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Each of these online communication platforms is useful for different things.

Fastest and dirtiest is twitter. But my stream is mostly mundane trivia, cryptic comments, product promotion, and other assorted crap.

Facebook is probably best for most people. Fast, easy, friendly. … But realize that only friends, or friends of friends, will likely see what you post.

Personally I like blogs. If you can find the best ones in your areas of interest, they are the best source of information on the WWW.

For example, I follow these blogs religiously:

• Apple news – Daring Fireball
• Outdoor excitement – The Adventure Blog
• Internet & social media – Mashable

But writing and reading blogs like those and this one are time consuming. And you need to find the perfect blogs for your own interests.

The hippest blogging platform as we enter 2011 is tumblr, a micro blog. … more advanced than twitter or Facebook, but with far fewer features than normal blogs. … I often link to Amy’s tumblr blog – The All Around.

Forums are the ultimate. The only platform good for conversation. But being active in a forum is the most time consuming of all. And you sometimes need to wade through a lot of dreck to find the rare gem.

Lifehacker (a terrific blog) in June 2010 picked their 5 favourite platforms: Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, SquareSpace & Posterous.

 

Leave a comment if I missed listing an equally good option.

Are you a blogger?

If you use Facebook, I’d say you are. … A micro-blogger.

Update:

Kristal S. Boulden (@ksboulden) just started a new blog – Double Front – choosing WordPress.com. Her niche will be gymnastics vis-a-vis digital culture and social media. (blogs, Twitter, YouTube, etc.)

Thanks Full Twist for the introduction. I’ve subscribed.

At Top Flyte gymnastics.

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This is the first time I’ve seen a playground swing used IN the gym. Better, though, is a trapeze. Best swinging rings.

Wow.

She’s fantastic in a video on her Weekend Edition Yahoo News blog.

You have to click through to watch the video, though. Yahoo! is so lame, they don’t allow embeds. Yeesh.

The new PE class: Active gaming

Dominique Dawes could go far as a news reporter. But she’d better flee Yahoo! ASAP. That’s a sinking ship.

Stuck dismount.

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More routines from that meet on igorgymn1’s YouTube Channel

Vault
1. Nabieva 14.82
2. Chusovitina 14.3753
3. Pavlova 14.25

A Bars
1. Mustafina 15.52
2. Nabieva 14.753
3. Galiulina (UZB) 13.15

Beam
1. Pavlova 14.52
2. Maksiuta (ISR) 14.23
3. Galiulina (UZB) 13.004

Floor
1. Mustafina 14.72
2. Belokobylskyaya 14.43
3. Elizarova (UZB) 13.854

Full Twist has been following that meet.

Mustafina was a late entry.

http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js

Videos are starting to be posted.

Anastasia Sidorova won 3 of 4 apparatus in the Junior division. She fell on Bars. Rewriting Russian Gymnastics has those results, too.

Rotterdam highlights from USAG.

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(via Full Twist)

Another video success stories in major events over the past year – 2010 USA Gymnastics: An Amazing Year

Filmed by a pro, Claudiu Voicu, here’s another superb edit. Not many new tricks, but plenty of amusing and entertaining sequences.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (8min, slow start)

stormfreerun:

Tim “Livewire” Shieff
Paul “Blue” Joseph
Ashley “Spyder” Holland
Jan Barcikowski
Franck “Cali” Nelle

(via FlipCatch)
stormfreerun from the UK.

Starts creepy. Gets worse.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Name this bad film.

Skip this post if you don’t have your own blog.

Every year or so I experiment with offline blogging software, usually MarsEdit, as that seems to be the most popular on the Mac platform ($40). (The main competitor, Ecto, is only $20.)

There is a bit of a learning curve in using MarsEdit. But I think I’m willing to spend the time to learn it. Finally.

Advantages:

• it’s faster to work offline

• live preview while you edit

• you can set up a “template” to duplicate the look and feel of your actual blog

Problems:

• no option to open links in a new window

• the resulting HTML text is more complex, more difficult to go back and edit

Leave a comment if you’ve a better solution to write blog posts offline. This post was written with MarsEdit. See any problem with it?

Nathalie from Netherlands made a sweet tribute video for Ana Porgras.

Sometimes I feel like I’m alone
Sometimes I feel like I’m not that strong
Sometimes I feel so frail so small
Sometimes I feel vulnerable
Sometimes I feel a little fragile
A little fragile

lyrics

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Ana is neither fragile nor vulnerable.

But she is under-hyped. Far better than many average fans give her credit.

Bea linked to that edit in celebration of Ana’s birthday, December 18th.