Twitter API acts as though their not blacklisted - you try to follow them through the API, and it returns friend info #
• Apologies, but I’m not going to put anybody doing SEO work on our API
  whitelist. Nothing personal, but SEO translates to "spam" in my book. #
• That was from a Twitter developer to me when I was trying to get on their API whitelist to do some testing with my application #
• SEO isn’t even my specialty! (but is for my company) #
• @dacort that’s what I’m going to have to do - hack around the problem to get it to work. I’m trying to provide a free tool and Twitter’ … #
• @dacort are you on the twitter-development-talk google group? #
• @dacort be sure to check out my latest discussion #
• Kudos back to the Twitter developer - he admitted he assumed wrongly and apologized. #
• mmm..just made myself a meatball sandwich. That was good! Trying to decide if I should make another. #
• Just found the perfect use for the Facebook Friends Grouping feature: http://snurl.com/1weh6 #
• @codybob also see http://www.came2pass.com - that one I wrote. Has a few bugs ATM that I’ll fix soon though. #
• @codybob the difference between sustaind and came2pass.com is that I contributed several modules to Pligg, and am still giving back to them #
• sweet! Now recruiters are coming to me to try and work for me, rather than trying to hire me. I love being an entrepreneur! #
• 22 fans for "I’m on Facebook — Now What???" - become a fan here: http://snurl.com/1wej5 #
• @ashbuckles you should try the iLike plugin for iTunes #
• @QueenofSpain as soon as I work out the bugs with Twitter’s dev staff, I’ve got a solution for you #
• Just received the Forward from our superstar Forward author (see our Facebook Page for a hint)! I’m stoked! #

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Rails has finally done it! They have finally admitted what we as Perl programmers have said since people went all Ga-Ga over it around the launch of BaseCamp. In an unprecedented blog post, Zed Shaw, creator of Mongrel, totally turned his back on the Rails community, saying what I’ve heard in outside circles all along (from Zed himself):

“This is exactly what makes Rails a ghetto. A bunch of half-trained former PHP morons who never bother to sit down and really learn the computer science they were too good to study in college. “

Perl is at a prime spot to step in here - this year, John Rockway published the first book on Catalyst, Perl’s answer to Ruby on Rails, in a much more Robust, more scalable package. Catalyst is stronger than ever. You see, I know some of the writers of Catalyst, and I know for a fact there is an entirely different mentality than that of Rails - Catalyst was built by Computer Scientists, and therefore was built by people who understand how an MVC architecture should be built!

My message to the Perl community is this - step in, do something! Promote the heck out of Catalyst now. Blog about it! Pull Zed aside, show him how it can help him, get him to blog about it. Ruby on Rails is weak right now, it’s breaking apart from the inside. Now is the time for the Perl community to show its strength and unite in an effort to make Perl once again the most used platform on the web! We need some big names in the Perl community to be stepping in here and taking advantage of the attention Zed’s bringing to Rails.

My Co-Author, Jason Alba, is having a bad day today. I’m sure I haven’t helped, as we both have had somewhat heated discussions over the design of the cover of our book among other things (we think we’ve got a good idea for it though!). Not just that, but now I’m going to disagree on the points he made in his blog today.

While I’m of course very much for social networks (please, invite me to more!), while I’ve also probably sent Jason several large attachments as we’ve discussed our book back and forth (did I mention we now have a Facebook Page - become a fan!), while I’m sometimes a jerk, and I’m definitely a genius :-P, I understand his points in those items. What I don’t agree about however is that Facebook mail can cause people to pay less attention to you.

You see, I’ve actually used Facebook mail to my advantage several times. There are several of my Facebook friends, and even non-friends (remember, I only add people that a) are truly interested in me, or b) I have personally interacted with - this ensures my network stays strong) who I know receive thousands of e-mails per day. I also know people are generally hesitant to use Facebook mail due to its current limitations.

Because of this, using Facebook mail actually had the reverse effect one would think it would. My mail got attention from those users - some times they asked me to e-mail them personally after my initial contact, but now they knew who I was and had established a personal communication with me. Not just that but they had my picture and profile information to find out more of who I was. I now stood out in their mind, and to me, that’s valuable.

While Jason may not want to be contacted via Facebook, I suggest you try it some time to another person you need to get in touch with. I guarantee, while they may not contact you right away, they will be more likely to read and pay attention to your Facebook mail than they would a regular e-mail from you. After your first contact - sure, go ahead and send them normal e-mail!

Now, as to the issue on Cc: vs. To: that Jason mentions, Gmail takes care of that for me! Everyone is a To: in Gmail’s terms, so that’s all I have to see. Now, if Facebook could just have a Cc: and forwarding/reply system.