Rachel Kramer Bussel of Cupcakes Take the Cake is in town this weekend tasting cupcakes as well as doing a couple seminars at Smitten Kitten. I got to introduce her to Sheela Namakkal of Miel y Leche and some of the best cupcakes Minneapolis has to offer.
More cupcake photos and if you’re interested in hearing Rachel speak she will be doing a free erotica reading at Smitten Kitten on Sunday at 6:00 - 7:30 P.M.
Even though a few people have had it for awhile, Facebook Chat launched for the rest of us today. Just what I need: another network to chat on.
One of the things I noticed right away is that there is no “away” status like most instant messaging clients. You’re either online, offline or idle. It got me thinking again on a subject that comes up with friends and I quite a bit: “What is the purpose of an ‘away’ message anyway?” I don’t think there is any standard netiquette.
Some people treat it like an answering machine. When they see you’re “away” they’ll IM you anyway knowing you’ll get the message when you’re back.
Some people treat their “away” status as a way to limit incoming chat traffic knowing that less people will bother you if you’re listed as “away.”
Generally, I use my “away” message as a way to let people know I don’t want to be bothered by IM. For one example, if my away message says “Meeting,” that means I’m in a meeting and don’t want to accept chats. I stay online in case I need to ask a coworker or friend a quick question during that meeting. There’s a number of situations where I want to remain connected to the network in “away” mode and not wanting to receive chats that I don’t initiate.
I rarely IM people that are in “away” mode unless it’s urgent or I think it’s important.
Some people argue that if you don’t want to receive chats you should be offline, not “away.” It looks like that’s the philosophy Facebook had when deciding how their instant messaging client worked.
I’m curious: how do you use the “away” message?
Ed Kohler earlier this week wrote about friends on Facebook and decided to disconnect from anyone on the service that wasn’t using a real name or used a real photo of themselves. I did the same thing, although I did keep a few people that didn’t have a profile photo yet.
I think a part of one of Facebook’s developer resources says it best:
The Facebook profile is the online representation of the user’s real world identity.
I don’t use Facebook as an alternate universe for real life, I use it as an extension to real relationships with real people. But some people site privacy concerns. I have a couple opinions.
My first opinion: if one wants to make fake profiles that hide your identity, there’s a ton of other services that are designed for this kind of flexibility. Having fake profiles on Facebook dilutes the quality of the service. It’s part of their terms of service and it’s why they will remove people with falsified names and fake profiles.
My second opinion: Learn about Facebook’s privacy settings. They’re extensive. I think the defaults are generally suitable for most people but the option is there if you are not comfortable.
My third opinion: Journalists have three magic words: “off the record.” It means that things that are shared verbally or through another medium do not get published. For the sake of argument, anyone that publishes photos and video (potentially of you) on Facebook could be considered a citizen journalist. If you don’t want photos of you doing certain things showing up on Facebook, tell your friends it’s “off the record.” I get asked all the time to “not blog about this” or “don’t post this photo publicly” and I always respect those wishes.
If I’ve removed you from Facebook, don’t take it personally. It’s just how I want to use the service: an online extension of real relationships with real people.
Co-worker of mine has a 15″ PowerBook G4 that started having the keys on the keyboard rub off. She argued it was because she works so hard. I argued it had to do with the lotion she puts on her hands all the time.
Then an accident that involved tripping over the power cord caused the power plug and the casing around it to warp. Now it only charges if the plug is in there at exactly the right angle. She blames her husband.
This weekend she instant messages telling me that she left her PowerBook G4 on the trunk of her car. She went through some winding roads, a few stop signs and finally 1.3 miles later it fell off into an intersection. She didn’t know this at the time though. After hours of searching she got in touch with the police. It was found by someone and brought to them and an officer delivered it to her house six hours after the fact.
The kicker is that she was messaging me from that same computer. I’m impressed it still works. I’m not sure what her deal is with computers as she’s actually quite nice to me.
I’m a big fan of Creative Commons. If you’re not familiar, Creative Commons is a solution for licensing work that’s more flexible than copyright but with more control thatn public domain. It’s a way to allow other people to use your work freely with simple requirements such as requiring attribution or asking it not be used for commercial purposes. If you want to learn more about Creative Commons, I strongly recommend Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig’s talk at TED as well as Creative Commons’ about page.
I release almost all of my photography on Flickr under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. In basic terms, this means that anyone can use my photography freely as long as they give me credit and it’s for non-commercial use. I think it’s a very flexible license especially for other bloggers and nonprofit organizations. For anyone that wants to use my photography for other means, I’m very clear on my Flickr page to contact me if you’d like to use my photography for other means.
In most cases that people contact me wishing to use my photography, I let them use it for free. Although I do charge for for-profit print publications, for example.
On Wednesday night a photo of mine (shown above) showed up on Boing Boing with my hand with my OLPC Laptop in my living room. It’s not often that I show up on what’s considered by some to be the most popular and one of the most authoritative blogs in the world. My photo was posted without attribution and in a commercial situation. (Boing Boing, incorporated as Happy Mutants LLC, certainly makes money.)
Normally I am not surprised when someone uses my photography on their website without attribution as it’s common right now for copyright and Creative Commons to be ignored in this kind of context. What is surprising about this situation is that this post on Boing Boing is written by Cory Doctorow, one of the most vocal advocates of Creative Commons in the world. He’s featured on Creative Commons’ website as he’s published entire books under Creative Commons licenses. Doctorow talks about Creative Commons so much that on BoingBoingBingo “Creative Commons is So Awesome” and “Cory’s Book is Translated” (a natural benefit of Creative Commons licensing) are two squares on most of the bingo boards.
So why would Cory Doctorow use my photo in a way that breaks the Creative Commons license? It has to be a mistake, right?
I went back to the story that Boing Boing linked to, a story on OLPC News about overclocking the XO Laptop. A lower resolution version of my photo is used there and it links back to my original Flickr page. As far as attribution goes, this is good enough for me and this kind of use.
What’s interesting though is that Boing Boing used a higher resolution version of the photo than what’s posted on OLPC News. This means that Doctorow would have had to click the image and go to my Flickr page to get a version of the photo to place on Boing Boing. On that Flickr page is the Creative Commons license.
So I commented on that Boing Boing post: “I’m a bit disappointed that Boing Boing, which is a pretty avid supporter of Creative Commons didn’t follow the CC license on the photo, which was shot by me.” I also sent Cory Doctorow an email asking him to replace the photo or to follow the license. I also gave him permission to use the photo (although Boing Boing isn’t non-profit) if he links back to my Flickr page with attribution. I got no reply from Doctorow, but a few people chimed in with support in the comments.
As with many stories on Boing Boing, other blogs re-blog the content to reach their own audiences and spur their own conversations about it. Creative Commons is designed around this idea of information sharing and republishing, but if one part of the chain doesn’t give attribution and rereleases it under another Creative Commons license, it doesn’t do it’s job.
My friend Ed Hunsinger pointed out to me that Slash Gear picked up the story and the same photo without attribution or a link back. I commented right away and Slash Gear editor James Allan Brady fixed it up right away. Ed later showed me that MAKE blog posted about it too and didn’t give attribution to my photo either. I commented on their blog about it but as of right now is still not approved nor has their post been updated to respect the license.
I’m almost positive that other blogs have reposted the content of Boing Boing’s post as well. All it takes is for one person in the chain to disregard the license for the license to be broken on all subsequent uses.
I am not upset at anyone but I am curious. I would let almost anyone use that photography for free, even in many commercial situations. The photo isn’t anything special to me and I have no reason to need extra traffic to that photo on Flickr. This situation has caused me to think more about Creative Commons and how much more realistic it is than copyright as we move more into a culture of information and media sharing at levels that are hard for most people to imagine. If one of the biggest mouthpieces for Creative Commons will seemingly disregard a Creative Commons license and not respond when being asked to fix it, what does that tell us about a future when Creative Commons becomes more widespread?
Fun to wake up the next morning to see a lot of good comments and emails.
Most importantly, Cory Doctorow fixed the post on Boing Boing. He didn’t get my email but he was alerted to the comments on the post just recently (many of which seem to be removed except for mine). He apologized and said it was an honest mistake. I believe him completely. We’ve shared a couple good emails. I still think this situation raises questions of how effective Creative Commons can be, most importantly among people that disregard copyright in the first place.
Thumbuki writes in the comments that the same thing happened to him on the same day:
(Original Photo, Boing Boing post). This one also has since been fixed.
Joshua Benton writes a very insightful post that addresses my interpretation of “commercial” and illustrates how vague Creative Commons is in this regard. Recommended reading.
Derek Powazek chime ins with a similar example of his wife’s photography used on Boing Boing TV. The kicker here is that his wife also happens to be the Community Manager at Flickr. Boing Boing also eventually resolved this one by removing the photo.
Taylor Carik Takes a look at The New Social Circulation: Frontline, Out of Print, and the XO Laptop Photo
Nature photographer Jim M. Goldstein chimes in on the issue that Creative Commons is only as good as those that use it.
More links and discussion in the comments. A lot of great conversation on this topic; thanks everyone.
I like the idea of a service where I get updated on the interesting things my friends are up to in real-time.
I was a big fan of Dodgeball, a service in which you “check in” via your phone with a text message that maps you to a location such as a music venue, bar or restaurant. Then it notifies your friends where you’re at. Useful and effective. They later added a “shout out” feature to send messages to your friends that weren’t location-specific. It was smart for letting your friends know where you’re going before you get there. Google bought Dodgeball in May 2005 and development seemed to go dry. It must have been frustrating. The founders of Dodgeball left Google in April 2007.
Meanwhile, Twitter launched in October 2006 as a service that I thought did less than Dodgeball. You could answer whatever you wanted to the question “What are you doing?” I was initially skeptical of the open-ended nature of this question but little did I know what it’d become! Worried about the signal to noise ratio, I couldn’t help to bring it up when I was interviewed on Future Tense about what Twitter is in March 2007:
…some people will continue to post stuff about, you know, “I’m feeding my cat” or “I’m driving to work.” And a lot of other people end up realizing, maybe I should only publish the stuff that somebody might actually be interested in. And those are the kinds of people I love subscribing to, because they realize “I have an audience here, so I’m just going to publish stuff people might have a bit of interest in.” I tend to not watch the people who end up talking about their commute every morning.”
Little did I realize that more and more people would use Twitter in ways that actually ignores the question “What are you doing?” Also, I was used to Dodgeball, a service that told me directly where people were at and little more.
I’m generally a fan of using an infrastructure of a service in a way that is beyond it’s intention when the results are good. For example, notifying people of emergencies or tragedy is a useful mis-use of Twitter. Unfortunately most of the alternative uses of Twitter, in my strong opinion, take away from the service more they give.
When someone tells you what they’re doing many times there’s an undeniable urge to respond to it. In principle this is a good thing and Twitter gave us the perfect method to handle it with a direct message. I’d argue that this feature hasn’t been used that much and historically most people post replies to other people’s messages as a public message. In other words, instead of telling their friends what they are doing, they send out a message to their followers that’s a reply to someone else they are following. For everyone that receives this when they don’t follow the person they’re replying to, they’re essentially receiving noise. Most everyone who has been on Twitter for awhile has gotten messages like this — the ones where you ask yourself, “what the heck are they talking about?”
As far as I am aware it was was a combination of people not knowing the direct message feature and people wanting to reply publicly that caused the format of the public reply to be more or less standardized as “@username.” Twitter recognized the issue of public replies without context so they gave Twitter the functionality to recognize the @reply notation causing your Twitter message, when viewed from the website, to link back to the user you they are replying to. A good idea but I think it reinforced the wrong mindset: it takes away from answering “What are you doing?”.
Note that it was after people starting using the @reply notation that Twitter developed a system to formally support it.
When people choose to reply publicly to people instead of direct message these days, I don’t think there is generally much thought by most users of how it’s received by people that didn’t see the context of what they were sending. I won’t blame Twitter’s users for this though as this is Twitter’s fault.
I think that by adding the @reply-recognizing functionality, Twitter intentionally or not started to strongly encourage the use of public replies. A couple months ago I got more ammo for my argument that Twitter prefers that people use public replies opposed to a private direct message regardless of the content of the message because they did one more simple “upgrade”: the reply button. Well, the reply button by itself isn’t proof but it was their choice on what the button does. Instead of plopping in the notation for sending a direct message to your friend it forces a public reply. Why would Twitter create a “reply” button that sends a public message instead of a direct, private reply?
Anyone who’s been on Twitter more than a year has noticed it’s a lot more “chatty” and contains less broadcasting what people are doing. Unfortunately, people that have joined Twitter in the last six months or less don’t know Twitter any other way and likely consider this type of chatter normal.
Sidenotes: UPOC is a service I’ve used for over five years and it’s perfect for SMS chat with multiple people. Same with AIM, Meebo and Jabber clients if you’re sitting at a computer. Why not use this for chat? I also think that Quotably, a service that tries to piece together Twitter conversations via the @reply notation is pretty humorous.
The link aggregators are people that treat Twitter like a link blog in a manner similar to del.icio.us or Tumblr or those who use Twitter as a means of syndicating links to their own content. They’re the people that instead of answering “What are you doing?” are pushing URLs. Why would I want to get links sent to me this way? I subscribe to your feeds, add you as a friend on del.icio.us and follow you on Tumblr so I can find out the latest stuff you’re reading and linking to. I subscribe to your Twitter feed because I want to find out what you’re doing right now, not because I need aggregation in multiple places.
I want to arm wrestle Alex King for creating Twitter Tools for WordPress. That plug-in, when used to automatically post a URL to Twitter on your behalf every single time you create a new blog post is one of the most annoying things on Twitter. Especially because like many people that use Twitter, I use an RSS reader to read blogs. I don’t use Twitter to get notifications of when to go to your website every single time it’s updated. I was joking with Ed Kohler last week about Twitter and he was quick to jab that he is “not down with people who Tweet under the assumption that everyone is sitting at their desk and interested in being carpet bombed with URLs.”
It’s frustrating that it’s been generally accepted now that this kind of use of Twitter is okay. Just tell me what you’re up to on Twitter and I’ll read about your links and blogs on your websites.
This is the miscellaneous category I guess. It’s the folks that use Twitter to relay what other people are saying, to organize “wars”, live blog events, make jokes and one-liners, give weather reports, greet their followers every morning or to complain about the day of the week and their commute. Either way, they’re not telling me anything interesting about what they’re doing.
I use Twitter because I want to know what you’re doing!
There are quite a few people that I have stopped following because of one one of the three reasons above. I like these people but we don’t use Twitter the same way.
For the last time, I like the idea of a service where I get updated on the interesting things my friends are up to in real-time.
Without getting too granular and without imposing any rules whatsoever (although I do find the Ten Commandments hilarious and accurate), I think having a simple preference that suppresses Twitter messages that contain @reply and URLs would do the trick. I ask, if you’ve already read this far, spend a minute and think of the ramifications if people used a feature like this and what it would mean for the future of Twitter. I think it’s really quite positive. Twitter already recognizes to a point the importance of something like this as they suppress messages containing the @reply notation when updating your Facebook status on Twitter’s own Facebook application.
…or perhaps more realistically…
Remove that text from Twitter that says in big letters, “What are you doing?”
Just leave the blank text box. Let’s be honest here: it would make it more clear as to what Twitter really is and at the same time admits the kind of medium Twitter’s become (or perhaps always was). It’s truly a 140 character blank slate of whatever you want to put in it regardless of my perceived signal to noise ratio.
It would stop me from being a Twitter purist and I’ll go somewhere else.
I just want a service that lets me know what my friends are doing.
UPDATE: Sara points out that Twitter recently added the ability to block messages with the @reply notation. That helps, and I flipped that switch on my account just now.
UPDATE 27 Mar 08: This exploded into a pretty good conversation about what Twitter is and is not and how people don’t agree on it at all (and should they?). I had a ton of good conversations in person, via IM and email about this in the last 48 hours in addition to the comments. For kicks I’m going to flip-flop and treat Twitter as the free-for-all service it’s become. I started following all the people I said I stopped followed. I’ve changed my habits a bit to go along with what’s perceived as the mainstream. We’ll see how it goes. I’ll probably write something in April about it but I’ll probably talk more about what I really would love as a next-generation service, which Twitter wasn’t, isn’t and probably won’t ever be.
I got my XO Laptop shipped via FedEx this morning. In the box was the laptop itself, a battery, a charger and two sheets of paper, one of them being a thank you note from Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and CEO of One Laptop per Child and the other simply shows how to open the laptop, what the ports are and a short description of the home and neighborhood views. There’s no other documentation.
This is my second time with one of these, the first being in DC with Mike. The first things I’ve noticed right away compared to the pre-production unit I played with: the logo color on the top is different, the applications and interface feel a bit more refined and the applications feel a bit snappier.
I was reminded that it is small. Even my small cat thinks its small.
I’ve also (finally) had two very, very important things sink into me when working with these devices. First, I needed to remove my initial conceptions and expectations on what a laptop is and what it’s used for. For example, the first time I played with one the two applications I initially opened were the web browser and RSS reader. While web browsing and RSS work fine on the laptops, it’s not exactly the primary reason why these laptops exist. Secondly, I’ve learned to realize that these were truly designed for very young children from the ground up, not for adults using adult software and existing ideas on how interfaces should work. For example, Nicholas Deleon wrote at CrunchGear that the idea of porting Windows XP to this laptop “gives [it] an air of legitimacy.” I was so disappointed in his post showing how little some people understand the XO Laptop’s purpose.
What is it’s purpose? The XO Laptop was created as a tool for children for spreading information, learning and collaborating with others, especially in countries and remote areas where technology and educational materials are sparse. Likely, many of the kids that use an XO Laptop have not used a web browser before, let alone an RSS reader (or the necessity to be compatible with Microsoft Windows).
Opening up and booting my new XO Laptop for the first time lead me put in my name and then to choose my avatar’s color scheme. It then put me on the home view where you can choose activities to load from the bottom, similar to an OS X dock. On the top right of the screen as well as the keyboard are four icons that are a way of navigating. On the far left is the neighborhood view, which shows your laptop in comparison to everything else it sees on the network. The next is the group icon, which shows other laptops you are collaborating with. Next is home, which shows your laptop and the activities it is running. Finally, the far right button is activity, which shows your current running application.
Moving your mouse cursor at any time in any of the four corners of the screen brings up a frame containing those four icons at the top as well as the available activities at the bottom to load another application.
The bundled activities have a wide range of depth including Memorize, which is a simple memory game to programming languages such as one similar to Logo called TurtleArt and Pippy, a front-end for coding in Python. There’s also some other applications for building other games and programs from scratch which are currently way over my head. I thought about the appropriateness for such a young age for awhile and then remembered when I started writing my own code: at age 5 on an Atari 800XL. I realized that many people my age that are involved with technology now started by writing stuff on machines like that or others such as the Commodore 64. Man, learning languages is a lot easier to pick up at that age. 
Bundled as well is a very simple application for playing live music and another for recording audio and video. There’s a more advanced application for sequencing music too. There’s a basic calculator that has advanced algebraic functions, a word processor, chat application and a number of other applications including a full terminal (deep down it runs a stripped down version of Fedora Linux). Again, the applications really do range from extremely basic to advanced. A lot more applications are in development.
The key ingredient to making the XO Laptop work, in my opinion, is its collaboration features. The XO Laptop is designed to build its own mesh networks, and most of the applications are designed to communicate and share information with other laptops on those networks. For example you can have a project that was built on one laptop, and immediately share it with all the other laptops on the network. The mesh networks will also share an internet connection if it’s available.
Also a teacher or a school can have a server that delivers information to all the laptops when kids are near, and they can then take that information home to their communities and families and share it. The future of how books in classrooms and information is spread really gets my gears turning on the possibilities of these devices… and this is just version 1.0.
My XO Laptop came with a US AC outlet charger, but the port is designed to take a very wide range of power sources for charging the battery. Foot pumps, hand cranks and solar panel grids are possibilities.
I’ve had a few hiccups with it so far. For example, while it seemed to see a ton of wireless networks in my area, I had a hard time staying connected to my home WiFi. I couldn’t get WiFi working at all at the Town Talk Diner but could use it fine from my phone. Also, when the screen is folded back there were times where it would cause the mouse cursor to move by rubbing against the trackpad underneath.
Peter Fleck asked what I plan on doing with the laptop. Honestly, I don’t know. I support the One Laptop per Child project and wanted to donate one through the Give One. Get One. program. That was my primary reason for getting one. I can’t see myself using this as a normal laptop by any means as it isn’t really designed to be really fast or use a lot of applications simultaneously. It doesn’t match up with my device habits currently so I don’t know in what capacity I’ll use it. I don’t plan on writing applications for it. Also, the browsing speed is comparable to my iPhone on WiFi. I’ll probably tinker more and learn more of the applications. It’s only my first couple hours and I’ll be diving into it further. Honestly though, I think it’s possible that when I’m done telling everyone I know about the project in the next few months I’ll donate it to an organization that will have more use for it than I will.
See more photos with my OLPC tag on Flickr.
Last night I crashed The UpTake’s Correspondents’ Meeting to check out their brand new office space. The last time I saw them was at their fundraiser in October.
The UpTake is a media and technology services organization that publishes and trains citizen journalists with a strong focus on video. While there are a lot of citizen journalists and unaffiliated bloggers, videographers and writers out there, there are not many part of an organized group. The UpTake is trying to fill that gap and already is doing a great job. They have correspondents in Minnesota, Colorado and Iowa and they’re growing quickly. The UpTake helps people develop and capture stories as well as train people on equipment, software, journalistic ethics and storytelling. They’re also a backbone for people that need help covering stories, editing and publishing. The UpTake also keeps track of events and stories so multiple people aren’t covering the same thing. It’s a pretty interesting model.
Their angle is to cover what the mainstream media isn’t covering or can’t cover or don’t cover enough of. One figures, it wouldn’t be as valuable for citizen journalists and The UpTake to cover what is already being covered elsewhere, right?
While not really a political organization, their focus now has been on covering local and national politics. Their new office is located a block away from the Xcel Energy Center, where the Republican National Convention will be held in 2008. You can see the whole center from the roof too. A former dentist office, it has at least 12 rooms which will be converted into editing suites, offices and small studio spaces.
A couple friends of mine are deeply involved and I’ve been impressed with the organization. They really know what they’re doing and are ramping up very quickly. They’ll be a big player around RNC time.
On the MTN 17 10:00-11:00PM time slot on Sundays a show called Call-In Karaoke used to play where with the magic of Karaoke Revolution and Chroma Key, television viewers in Minneapolis could call-in and sing on live television while in-studio dancers try to entertain and distract you. It was a hilarious experiment produced by Hamil Griffin-Cassidy. Check out this prime example on YouTube of someone trying to sing Britney Spears’ Toxic. The show became a cult hit: it gained some MySpace friends and Facebook groupies and only those who got their phone timing perfectly could even get in on the show. I got to help out in the studio a few times.
As I posted about six months ago, Comcast bought out Time Warner’s cable market in Minneapolis and some technology changes happened soon after, one of which caused a delay on live broadcasts from MTN. It’s not easy to sing over the phone when what you’re hearing is a few seconds late.
The show evolved into poeTVision, where poems were scrolled across the screen for callers and and people read them. Then they started reading their own poems or rapping.
It got to the point where the show became a semi-controlled free-for-all experiment where callers can choose to say or do anything they want for a period of time. Meanwhile, the sounds and visuals started to become more and more varied and abstract. Now, the “goal,” if there is one, is to create some of the weirdest and most strange television in Minneapolis and letting anyone who calls in help out by saying whatever they want to say. I think it’s working. While Hamil has continued to host and produce the program, he has had various people provide music and direct. I’ve gotten the pleasure of directing the last few episodes and last Sunday was a bonus: four baby kittens were brought in to help. You can watch the entire thing on Blip.tv. Skip around if you don’t want to watch it for an hour. There are portions that are very strange and abstract. Some parts may be hard to watch.
What drives me to this program is that while everything may seem out of order, it’s a realtime experiment on what happens when people, safely in their own homes and without needing to identify themselves are able to broadcast themselves over live television. In a few years, when television and the internet become closer to being the same thing, I think a similar kind of environment that this show creates is going to be a lot more widespread. So while everything might seem of a very low production value, to me it’s really a taste of the future of the weird possibilities in giving individuals a platform to broadcast themselves in a way that’s very different than current conventions of internet blogging, forums, message boards and vlogs. Right now, this show is all about play. I’m glad I’ve been able to participate and help out. Where my mind is though, is that it’s going to be an interesting world soon when more and more people are going to have louder and louder voices. This is just a taste of how weird things could get.
If you’re in Minneapolis and have Comcast Cable, tune in MTN 17 at 10:00PM on Sundays.
As an aside, check out the crew playing with cats after the show. They were apparently rescued “from a crack house” and I believe a couple of them are still looking for homes. They are very playful, healthy and cute. If you know of a good home for a kitten, let me know.
