- @kristiewells Have looked for GS for years, and never once seen here. Wish they sold the cookies online. Girl Scouts is such a good org. #
- The FaceBook article on CBS’ 6o Minutes is beginning now. #
- #Facebook’s #Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes disappointed me. I thought he would have exuded confidence, or at least a charming geekiness. #
- I found him somewhat dull and boring. Good ideas, but not the best at communicating and / or selling them. #
- Was it just me, or did #Zuckerberg’s eyes in the interview seem lifeless? #
- or like a shark? #
- Reporting for jury duty. #
- At jury duty they told us how important our roles are in the justice system. #
- Does not seem just the state pays jurors only 40 dollars a day. #
- Prospective jurors with last names that begin from A to D, please step forward with your summonses. #
- They say they have wifi here. Started to liveblog until they told us to turn everything off. #
- At least all my Tweets are indexed and added to my blog daily. #
- I suppose that Twitter can be considered a liveblogging application? #
- Handed in my summons and lost my seat in the process. Expected that, though did not want to leave my things unattended in this huge room. #
- @robinyap True. Hope to get some reading and work done while waiting. I teach tonight, and hope this will not be too late. #
- They are finally calling people. Odd to actually NOT wanted to be selected. #
- Just called. Off to the first courtroom. #
- Waiting for the court officer. This liveblogging of jury duty makes this a really interactive and more democratic process. #
- Lower Manhattan is sure beautiful from thr 11th floor of the NY State Supreme Court building. #
- I am glad the courts allow us to use Internet and computers. I suppose that may change if we get into a courtroom. #
- Walked down the stairs to the courtroom where they told us to report. Elevators seemed too closed in. Perhaps I did not want to be confined? #
- Wow, this liveblogging jury duty will keep me busy today! More interesting than all the reading I brought with me. #
- I have to turn off all my electronics. That is the case. #
- Went into the courtroom and the last five of us did not fit. So, they sent us back. Great unknown strategy! #
- So, if there are too many jurors sent to a courtroom, those who are last and do not fit go back into the larger pool. #
- About to sit back down and power up the computer, when they told us another group will be selected for another case. Let’s not hear my name. #
- They literally do shuffle the juror cards up front to then select the names from the 200 or so of us who are here. #
- In a way, I wonder if the #juror cards are really unlike #Tarot cards? Different people want different things to show up. #
- Phew they did not call my name. #
- Somebody was not in the room when they called her, and then she came back in. Perhaps that is another strategy, since they sent another #
- And told her to take a seat? #
- Just dismissed for lunch. We actually have until 2:00, since there will not be any cases before the next jury call at 2:00. Hurray! #
- Will power down my computer and catch up on some reading during lunch. #
- Need some (a lot) of coffee. #
- Did not know where to get lunch while at jury duty. I know is by Chinatown, but do not know any good Chinese food around here. #
- Last two times I ate Chinese food in NY Chinatown, it did not agree with me. #
- Eating at McDonald’s instead. #
- Can anybody recommend good jury duty food in Manhattan for tomorrow? #
- @robinyap. Thank you for the help. With somuch waiting and liveblogging this morning, I need a skim venti quad latte. Has not helped yet. #
- This area around the courthouses in lower Manhattan has always puzzled me. Perhaps that is a good thing. #
- Back in the jury room waiting for jury roulette to begin anew. #
- Waiting to be called. Still waiting. #
- Dismissed from jury futy for today. Hurray. Still have to report back tomorrow morning. #
- @alexkingorg Good luck with them. #
- Going to class. I begin teaching my MBA class, Business Communication, this evening. #
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I learned two strategies for handling jury duty:
- Be among the last into a courtroom. If they run out of seats, you get dismissed and sent back to the larger pool.
- If when they call your name in the larger pool, if you are not present (perhaps in the restroom), they send somebody else and you remain in the pool.
Whatever the case, those of us still in this room were just dismissed for lunch.
BTW, I am making even more entries in this liveblogging experience with Twitter, where I can be found at
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I just uploaded my last liveblog post using ScribeFire, and will have to use it a bit more before I state that Windows Live Writer (WLW) is easier to use. I really liked Ecto, but without future Windows development and new features in WordPress that it does not support, why would I want to continue using that? Ecto is a really great program, but it needs a new version. BTW, I would gladly pay for it . . .
I just got a firewall notice that it just defended me against a cyber attack. That is ironic–criminal and malicious cyber attacks
while serving in my role as a prospective juror.
They are finally calling us . . .
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I have been experimenting liveblogging from my jury duty while using Windows Live Writer, and decided it is now time to expand my horizons with ScribeFire. I have not used this program in several months, if not longer, and it seems there are now some changes to it.
Of course, going to my blog while trying to figure out some of the cryptic and somewhat lacking features of ScribeFire, I notice my blog is not working with FireFox. Instead, it just loads some of my images from Flickr. I wonder what is wring with my new WordPress install, to cause such trouble? I know my blog is working fine with Internet Explorer, but that is something much too in-depth for me to try to troubleshoot while awaiting being called to sit on a case.
BTW, why does ScribeFire call WordPress categories Tags? Where are WP keywords? Why aren’t there easier instructions for using ScribeFire?
Not knowing what to expect, I will try to post this liveblog now, as they indicated they will soon call us for a case.
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While wifi worked well for a short time this morning, it seems to now be down. I will continue to liveblog using Windows Live Writer and upload as network access becomes available.
I am typing this in a small room they have off to the side with some cubicles and some laptops. Very glad I brought my own.
Now that I am thinking about this, I believe my liveblogging experience here during jury duty will help my upcoming liveblogging presentation at Northern Voice 2008. I was planning to just talk about liveblogging using Ecto (formerly my favorite liveblogging and offline blogging application), but Ecto has not been updated in some time and does not run very well with Windows Vista. Their website states it will be updated, but the only indication I have for this is the set of Mac-based screen shots. I will thus plan to learn a lot about Windows Live Writer as a liveblogging tool, and will probably explore FireFox’s ScribeFire more as well.
Wifi is available again, so let me post this . . .
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We handed in our jury selection paperwork and were explained as to our functions and the particulars about serving jury duty for the New York State Supreme Court. We were told how we will be expected to sit in on a number of trials until either we get selected for one or get dismissed tomorrow afternoon.
At least they allow computers and have freely available wifi. Nice to see my taxes at work. I just hope I get either dismissed or otherwise able to get to my new Business Communication class I am teaching on time tonight.
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I arrived to 111 Centre street for jury duty. After going through security and having my bag x-rayed, I arrived on the 11th floor and was greeted with a documentary film on justice. Ed Bradley narrated this film and spoke about trial by ordeal, the Code of Hammarabi, and justice during Medieval France and England.
The film is surprisingly good. There are video and movie clips, an engaging explanation of trial by ordeal (including a movie clip of being bound and thrown into the water to see if the person sinks and is therefore innocent). I learned about the important role of a jury, and how jurors are the only ones in the system who are entrusted with the ability and responsibility to determine truth and falsehood according to the laws and how people do and do not act in accordance with them.
This will be an interesting experience, and I will attempt to liveblog it as much as possible. I am using Windows Live Writer for this.
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As an advocate of evidence-based practice (EBP) in human resource development (HRD), adult education, and instructional design, I saw this Dilbert cartoon and laughed. This demonstrates some of the issues in and around EBP in the modern world.
Have you ever experienced something like this?
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