There have surely been more convoluted and lengthy marriage proposal efforts conducted by the human species than this. But rarely, if ever, have they occurred in (pseudo) real-time. More specifically, occurred for all the world to watch and to contemplate the chance at success when the proverbial knee drops to the ground.

To tell it short, a journey, conducted by a Mr Chris Wilbe, began a couple of days ago, September 18, to be precise, and he’s taking along a girl named “Jeanne” to be engaged - preferably to him. And their travels, supposedly ending in early October, are all being documented at Jeannesays.com. And she’s said to be the only one not in on the secret. Gripped, are you? As are we.

The itinerary is fairly well detailed. So much so that readers might well stumble while the  play is in progress? Who knows. Probably not. The route, in several words or more, goes from Nashua, New Hampshire up to Maine’s famous Portland Head Light, and meets a castle, a garden, a cove, and a lighthouse along the way.

If you’re curious to know whether this is a serious undertaking, or some sly promotion of one kind or another, it seems safe to call it authentic. There’s a flower fund to which followers can contribute, open until October 2nd, which happens to sit at an idle $50. And I for one cannot decipher any secret mysteries in the progress the two adventurers have made that would spoil the promise made. The website itself is just the right amount of simple, too.

All said, Chris is looking to make Jeanne as Internet famous as possible before ring meets finger. There’s an RSS button to press, a Digg icon to click and room for comments aplenty. How’s that for a social media/networking experiment? Mashable leader Pete Cashmore spent part of the week celebrating his birthday pushing a charity effort that proved immensely successful as a result of some little thing called Twitter. Now here we are, with Chris and Jeanne. The second half of September is looking rather swell, don’t you think? (Besides the financial havoc, that is.)

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The world won’t end for at least two months, so here are some questions to consider. Does the tenor of today’s political advertisements appeal to you - at least in a comical sense? And does your frustration over New Facebook continue to linger as the network’s creators complete the shift? Old Facebook and the Facebook First complex know how you feel. And they’re talking the issue up, partisan style.

They’ve gone to YouTube with their 27-second position, and like many of the presidential campaign ads of today, Old Facebook is high on hubris in its video clip. But the humor effect is there all the same. Anything longer wouldn’t quite do, anyhow. For what it’s worth, a Mashable gets citation shown midway through.

But wait! Just three days after the Facebook First attack, New Facebook and the Change for Facebook movement presented their rebuttal. Shorter by a hair, New Facebook rehashes the madness that came before, with topics like Beacon, inbox application notices gone awry, and the termination of Scrabulous getting some screen time. (That last one isn’t quite Facebook’s doing, but what’s a little deceptive marketing now and again?)

There’s no telling whether New Facebook and its compatriots in the Change for Facebook campaign will have the last word on the matter, but entertaining this two-part minute-long episode certainly is. For whom do you raise your posterboard-on-a-stick? Props to Brian Retchless and Wooden Nickel Shorts for making these spots happen.

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There’s a social network for just about everything these days, so it’s no surprise that there are some for families now. Glubble is a family social network that focuses on the safety of your children. When you sign up with Glubble you create a separate social network from all the other members who have family networks there. Only your family members will have access to it and that access must be granted by the main parent who created the family site on Glubble.

For the adults using the family Glubble page it will be displayed like any other web page in the browser but once you switch it into kids mode by clicking on the Glubble Lock icon in the browser toolbar, the browser will automatically switch to full screen kiosk mode. In this mode the children will not be able to access any other part of the computer.

Additionally the Glubble team have set it up so that even things like Google search results are intercepted and filtered based on parent created lists of what is allowed and what isn’t. To change back to the adult display it is a simple matter of clicking once again on the lock icon and supplying your password.

They have also done well to make it a fun place to hang out for parents and children alike. Children can easily keep their parents up to date with the events in their lives that the parents need to know about. Because of the flexibility, parents can feel included without appearing to be over controlling everything their children are doing while on the Internet.

Besides the message wall which is like your family’s own private Twitter, there’s also the Family Album for sharing pictures and the Glubble Liibrary which has plenty of games and activities. The search engine is totally kid-friendly and the bookmarking feature is easy to use and gives parents control over which sites their kids can not only visit but save as well.

All in all I think Glubble has done a good job and as a parent of three I’m interested to see how it will work out for us. It seems to be a nice way to keep an eye on what your children are doing on the web without ruining their fun.

Note: Thanks to Steven Hodson who contributed to this piece.

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