This has been a turbulent year by most accounts, so I spent Thanksgiving remembering those who stuck by me through thick and thin:

Brian Breslin has been a constant friend as well as a partner in organizing RefreshMiami, BarCampMiami and building StartPR. When I struck out on my own earlier this year, Brian lent me office space: thank you. Whether it’s to bounce around an idea, startup something new, evangelize the South Florida new media community, or just chew the fat, he has been a welcome and much appreciated source of support. Yvette Ferry is another friend who also always present with good advice and great cheer through the best and the worst of this year, and I could not have made it without her either.

BarCampMiami was held in February 2008 just prior to FOWA, the Future of Web Apps Conference. About 16 sponsors and partners chipped in to make our BarCamp possible, where 300 people attended. People who had travelled from across the US, Latin America, and even Europe for FOWA, took time out to attend BarCamp. We could not have held the event without the help of Mel Kirk, who was with FOWA at the time, and from Nick Dominguez, Michael Montgomery, Yvette Ferry, Brian Breslin, Chris Saylor, and our local community (RefreshMiami) who helped spread the word about both BarCampMiami and FOWA.

We hope to three-peat BarCamp next February, now with a WordCamp organized by Alex Harris. A number of people are heping this year, including the already mentioned and Agustina Prigoshin, Christine Adolf, Ulisses Orozco, Michael Castilla, George Drage, and Christian “Fanless” Calzadillas.

The RefreshMiami community is a regular source of inspiration, motivation, and friendship for me, and I appreciate all that this passionate community of technologists and new media practitioners does throughout the year. They have enriched my life in ways untold. Thank you also to our great sponsors, including Ali and Eduardo at Brikolodge coworking, and the Yahoo! Latin America team.

Paul Kruger: thanks for your support and your advice.

Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells championed the Social Media Club and it is an honor to work with them at the national level as well as in organizing the new chapter of Social Media Club South Florida with Yvette Ferry, Christine Adolf, Agustina Prigoshin, Ulisses Orozco.

The Knight Center for International Media and the University of Miami School of Communication (UM SoC), where I teach social media and work on new media projects: in particular, I appreciate the help, encouragement, and friendship of Kim Grinfeder, Lelen Roberts (retired), Sanjeev Chatterjee, Christiane Delboni, Lauren Janetos, and Trevor Green. In addition to their support, they also push my limits and I’ve learned alot from them.

UM SoC students involved in the Knight Center, including Greg Linch, Walyce Almeida, Andrea Balloch, Matthew Byrnes, and Shell Jun Zhu. Among other things, they recently successfully petitioned to have a class on social media taught at the university, based on my syllabus. I am deeply honored by their collective action on my behalf and I look forward to great things from them. They are absolutely brilliant!

Mark Krupinski of Rasmussen College and Doterati in Orlando. He’s organizing a quickly growing and very active web/tech community in Central Florida and it’s been a real pleasure to work on some joint projects with him this year.

Mobile Monday Miami is a budding community of mobile phone professionals in South Florida, and my gratitude goes to Michael Tangemann and Jeffrey Sass as we get this started. We appreciate Nokia’s support with their sponsorship and hosting.

Alfredo Sanchez of QoS Labs, Victoria Edwards of The Collins Center for Public Policy, and Melissa Raulston of Florida State University, who included me on discussions about statewide digital divide issues with the objective of setting up a Florida 2.0 social network. It’s an ambitious task and a work in progress, but the interaction has opened new possibilities for all of us. I also appreciate Alfredo’s collegiality and the new doors he has opened for me.

Pat M., Laura V., Susan K., and Bill R.: thank you for looping me into your projects whenever you get the chance.

Shel Israel, Tara Hunt, Leah Jones, Fred Pullen: thank you. You know why.

It’s been amazing to work with such talented and motivated people throughout the year on such diverse projects. More than just colleagues, they have motivated me to see things in new ways and to learn new skills.

A huge word of thanks goes to the those who interact with me on Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook. Individually and collectively, they have propelled me forward and have propped me up. I can only hope that I am adding to my connections’ lives as much as they are adding to mine.

I am also thankful for my family and friends that I have not named here; I would have been toast without them! They know it, and they know who they are

Note: I apologize for any omissions, they are not intentional.

Quote attribution from the post title: “La reconnaissance est la mémoire du cœur.” -Jean-Baptiste Massieu, French ecclesiastic (1742 – 1818).

We held our second MobileMonday Miami event last week!

Thanks to those who participated and thanks to Myk Willis, CEO and Founder of Myxer, who gave an awesome presentation of this fast-growing  mobile startup. Mobile Monday Miami co-organizer and co-founder Jeffrey Sass (pictured) graciously hosted the event at Myxer’s offices in Deerfield Beach.

MobileMonday is a global community fostering cooperation and business development through networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends in the mobile industry. We’re excited to create a mobile community in Miami and look forward to its continued growth. If you’re into mobile, you’re invited to attend and participate in our free events.

The next one will be on June 9th, 2008 at Nokia’s offices by the Miami Airport. If you’re interested in attending, please RSVP on the Facebook event page, or just get in touch with me.

• 09:30 @ikepigott More than just lazy, it’s also sleazy, slanted and sensationalist journalism. Whatever sells, right? tinyurl.com/6xjyvn #
• 09:34 Coldplay’s song is not entirely free, they’re collecting your email. I wonder what they’ll do with it. www.coldplay.com/song.html #
• 09:45 Retweeting @jamesbuck Free mohammed, send an eCard to the consul attiyashakran@hotmail.com tinyurl.com/6m4dcn #
• 12:36 Wine wholesaler fell thru! Need new sponsor for RefreshMiami 2yr partytomorrow: ~$150 for wine, 50people attending tinyurl.com/6ocf6h #
• 13:00 @lsal77 Thanks for the Flipshake sponsorship of RefreshMiami! w00t! flipshake.com/ #
• 13:27 @quiverandquill @gregoire mapovino.com/ @montgomery @onajide Thanks for your offers and tips, it’s very much appreciated. #
• 13:30 @quiverandquill Kudos for “Rubber Chicken Social Club” in Boston! tinyurl.com/5t7kpq Informal meetups are generally the best kind. #
• 13:50 Without a moment’s hesitation and nary a doubt, he swiftly declared RSS bankruptcy and breathed a sigh of relief. #
• 13:56 @rrodgers On the contrary, it means I clicked the “Mark all as read” button. A refreshingly blank slate (screen, rather) stared back. #
• 14:01 @rrodgers Blog posts unread may rest in peace. They’re gone for good … unless someone links to them from Twitter, that is #
• 15:35 I love Twistori twistori.com/ #
• 16:35 @jpostman Visually stunning style, congrats. But I don’t agree w/ communist/socialist theme to describe social media is.gd/aaI #
• 17:05 Pre-ordered @missrogue ’s “Whuffie Factor” tinyurl.com/6bt2n9 & ordered @cshirky ’s “Here Comes Everybody” tinyurl.com/5w3r49 #
• 17:26 @jpostman It certainly makes a bold statement and will get some attention Good luck with your new consultancy, you’ll do well. #
• 17:29 @thorpus @yourdon I look forward to reading Clay’s book. I’m halfway through Groundswell – the Technographics chapter is very good #
• 17:33 Mobile Monday Miami at Myxer’s office on May 12th. The following one’s at Nokia’s on June 9th. Thanks @sass and @michaeltangeman . Rock on. #
• 17:36 @PelleB Agreed. I understand it’s meant tongue-in-cheek: twitter.com/jpostman/statuses/799845488 Take it up with @jpostman #
• 21:27 It’s really too bad you can’t customize the style of Google Reader shared items page, they all look the same tinyurl.com/4gov23 #
• 21:36 @kingsley2 I’ve got Tumblr, just added you tapio.tumblr.com/ #
• 23:36 @ashleyb33 Good point! You can comment shared items on Bloglines, but not on Google Reader. Seems like an obvious feature to have, right? #

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• 08:34 May 10 is Pangea Day – Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Rio will be linked to produce powerful films: tinyurl.com/6bhp9c #
• 09:28 @shashib thanks for this picture of me, I’ll start using it as my new avatar flickr.com/photos/adc/2448343265/ #
• 09:33 Finally updated my ClaimID page, looking more like it should now: claimid.com/alexdc #
• 13:07 Listening to “Social networking and social marketing in the digital age” on NPR live.friendsofwlrn.org/ #
• 13:38 So the next Mobile Monday Miami is May 12th, hosted by @sass / Myxer. Please tell your non-Twitter mobile friends tinyurl.com/4zx7or #
• 14:10 It’s misguided put the word communityin quotes and in the same sentence w/ “consumer marketing arena” tinyurl.com/3qn4xo #borg #
• 14:12 <rant>Your “consumers” in their “communities” certainly don’t think of such spaces as”consumer marketing arenas”; neither should y … #
• 14:21 @bendtheweb I’d follow you here after hearing you on NPR but you’re not engaging in conversations, just sending out links to your own site. #
• 15:02 @lindasherman I haven’t given PD much thought … maybe I can do something for it with @1h2o www.flickr.com/groups/onewater/ #
• 15:34 This is verbatim: “Now, for the most *IMPORTANT* part of the community: buying that outfit” tinyurl.com/6hnlzr #
• 15:37 @cgranier @montgomery In same vein as revolutiontheme.com/ there’s also premiumnewstheme.com/ and quommunication.com/ #
• 15:44 @robertmurray LOL! You’re right – don’t ask @JamesatBabySpot I wonder whether Wet Seal did some market research before building this #
• 16:29 @aureliusmaximus @JamesatBabySpot Good post, we’re addressing a part of that with StartPR.com tinyurl.com/3f5rka #
• 16:30 @FreeRangeMom Precisely why I don’t spend much time at the mall #
• 16:54 @briansolis Congrats for this tinyurl.com/6xftuw #
• 18:21 Puzzled to see that over half of the ASUS eee PC’s home page is links to other sites? What’s the point? eeepc.asus.com/us/index.htm #
• 19:17 Looking forward to Refresh Miami two-year anniversary on Wednesday tinyurl.com/6ocf6h #
• 20:08 “I suspect that there’s a whole lot of clicking without a lot of thinking,” -Mary Madden, Pew Research Re: FB apps tinyurl.com/3lktqd #
• 21:43 Counting down about nine and a half hours to download “Violet Hill,” the new free Coldplay song www.coldplay.com/song.html #
• 21:45 The Coldplay site is all about a free song, show and site … and a nice bit of artwork, “Viva la Vida!” www.coldplay.com/index.html #
• 22:04 @loiclemeur Glad you and yours are fine #

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• 10:51 “What’s the rush?”, on Flickr tinyurl.com/5nvouv (much better viewed here on black: tinyurl.com/62p3cx ) #
• 13:10 @andrewhyde That “thrifty fifty” for the Canon’s a good lens! Also nice for low light and portrait photos, and more affordable than the f1.4 #
• 13:33 Dugg “28 best Deviant Art Wordpress designers” by @wpzoomcom … nice collection of WP themes there #
• 13:33 oops forgot WP themes link tinyurl.com/5eakbk #
• 15:27 Mobile Monday Miami set for May 12th at Myxer, thanks to @sass Please RSVP tinyurl.com/4zx7or Thanks also @michaeltangeman for helpng #

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• 08:03 @greghaase Thanks for sharing this list of Mail/Addressbook/ical plugins: www.hawkwings.net/plugins.htm #
• 09:20 “Mowser is at the end of its life in its current form.” – @RussB tinyurl.com/573kp4 #
• 09:33 “GroupTweet is confusing and if you make a mistake, your direct messages are made public.” – @techcrunch tinyurl.com/5vu8eo #
• 15:14 @DougH Drinking tea is the only reasonable option at this point! Enjoy your vacay #
• 15:37 @ken_neth Welcome to Twitter. Check out the Miami Twitter Pack: tinyurl.com/2f8s7n #
• 16:38 Next Mobile Monday Miami on May 12th at Myxer, thanks to @sass for hosting. Know someone in mobile? Plz tell them! mobilemonday.net/ #
• 18:35 RefreshMiami two year anniversary is next Wednesday, April 30th … everyone’s welcome! tinyurl.com/6ocf6h #
• 19:35 Miami’s on Forbe’s sinful city map for Avarice, Sloth and Pride (not surprising) but not for Lust! Huh??? tinyurl.com/3286by #
• 19:40 We’re getting close with StartPR! Very soon we’ll invite those who signed up at startpr.com #
• 19:54 Uploaded first set of pictures to @1h2o on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/1h2o/ #
• 20:02 If you’re on Flickr, please consider adding 1h2o (thank you) www.flickr.com/people/1h2o/ and on twitter @1h2o #
• 20:29 @shamir Thanks for your help with Flickr, it’s much appreciated! You rock! flickr.com/people/shr/ #

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• 23:11 Hardly ever do you see such a close team, but great value ensues from their inherent trust in each other and their complementary skills. #
• 23:39 @thinkjose thank you, was great to meet you! twitter.com/thinkjose/statuses/765586805 #
• 23:44 @sass Why on Earth would anyone quit Twitter, even after an intensive course at “Invitations”, the socal networking rehab center? Well? Huh? #
• 23:46 @gapingvoid and Jason, you rock, thank you #
• 23:51 Internet fame’s relative to your audience. My social media is not yours. Information is social. And there is no A-list. Get a life, will ya? #
• 23:55 What to say of the opportunity to meet and reconnect with wondrous people at FOWA and BarCampMiami? Simply, thank you. Kindly. #
• 23:59 @jasonlbaptiste Love can be a relative term. Commitment, trust, loyalty, persistence, fraternity (sorority) are essential characteristics. #
• 00:10 Crazy day, kuh-razy evening, mellow cool jazz night. Shaking it all up. #
• 00:29 Micky Dee’s 24Hr drive-through. It’s 12:27am. How to resist? Easy. Just drive by. Not through. #
• 00:45 @vicequeenmaria W/ due respect, it’s not about you. And me neither. But it’s all good. #
• 00:54 Conversations tonigjht have proposed >risk for perhaps >return. Scary. Under consideration. And not unnoticed. The die is cast, ye … #
• 10:05 Looking forward to the first Mobile Monday in Miami tonight, 7pm at Gordon Biersch, Brickell Ave #
• 10:08 @jchutchins Congrats on your new job at Myxer #
• 10:10 @cschick Thank you! Miami’s got a lot going for it and we like living here … Nokia’s here, too Hoping you’ll visit soon. #
• 11:20 With about 250 to 300 people that participated in BarCampMiami, I regret not having organized a food drive for the homeless. Next time. #
• 11:42 @gapingvoid Was great hanging out with Jason and you last night … and what a view! www.gapingvoid.com/miamibeach234mmm.jpg #
• 12:01 @scobleizer congrats for www.fastcompany.tv/ ! @shelisrael I’m looking forward to GNTV! #
• 17:09 Today’s Mobile Monday, the first in Miami, starts at 7:30pm at Gordon Biersch, 1201 Brickell Ave. tinyurl.com/35gm5o #
• 17:35 @mojosd thanks! @danrubin you’re right, we’ve got to figure that out #
• 21:47 @sass almost there #
• 21:48 At Miami’s first Mobile Monday meetup #
• 21:50 @sass streamed Mobile Monday Miami qik.com/video/30558 #
• 21:50 @sass is talking about Myxer, they’ve got 6.1 Million users, adding 30,000 every day! #
• 21:51 @davidparmet thanks for the post about BarCampMiami tinyurl.com/38v7j3 #

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• 11:00 @shelisrael Additional advice to new tweeters: post link to your blog; use your real name if possible; find your friends and add them first. #
• 11:05 Announcing first Mobile Monday Miami event (free) on March 3rd, 2008. Please RSVP here tinyurl.com/35gm5o #
• 13:02 Vote for your favorite web app and win a ticket to FOWA, courtesy of @mashable tinyurl.com/332pcu #
• 14:58 @shashib grats for a great interview in @shelisrael ’s blog; Joost didn’t do anything for SB: I meant Twitter made SB watching social online #
• 19:07 Not so nice: screenshot of Flickr + Microsoft, via @laughingsquid tinyurl.com/3xzdgp #
• 20:06 I’m running an ad on Facebook and got 6,032 impressions and just 3 clicks (0.05% CTR) … not so good, huh? Back to the drawing board … #

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• 00:04 Explaining Twitter to a friend, Jens, who’s being very sceptical and snarky …. #
• 00:17 @leahjones @conniereece it’s Jens, “man w/ no followers!. Alex did gr8t job explaining twit world, yet receiving 1k sms/day overwhelmng+spam #
• 01:04 Over time, we’ll all end up following each other here + it’ll be one big love fest, won’t it. Following > unfollowing. Numbers always … #
• 01:07 @loiclemeur You don’t use Flickr? Many of us do. Oh and MyBlogLog and del.icio.us too: I care what happens to all my published stuff there! #
• 01:11 @richbecker Jung might have said there’s a collective Twitter unconscious; Twitter is still small enough that we’re all in the zeitgeist… #
• 01:13 @loiclemeur Right, these Yahoo! assets like Flickr rock, we hope they will remain awesome under new management #
• 01:22 @adriennea I’m so sorry to hear this news, my condolensces to you, this must be very difficult. #
• 01:34 @genuine twitterback is the new black! Rock on, etc. #
• 01:36 @jjprojects tame or lame? j/k #
• 01:40 @jjprojects I hear you, just a bit of late night friendly snark is all #
• 01:44 @davetaylor @genuine Seriously, tinyurls and similar rob some serious Google juice, we should have the choice of using real or tiny URLs! #
• 01:47 @richbecker Of course, if you’re a part of the zeitgeist, what’s not to like? These are the best of times, enjoy it while it lasts #
• 01:52 @jjprojects Seesmic video inside SL is a bit meta and bizarre, b/c you’d be mixing your real life identity with your SL avatar: pros + cons #
• 01:55 @sink Makes one wonder, doesn’t it; + worry too Where will Republican campaign come from ultimately? Who benefits from “100 yr” occupation? #
• 02:05 @gervis Convention is L:Miami #
• 02:09 @rslux there’s a delete/trash button … Far from perfect, but useful nonetheless #
• 02:17 @tommypjr Pinker rocks at TED, enjoy! #
• 02:19 @annierocks you rock! If we haven’t dm’d yet, we must!!! #
• 02:30 @kaysha Blow them away! Break a leg, etc. #
• 02:38 @kr8tr we remain humble, 4 life’s fleeting + we all suffer ups+downs: all’s a mirror reflection of our vanities +doubts #
• 02:43 Ok, tweeting one’s thoughts in 140 characters poses its challenges … #
• 02:55 @cschick yes, often; sometimes not, though: the art’s in one’s own conviction + we know the best art’s in literature, not Twitter don’t we? #
• 03:18 @missrogue rest, relaxation, de-stressing and time-off are an equally important part of life #
• 13:08 53-yr old Sarkozy married 40-yr old singer and model Carla Bruni today, making it the first time a French President marries while in office. #
• 17:03 New event: Mobile Monday Miami, March 3rd, 2008 tinyurl.com/35gm5o ( @florianseroussi I hope you can attend ) #

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Blogs have taken off in Paris, but not Wikis. The first wiki Wednesday debuts this Wednesday, 7 September along the lines of Tag Tuesdays and the highly successful Mobile Mondays, which, by the way, do not have Paris chapters either.

The European venue (!) is in London and Ross Mayfield will be in London.

Let’s get the ball rolling in Paris. Here are the details for the Paris gathering:

Wednesday, Sept 7 / Mercredi, 7 septembre. 19:30

Chez Wat.

• 21, rue Juliette Dodu
• 75010 Paris
• Web : http://chezwat.fr/
• Métro : Colonel Fabien, Belleville, Goncourt

The get together is run in partnership with Paris Carnet, where over 60 people have already signed up.

Link: Wiki Wednesdays – Wiki Wednesdays.

• The next (first) Wiki Wednesday is: September 7, 2005
• Wiki Wednesdays are held the first Wednesday of each month
• People get together to chat, learn about wikis, find jobs, talk deals and generally cavort
• Socialtext picks a location, buys some ice cream (yup, bringing back the ice cream social)
• You RSVP and swing by if you like
• Hurricane Help: Socialtext will forward all funds from donation jars at Wiki Wednesday locations to the American Red Cross, or you can donate online: http://www.redcross.org/

Via Roy Lindemann of Readspeaker.

Full disclosure: SocialText has graciously offered me a year’s trial use. I maintain a dark wiki and my public one is at wiki.francebrazil.com, for the year of Brazil in France.

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