Thank you to those who have signed up for the Facebook substitute. I went through the 800 or so FB “friends” that I have, and there were about forty that I sent invites to, who I thought might actually be interested in getting the updates. It seems to me that if a lot of people did this and pinged each other, informal networks would begin to form and something interesting might happen. It will cost me about $50 a year to WordPress and I paid another, unnecessary, $40 or so for the .nyc domain (but that money comes to DoITT, so it seemed like a nice idea).