Info For Internet Explorer 6 Users

http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/ 

If you use Internet Explorer 6 for access to the Internet you should read the article available at the link above.

Message From Frank Bright

Frank Bright has provided the following info for posting:

You should soon receive a mailout about a 50^th class reunion. With help, I took the lead on this mailout since it may not be too early to begin gathering input from the class so that we can set a date a year or so in advance, book a place (I thought that the Holidome was ok in the past), get a deal on hotel rooms, and begin getting everyone “on the bandwagon”. If “everyone is coming”, maybe “everyone” will come. I talked Camilla Fulco  (who holds the purse strings) into spending the money for postage, so send us the response form as soon as you can and we will see what needs to be done and who will do it. Camilla is a very organized person and is always willing to help. Bill Scott, of course, is “communication central”. On the local front, Garland Weidner is monitoring the mail box, Carrol Hanson and Jerry Cook have volunteered to help, and C.K. Canfield is willing to help. I talked to all of the people who “signed” the letter (except for Alan Stone, but Charlie McBride gave me permission to use Alan’s name). My personal “projects” are to get Ronnie Suggs and Jay Blazin to a reunion, and to find Jimmy Hess. He must be in the Houston/Austin area. I hope that this finds you and your families healthy and doing well, although I know that is not going to be true in all cases. I am excited about the prospect of seeing so many of my classmates in 2011. All the best, Frank Bright.

Email Changes During June 2009

Susie Calhoun Hinton and Sue Roark Henderson both have new email addresses that are available in our Email Directory updated as of 6/30/2009. That info is available via the Class Directory page of the class web site.

Patricia Lang Backest

Classmate Patricia Lang Backest passed away in Leander, TX on Thursday, June 18, 2009, after a lengthy illness. Visitation will be held at Rose-Neath Funeral Home - Southside Chapel, 2500 Southside Drive, Shreveport, LA, on Sunday, June 21, 2009 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. A funeral service celebrating Pat's life will be held on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 10:00am at Rose-Neath Southside Chapel. Interment will follow at Centuries Memorial Park.

We do not have any address info for Pat in our alumni records. However, if I can find a home address for her I will provide that info to any classmate who lets me know they want it. You can sign the Guestbook for Pat and find more details in the obituary about the funeral services by clicking on the link below. Please keep her family in your prayers.

Published in the Shreveport Times on 6/21/2009.

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Trending Tweets (Updated 7-9-2009)

If you want to see real time information coming in via Twitter regarding the latest things folks are discussing, click on Twitter Search in the left column of the Blog. Then click on the trending topic of your choice. Or, you can type in a topic of your own in the Search box.

Doris Marie Tuminello Askins

Doris Marie Tuminello Askins, 72, passed away Friday, June 12, 2009 in Houston, Texas. Doris is the sister of classmate Mary Lynn Tuminello Johnson. Visitation will be Monday, June 15, 2009 from 6:00-9:00pm at Klein Funeral Home. A Vigil will be held at 7:00pm, Monday, June 15, 2009 at Klein Funeral Home. A Funeral Mass will be held 10:30am, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at Prince Of Peace Catholic Community, 19222 Tomball Parkway, Houston, Texas.

If you need a home address for Mary Lynn please drop me a note. Her email is available online in the class directory. You can use the link below to sign the Guest Book. Please keep Mary Lynn and her family in your prayers.

Published in the Houston Chronicle on 6/14/2009.

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Joycelain Bryant

The June 14, 2009 Times has the obituary for Joycelain Bryant, the step-mother of classmate Seldon A. Bryant. Mrs. Bryant was 91, and died Monday, June 8, 2009, at Willis Knighton Hospital after a lingering illness.

We don't have a home mailing address for Seldon but we do have his email address listed in the online email directory under his nickname "Butch." You may also use the Times Guestbook to express your condolences. Click on the link at the bottom of this article to go to the Guestbook.

Please keep Seldon and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Published in the Shreveport Times 6/14/2009.

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Trip To Gatlinburg, TN

I received a note today from Jimmy Stockard of the FP Class of 1953. They are planning a bus trip to Gatlinburg in September 2009 and have invited anyone from other FP classes to participate. There's too much info to post here but if you are interested I can email it to you. If interested, drop me a note.

New Malware Attack Infecting Web Sites

Sometimes you can't help but wonder if its worth the effort to try to have a web site. That's especially true when your read that Security firm Websense has issued an advisory warning about malicious code being added to web sites that redirects visitors to other web sites. The other web sites try to infect the diverted PC with malware. If the site can't find a browser weakness it can exploit it tries to trick the user into downloading a Trojan virus. As Charlie Brown would often say, "Good Grief."

Chances are folks who are at the most risk of having a browser weakness are those that use the older browsers rather than the newer versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome browsers. Most folks using our web site have Internet Explorer 6 or 7. If you wish to update those IE browser versions you can find a link directly to Microsoft in an ad associated with the April 2009 blog article titled "For Your Information." If you don't see an IE 8 ad by that article clicking on the title to the article should activate the ad. That's the "context related" advertising you sometimes hear about. Sorry, but I am not aware of any ads in the class blog with direct links to the other major browsers.

If you experience any unusual "events" while using the class web site close your web browser and run your Internet Security software. Then, please let me know what happened, and if your Security software found anything, and what the virus was named if that info was available.

Hopefully, we won't have any problems. But it wouldn't be wise to ignore the possibility. Above all, don't even consider downloading anything to your computer that some web site that you didn't even open on purpose "tells you" that you need to download.

If you have any questions please drop me a note.

Wedding of RD & Betty Molcany Barber's Son

I received a note from Betty Molcany Barber with the following message:

This is what the Barber family was doing in March on Friday the 13, 2009. We were in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel celebrating the wedding of our youngest son, Scott. Camilla Fulco Doughty and Johnnie Ross McKinney joined us for the happy time. Mom and Dad Barber hope that grandkids won't be too many years away now!

Betty also sent several photos taken at the event. They are posted in Album 02 on the Photos web page. They are numbered as 95-97.

May 31, 1961 - May 31, 2009

Do you remember what you were doing 48 years ago today? I do, now that it has been brought to my attention by another classmate. <smile>

On May 31, 1961, at 7:30pm we were to be on the Hudson Street side of the Hirsch Memorial Youth Center and form into two lines. At 8:00pm we were to march into the auditorium and remain standing until Mr. McKenzie sat down. Then we could be seated.

A total of 504 Fair Park 1961 classmates stood that night when our name was called and received our Fair Park diploma. We then moved the tassel from the right to the left side of our cap, and thus officially ended our “high school” days.

If anyone has any photos taken at our graduation send me a copy and I'll make a new photo album for the big event.

Suspicious Emails

Have you received any emails recently that invite you to click on a link to view photos sent to you by a classmate? I have, but the classmate had no knowledge that such an email had been sent to me. In fact, the classmate was also getting the same type emails from the same organization. I marked the emails I received as SPAM so my email program will now treat any additional emails from that email address as SPAM.

My initial concern with this SPAM email was that clicking on the link might activate the download of a virus to my computer. That is one way viruses are spread. Not wanting to take a chance with a virus I just deleted the email after marking it as SPAM.

I "Goggled" the company name shown in the email and they are known for sleazy practices. This company's behavior illustrates why it is a good idea to use the Bcc line of the email form to hide the email addresses of folks you email. A Spammer getting an email addresses is harder when the Bcc address line is used for the recipient's email address.

If you get any of these type emails do not respond to them. Use your email program to mark the emails as SPAM or JUNK and then delete them. And consider using the Bcc line of your email form, especially when you send emails to multiple recipients.

One other thing is also worth considering. If you receive a forwarded email that has lots of email addresses showing in it, just delete those addresses before you forward that email to others.

If you have any questions about this topic drop me a note.

Fran & Marlo's Mayo Clinic Performance

Fran & Marlo Cowan (married 62 years) playing piano together in the atrium of the Mayo Clinic. He turned 90 in February 2009. (Before running this video, turn off the web site background music by pressing the Esc key on your keyboard.)

Emily Jane Newberry

A memorial service to celebrate the life of Emily Jane Leslie May Newberry will be held on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 11:00 am at First Presbyterian Church in Shreveport. Visitation is Wednesday, May 13 from 5-7 pm at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 2500 Southside Dr. in Shreveport. Jane passed away on Friday, May 8, 2009 in Shreveport, where she has lived since 1949. Her parents, stepmother, her first husband, Mitchell V. May, second husband, James W. Newberry, and grandson, Benjamin Leslie Caldwell, predeceased Jane.

Mrs. Newberry was the step-mother of '61 classmate Johnny Newberry. You can access the obituary and Guest Book for Mrs. Newberry by clicking on the title to this article. Please remember the Newberry family in your prayers.

Looking For Mary Ann Cole

Henry Pharis from the FP Class of '62 sent a note asking for help in finding someone. Here is Henry's note:

I received a note from my cousin, Mike Johnson. He is trying to make contact with a girl that used to live next door to his grandparents, Edith & Jeff Duncan. She attended Fair Park in the '54-'58 time frame. I would appreciate you sending your feelers out. Her name was Mary Ann Cole and any information would be appreciated.

If anyone has anything that might help Henry let me know so we can get it to him.

Update - 5/21/2009

Thanks to Mary Palmer Strange for sending an obituary today showing that Mary Ann Cole is deceased. That info was forwarded to Henry for sharing with his cousin.

Researchers Hijack Botnet, Score 56,000 Passwords In An Hour

The dangers we face on the Internet are discussed in this article. Click on the Title line to read the article.

Update On Sammie Lowe Beasley

Helen Lindsay Rigg visited Sammie today in the hospital and provided the following info on Sammie's recovery from heart surgery.

Visited Sammie..still in ICU, but supposed to go to a room this evening....& she is okay. In good spirits & beginning to feel better after an infection.  I'm still saying prayers.

Thanks Helen. If you get more info please pass it along.

Navigating The Blog

In the blog article dated 4/27/09 I explained how to be sure the blog articles you read get counted by Google's blog tracking software. However, the process I described wasn't very easy to follow. The good news is I have found a much easier way to do it.

• When you find an article you want to read just click on the title of the article. That will ensure the article is counted. After you read the article click on the Return (or Back) arrow located at the top left corner of your internet browser. That is the same arrow you may already be using to return to web pages you previously visited. Clicking on that arrow while in the blog returns you to the same spot you were before you clicked on the article title. If you find another article you want to read just repeat the process.
  
  
• Some folks may be able to right click their mouse on the article they read and choose "Back" from the popup menu that appears. This is just another way to do the same thing as clicking on the arrow.

If this process doesn't work for you please let me know. Be sure and tell me which browser you are using.

New Cars ~ Old Cars

I saw an article in the newspaper on 5/1/09 saying:

The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro will makes its debut at noon Wednesday at Chevyland.

For a few minutes my thoughts drifted back to 1959 when the new Chevy's arrived at Chevyland. The '57 and '58 Chevy's were such dream cars I couldn't wait to see what the '59's looked like. I knew there wasn't a prayer of owning one any time soon, but dreaming was still free.

First chance I had I dropped by Chevyland and went inside. I stopped and just stared for a few minutes at what I saw. It was not a stare of awe, but of disbelief. I thought how could they have done what they've done to this car, especially those rear "wings" on the car. If you don't remember what the '59 Chevy looked like here is a YouTube video to remind you. If you care to watch there are additional videos regarding Chevys that you can watch by clicking on the video links at the bottom of this video. Some of the videos will really stir your memories. (Press the Esc key on your keyboard to stop any background music before you start the videos.)

Sammie Lowe Beasley

Helen Lindsay Rigg provided the following info.

Sammie Lowe Beasley is in the hospital. She is scheduled to have triple bypass surgery on Wednesday, 4/29/2009. Remember her in prayer.

Opal Long Weidner

Mrs. Opal Long Weidner, 88, of Alexandria peacefully passed away Sunday, April 26, 2009, in Rapides Regional Medical Center after a short illness. She was surrounded by many family members singing her favorite hymns. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at Pentecostals of Alexandria. Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Ball, LA.

Mrs. Weidner is the Mother of classmate Garland Weidner. Please keep Garland and his entire family in your prayers as they go through this time of sorrow. The online Guest Book for Mrs. Weidner is available by clicking on her name in the Title line of this posting. If you need home address info for Garland please let me know.

What Do You Read Most On The Blog?

The above page is part of a report of the various blog articles that classmates have clicked on the blog article title to open and read the selected article. During the first 4 months of 2009 a total of 70 articles were clicked and read, but only 14 of those articles are shown in the info above to illustrate the process. Please note that if you use your mouse, or keyboard, to scroll down the blog page and read the articles (without ever clicking on their titles) then Google's software does not capture that info and that info isn't part of the info shown above.

To the extent that the data shown in the summary above is accurate it provides insight into the different type info that folks prefer to read about the most. That info could be used to ensure that as many of those type articles as possible are included in the blog. To help us move in that direction I'd like to request that you click on the blog article titles to read those articles that interest you. The links at the bottom of each article will help you move back to the list of blog articles so you can make additional choices. Info provided by Google from this process could become a real help to us in making our blog as interesting as possible.

One thing we don't want to do is get in a rut and stay there. If anyone has info that you think might be interesting to others, use the Email News To Blog link near the top left of the blog page to send that info to me. Your info could motivate someone else to do the same thing.

If you have questions, don't hesitate to drop me a note.

Hello To All From Joanie Stockard

I have been retired since 2002 from being a Regional Customer Service Manager in Dallas and here in Lake Charles for a BellSouth communications company. I absolutely LOVE being so lucky to have my time to enjoy each of these days since retirement. When home, I love working in the yard, even if it’s hard "on the ole body" when pulling weeds. Larry has put several bird feeders in the yard for us to enjoy and we have a multitude of varieties that visit us daily - love it!

I am so blessed every day, and Larry and I just enjoy each other, our families and friends that we are so blessed to have, and, of course, our "running the roads" every chance we get, whether in one of the jeeps or on the Harley. We definitely ride the back roads and the jeep trails.

Larry has been at PPG Industries here in Lake Charles for almost 30 years where he is a Master Electrician. His real love there is being a First Responder. He is also a Fire Captain and Instructor on the Emergency Fire and Rescue Squad at the plant.

We can hardly wait for his retirement in the next couple of years, but in the meantime, we are fortunate to have a lot of days free due to him being on "Shift." It gives him some 22 weeks every year of off days (including regular 4 weeks of vacation days) so we get to "play" a lot. But, most of all, he is a Marine! Oooohrah! He served two tours in Viet Nam and is 1st Marine - 1st Division. I absolutely adore him - he is my "best" everything! Ironically, Johnny's cousin, Camelia Anne Kircus (class of '60) and her husband, Ray, got Larry and I together. That was over ten years ago, and I am still "grinning" from ear to ear.

My daughter (although she claims Larry before me – Hee hee - they are close!) Tracee is a Nurse Practitioner. She is Johnny Kircus' daughter and laughs and says, "Larry is my Daddy grown up." She is a doll with four daughters from 9 to 13, and one son, 21, Chris, who you read about (see February 01, 2009 blog article). We are excited to learn that Chris will be stationed at Ft. Polk for awhile where he will be serving as an instructor for "Airborne" trainees. Hopefully, he will not serve another tour in Iraq.

That about sums it up. While living in Louisiana Cajun country we enjoy the fantastic foods and riding the coastal roads seeing all the birds, ducks, and geese along the way, not to mention counting alligators as we go. Hopefully, after Larry's retirement in a couple of years, we will move out to Texas Hill Country. We love it out there!

God Bless and Love!

Cleolice A. Foster

Funeral services celebrating the life of Cleolice A. Foster, 92, will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday April 25, 2009 at Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel. Cleolice was born January 26, 1917 in Cass County, TX to Russell and Willie Amox. She passed away after a brief illness on April 22, 2009 in Shreveport. She is survived by son, Jan Russell Foster; daughter, Willie Pat Binderim; six grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.

We have home address info for classmate Willie Pat Binderim, but no current email address. If you wish to leave a message in the Guest Book just click on Mrs. Foster's name in the Title bar to this posting. Please keep Willie Pat and her family in your prayers.

Rosie Aline Ricketts Davis

This obituary appears to be for the Mother of deceased '61 classmate James Ricketts. If anyone knows for sure that this is James' Mother please drop me a note and let me know. If that happens, I'll add a note to this posting confirming the information.

Rosie Aline Ricketts Davis, 81, was born on June 26, 1927 and passed away Saturday, April 18, 2009, in Shreveport, LA after a lengthy illness. Visitation will be held on Monday, April 20, 2009 from 3 PM until 5:30 PM at Rose-Neath Southside Funeral Home. Services to follow.

C. F. (Charlie) Biggs

Services for the Celebration of Life of Charlie Biggs, 96, will be held at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, April 18, 2009, at Tatum Chapel of Broadmoor Baptist Church. Officiating will be Dr. Tom Harrison. Interment will follow in Forest Park Cemetery, St. Vincent Avenue. Mr. Biggs is the Father of Molly Biggs Templin, wife of classmate H.R. Templin.

You can access the obituary and Guest Book for Mr. Biggs by clicking on his name in the title line of this article. Please keep Molly and H.R., and other family members in your prayers.

For Your Information

I recently read that Microsoft will soon start asking users of Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft says IE6 is very old technology and may not work well for modern web sites. They also noted IE6 has security weaknesses that are corrected in IE8.

The table below shows browsers used by folks visiting our class web site. About 17 percent of the visits between January 1 and April 13 of this year used IE6. If you use IE6 or IE7 and want to upgrade your browser, you can use IE 8, Firefox, or the Google Chrome browser and be reasonably confident that any of those browsers will do a good job for you on our web site.

	Browser	Visitors	% of Total Visitors
1	Internet Explorer 7.x	1,511	60.76%
2	Internet Explorer 6.x	413	16.61%
3	Google Chrome	203	8.16%
4	Unnamed Others	104	4.18%
5	Firefox	100	4.02%
6	Internet Explorer 8.x	27	1.09%
7	26 Other Special Purpose Browsers	129	5.19%
	Total	2,487	100.00%

Camilla Fulco Doughty

On 4/6/2009 I forwarded a note to everyone on our email list regarding Camilla Fulco Doughty's recent receipt of unspent monies from a previous combined reunion of Fair Park's Classes of the 60's. Camilla would like to get input from '61 classmates on how these funds should be handled.

If you are a member of FP's Class of 1961, email Camilla on this matter by clicking HERE.

Conficker Worm Virus

A recent "60 Minutes" program did a story on the Conficker Worm virus. Some have said the actual danger of the virus was not properly presented by the program. I don't know about that, but I do know I want to avoid the virus if I can. And the program certainly promoted that concept, at least for me.

Clicking on the title to this post will take you to a transcript of the program. If you wish to do so you can click on a video link in the article and watch the actual report presented on "60 Minutes." Its the first video link in the article. If you want to run the video, press the Esc key on your keyboard to stop the website music from playing. Then click on the video link to start it running.

Ronnie Middleton

I received updated home address and telephone number info for Ronnie and Josie Middleton a couple of days ago. In his update Ronnie make the following comments:

I did retire just as I planned last March and will have one year at my beautiful home here in the Philippines on April 5, 2009. Boy, is it wonderful. My diabetes put me in the hospital for a week back in Dec. 2008 but I'm much better now. I get good medical care from the American VA clinic in Manila (the only one outside of the U.S). With my VA pension and my SS we get along fine.

I told Ronnie that if he would fill in a little more of the details on retired life in the Philippines I'd pass it along to everyone. Here is the additional info Ronnie sent.

I've always heard the hardest part of retirement is deciding what time to get up in the morning. Well, with my diabetes and it's accompanying medication schedule, I am up every morning to take my pills and morning insulin shot at 6 AM.

What is it like here in Paradise? It's fantastic. Over the years we built a beautiful 3 bedroom house of about 1800 sq. ft. It's all marble because marble is cheaper over here than vinyl tile. We have a maid's quarters (studio) in the back and our maid is about $60 a month. Really a tough situation.

The temperature usually tops out at 80 - 85 daily. I live one block off the beach and next door to a beautiful 5 star resort. And of course being a neighbor we can use their water park, bowling alley, and all water sport facilities at almost nothing. About 50 - 60% discount. By the way, they never close. My grand kids love the place.

We keep busy with the grand kids and have a card playing group (over 65) two days a week. We play at a very nice restaurant owned by one of the members.

Well, enough for now. God bless and keep all our 1961 class.

If you wish to email Ronnie his email address has not changed. If you don't have it already its in the Class Email Directory available online. Should anyone want to write Ronnie at his physical address or phone him let me know and I'll send that info to you.

Fair Park 50's Luncheon

Jimmy Stockard provided access to some photos of the recent Fair Park 50's luncheon held in Shreveport. Right below the luncheon photos are some photos of a recent trip the Class of '53 made to Branson, MO. Click on the title to this article to see the photos.

Ruth Elizabeth Loper

Memorial services for Ruth Elizabeth Loper, the wife of classmate David Loper, will be held at 11:00 am Saturday March 28, 2009, at Benton United Methodist Church.

We have David's home address info in our alumni records. If anyone wishes to contact him that way send me a note requesting that info. Mrs. Loper's obituary and Guest Book are available by clicking on the title to this posting.

Please keep David and his family in your prayers as they go through this time of sorrow.

Submission Of Alumni Address Information

Use the Update Address link on the Class Directory web page if you want to provide new or updated address info. No username or password is needed to use this process. However, those safeguards do remain in place for the Class Email Directory.

Mary Rainey Hinton

Mary apparently tried to provide her alumni info via the automated address form that we have online. However, something went awry because all I see on the form is her name. No home address, email address, or other info is showing. If anyone is in contact with Mary please give her my email address and tell her to contact me directly. Or she can click on the "Email News To Blog" link of our Blog and that will come to me. Since we have no contact info for Mary, I am hopeful that she can get in touch soon.

Follow-Up on 3/16/09:

Hats off to Mickey Phillips who used a telephone search web site to find a phone number for Mary in a faraway place called Shreveport, LA. Imagine that! Mickey called and sure enough it was the right person. However, Mary was as surprised to hear that her name had been entered into the address update form as she was to hear from Mickey. Probably the biggest reason for her surprise was because she doesn't have a computer. However, her daughter does have a computer and may have been the person who entered Mary's name on the form.

Mickey said that Mary was excited to hear from another 1961 classmate and asked to be put on the alumni mailing list. That has been done. Mickey also provided Mary with the link to our class web site and suggested she get her daughter to show her the class web site.

Well that's one more we can remove from the missing list. Thanks Mickey. Only 159 more to go!

Mary Elaine Graves Doughty

Today's Shreveport Times has the obituary for Mrs. Doughty. She is the sister of classmate Joyce Graves Gadd. Please keep Joyce and other family members in your prayers. Home address information is available for Joyce if you need it, and the Guest Book for Mrs. Doughty will be online until 4/11/09. You can access the obituary and Guest Book by clicking on the Title line for this article.

Paul Richard Herren

Thanks to Helen Lindsay Rigg for calling my attention to the obituary for Mr. Herren. He passed away on 3/7/09, and is the Father of classmate Pat Herren. You can access Mr. Herren's obituary by clicking on his name in the title bar of this posting.

We don't have current contact info for Pat. However, if you wish you can leave a message of condolences for Pat and other family members in the online Guest Book that is available when you access Mr. Herren's obituary.

Please keep Pat and her family in your prayers as they go through this time of sorrow.

Susie Ann Byrd Gordy

The Shreveport Times dated 3/08/2009 has the obituary for the Mother of classmate Maxine Gordy Barton. You can click on Mrs. Gordy's name in the title to this posting to go directly to her obituary. If you wish to leave Maxine and her family members a note of condolences, the online Guest Book is available, and along with the obituary will be available online until 4/07/2009. If you need home address info for Maxine please let me know. Please remember Maxine and her family during this difficult time.

Twitter Links - revised 3/11/09

There is a new section in the left margin of the Blog for Twitter postings. Click on any name to see what info is in the Twitter postings.

Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that individuals can use to post their comments, but the comments can't exceed 140 characters. Postings usually deal with what someone is doing, or a short comment on some topic. Newspapers, TV stations, and businesses are also using Twitter to post headlines and links to more indepth stories.

Twitter also has real time search capabilities. For example, Twitter user's phone updates provided the earliest news about the plane that went down in the Hudson. Lots of users followed that news event via Twitter search. Since real time search capability hasn't existed before many new and innovative ways of using it are being explored.

While Twitter can be used a lot of different ways, I think of it as a personal bulletin board for passing along info or links to others in your circle of friends. One thing its not, a place for putting private or sensitive personal info, unless you are a movie star, or politician (grin).