The July CMUG meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 21st at 7:30 pm, at the East Columbia Library.
    Our presentation will be on Shopping Via The Internet, with a focus on Amazon.com, and maybe a little discussion of Amazon's recent purchase of Woot.com. CMUG member Paul Van Bloem will do part of the presentation, but we encourage members to discuss their own online shopping experiences.
    Hope to see you on Wednesday at 7:30 pm at the East Columbia Library.

Thanks to Dave Methvin of PC Pitstop for his talk on "Online Security and Privacy" at the June meeting. Dave writes several times a week at Information Week; recently, Dave penned this article discussing why desktop PCs won't be going away any time soon.

At the June meeting, the proposed slate of officers was unanimously elected. These happen to be the same officers who have served for the past 12 months. Thanks for your service, and we appreciate your willingness to continue serving. CMUG's officers for the July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011 term are:

• President: John Weske
• Vice President: Larry Medoff
• Treasurer: Sumi Kinoshita
• Secretary: Phil Krug

Meeting Location
We are currently holding our meetings at the East Columbia Library, which is at 6600 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045. It's about 3 miles from the Bain Center, but only about a mile from Route 29. Here's a Google Map you can use to find your way.
    Go in the main entrance of the building, and the meeting room is on your right before you get to the library space proper.

Thanks to George Coffin for his show-and-tell on Facebook and LinkedIn at the April and May meetings.

Recent Articles on FaceBook

NY Times, May 12: Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking

Washington Post, May 19: Muslim anger prompts Pakistan to block Facebook

Washington Post, Faster Forward, May 17: Facebook meets the "Unlike" button

South Park's FaceBook episode is now available online
(original air date: April 7)
Episode 1404: You Have 0 Friends

Wired, Game Life, May 19:
Farm Wars: How Facebook Games Harvest Big Bucks

Thanks to Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post for his discussion of smart phones at the March meeting. Rob blogs regularly at Faster Forward on the Washington Post website.

Thanks to Andrew Rein and his colleagues from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) for their presentation on Google Wave at the February meeting.

The last few issues of the CMUG Megaphone are available here in PDF form: June 2008, May, April, March, February, January 2008, December 2007, November, October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February, and January 2007.
   Since we have the space, I've also put the PDF files for the 2006 issues of The Megaphone online: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, and Dec.