Dan Barkin:On the share.triangle.com forum about Dwayne Dail (share.triangle.com/node/11596), who was sent to prison for life for a crime he didn't commit, readers of Mandy Locke's story last weekend weighed in. One of the posts, from a reader in New York,

Dan Barkin:I wanted to talk to Fred Stutzman, a UNC doctoral student, about Facebook and other social networking sites, and I ended up learning something about my kids.

Dan Barkin:I know a lot of you have been weighing the candidates and trying to make some big decisions.

Dan Barkin:We know there are lots of organizations that are trying to do good works for the needy during this season but need help trying to reach donors and volunteers.

Dan Barkin:Raleigh is updating its comprehensive plan, which sounds like an eat-your-vegetables kind of subject.

Dan Barkin:This week, I've been working on the editing of this page, because it is linked with triangle.com and its Share community participation site. When we launched this page last spring, a good chunk of it was written by our staff.

Dan Barkin:A couple of days ago, we launched the new version of triangle.com, and this was a pretty big deal for us, because it involved lots of folks here working for months -- for some, up to a year.

Dan Barkin:The thing about a drought is that we learn more about each other. For example, we have learned that a Charles Meeker of Raleigh is turning off the shower while he shampoos.

Dan Barkin:I was going through share.triangle.com this week, looking at photos submitted by hundreds of you, when I met The Wayves, a rock band.

Dan Barkin:I spent Wednesday watching the future of journalism. I think.

Dan Barkin:In the Shameless Self-Promotion Department, I have started a blog on newsobserver.com that will run through my daughter's June wedding.

Dan Barkin:The N&O has produced a series on global warming that does a pretty good job of revealing the local impacts of a cosmic issue. The problem with getting your hands around climate change is trying to understand how it affects us now, where we live. The

Dan Barkin:The Web 1.0 didn't work out so well for Anton Zuiker. No surprise there. The crash of the dot-coms at the end of the past decade took down a lot of companies, including the startup where Zuiker was working.

Dan Barkin:I have always had a soft spot for the politicians at the level of government closest to us, the town council members, the school board members, the county commissioners. Maybe it's because my dad was a member of my hometown's Board of Aldermen.

Dan Barkin:The audit of Wake County schools' curriculum was posted to the district's Web site about 3 p.m. Tuesday. It was more than 400 pages.

Dan Barkin:We've started a food forum at share.triangle.com/forum/food. It's an online destination where people can share recipes, buzz about new restaurants and the like.

Dan Barkin:Ed Rose is 68 and retired, sort of. He is retired in that he no longer goes to work at accounting giant KPMG, where he was in charge of the auditing side of the business and a partner in the company's Cleveland office. After spending most of his life