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Hilllary and me

January 10, 2008

Spock Lawyers I read with interest Bob Ambrogi’s recent endorsement of Spock, a new social networking – community site that ‘searches the internet to help you find information about people in your life.’ Until then, I didn’t give much thought to the invites I was receiving from friends to join what I thought was some Internet cult group of Star Trek followers. You know – Spock, half Vulcan & half human.

With Bob’s endorsement and continuing email invites from folks I know wanting me to join their ‘Trust Network on Spock.com,’ I decided what the heck. I’ll register, accept the invites, and see how this Spock thing works.

The first thing you’re prompted to do at Spock is expand your network – locate and connect with people in your life. You can search for anyone or just people within your network. And you can do it by keyword, as opposed to just a name.

Spock social network lawyer

I’m a lawyer so I key in lawyer. Rather than get everyone in Spock who’s a lawyer (knowing there must be many ‘Spock lawyers’), I limit my search to only lawyers in my network. My search results in only one person in my life.

Spock Hillary Clinton

Yes, Hillary Clinton. And Spock wants you to expand your network to folks in the network of those already in your network. So I click on Hillary’s related Spock people. Sure enough.

Spock Bill Clinton Chelsea Clinton

I tell you, I hardly know the Clintons. Sure, if I ran into them on the street I would recognize them. Though I doubt they would recognize me. I’ve never been invited over to the house for a Christmas open house or anything. Chelsea’s never done anything with any of our five kids.

But I guess when Hillary and Bill are next out in Seattle raising money I ought to ‘send a message’ to her through Spock. Invite her to swing by the office or see if she and Bill want to come by and meet Jill and I for a beer.

And Wow, if she gets elected. When I’m in Washington, just ping her through Spock. Stay in the Lincoln Bedroom without having to make a $25,000 donation to the Democrat party. This Spock thing is so cool.

I forgot to tell you that on the next line below Bill and Chelsea in Hillary’s related people I should connect with on Spock are Monica Lewinsky, John Edwards, Laura Bush, and Barbara Bush. Wait till I tell the kids!

Wonder if Hillary knows Monica is in the family network still?

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