Comfortdoc on Squidoo

It is with great sadness that I have to report that the inspirational Dr. Randy Pausch has lost his battle with Cancer. He died on July 25, 2008.

Dr. Randy Pausch was one of our featured SuperHero Project Lenses, for his head-on, straight-forward, entertaining and motivational approach to facing the diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer. If you don’t know, he was the Professor who delivered the inspirational “The Last Lecture” that was turned into a number one best selling book.

I had a strong feeling that since his personal web page hadn’t been updated in nearly a month, that things were not going well. I had been checking for updates since making the SuperHero Lens.

I’ve updated all three lenses that I have for Dr. Randy Pausch to reflect the sad news. This includes the SquidWho lens on Randy Pausch for and the SquidLit lens on the Last Lecture the Book.

We have lost a great spirit and great teacher in the passing of Dr. Randy Pausch, but his legacy will live one.

My thoughts are with the family.

A new group was launched this week, the Squidoo Activists. The activists are much like the Giant Squids and the Squid Angels (except we don’t get cool mini graphics next to our names…yet)

The Squidoo Activists grew out of the Squidoo SuperHero Challenge brainstorm of Squidoo’s Non-profit Organizer Extraordinarie, Anne Reidy.

Many of the members were invited to participate as Squidoo Activists because of our participation in the SuperHero Challenge or because they have demonstrated an interest in promoting charity work on Squidoo.

The primary goal of the Squidoo Activists is to do even more for charities using Squidoo.

Visit the Squidoo Activists lens to learn more.

I was surprised to see that I currently have three lenses in the top four at the top of the SquidFlix, the Squidoo co-branding that allows you to critique, review and rate movies.

My top SquidFlix lenses are

1. Ever After - A Cinderella Story
2. Mamma Mia! The Movie
4. We love Disney’s Enchanted

Mamma Mia will be coming out on Friday. I can hardly wait.

Top of Non-Profit

I also happened to discover that my SuperHero lens on Amy Jaffe Barzach and the Boundless Playgrounds is the Number 1 in topic for Non-Profits.