If the sky doesn't fall, we'll be busy

When I meet people at conferences, as I did yesterday, people ask me what I do. I have better results trying to explain how neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light. I usually say, "Anything for a buck," and go from there.
Here's what in the queue:

• Yesterday, I attended ONA11 Law School for Digital Journalists at Harvard. The sessions included a review of copyright, libel, trademarks, advertising and other law topics related to operating a newsroom. We heard a great presentation from the folks from The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press who provide legal guidance and services for journalists.
  I ran into Brittany Durgin of Worcester Magazine.
  During the conference, various people took turns taking notes in a shared Google document. The presentations will be posted on the Online News Association real soon now.
• I ducked out of the last session so I could make it to the other side of Cambridge and attend a forum on Local News in the Digital Age. Hosted by Northeastern journalism professor Dan Kennedy, we heard from WGBH's Callie Crossley, Universal Hub's Adam Gaffin, and the Boston Globe's David Dahl. I'll have more to say on this in a future blog.
• During afternoon, Facebook held the kickoff session for its f8 developer conference. Plenty of changes to delight some, annoy many, and drive more than a few people away. There was lots of discussion in Twitter, Google+, private chats, and, yes, even on Facebook.
  At the end, like it or not, Facebook made changes because it makes strategic sense for them. As Nicholas Carlson of Business Insider said,
  

  The principle hallmark of Facebook's run from a small Harvard-only Web site to a service approaching a billion regular users has been Mark Zuckerberg's willingness to pull the rug out from underneath of those users and change up the site.
  

  via Facebook Users Are About To Riot Over Massive Changes, And This Is Fantastic News For Facebook

• Class 2 of  21st Century Village | A W.I.S.E. course on social networking tomorrow. I get to try to explain the Facebook mishegas. 
• Another story and another blog post  or two for Telegram Towns. 
• As a follow-up to my blog post about Lew Evangelidis, I've received a rich inventory of material from Guy Beales, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) about the treatment of mental illness in inmates. More to come on this.
• Install an Ultra-Bay adapter and SATA drive on my laptop. 
• Complete a couple of projects for which people will provide the aforementioned buck.

There are also many friends and family members to whom I owe notes, phone calls, and visits. Plenty of explanations,  but no excuses.
Meanwhile, we're wondering what's going to come out of the clouds besides rain. A couple dozen pieces from an old weather satellite are due to come out of orbit and crash into most likely water, somewhat likely land, very unlikely (1 in 3200 chance) a person, or (4.46428571 × 10^-14 ) you.
Good luck.
Wear a hat.