This post is months late. It’s a status similar to that of the cleaning of my overfull and under-organized shoe bin. But for those of you who are getting to the spring cleaning now, this may be of interest. Yardsellr is an app that allows you to skip the yard sale in the sweltering late March heat. (Yes, it is 90 degrees today.) It takes the whole experience and makes it virtual, integrated into Facebook.

This is a snippet from the FAQ:

Logging into Yardsellr happens through your Facebook account because Facebook is a quick and easy way to get your items seen by your friends and other Yardsellr users. You can invite all of your friends to your Yardsale event and ask them to promote your event as well. When your friends promote your Yardsale for you, even more people see the stuff you’re selling. If your friends are nice enough to promote your Yardsale for you and they sell on Yardsellr as well, be sure and return the favor.

The system is based on sharing information and the nugget of wisdom that made Mark Zuckerberg the celebrity he is today — friends trust their friends and thus are more likely to act on information they receive from their friends than from strangers. Friends work for each of us as a filter. They play a part in determining what we see, what we consider and, of course, even what we buy. Enter Yardsellr, 100% dependent on that notion. The company was founded by Danny Leffel, formerly of eBay, to take online selling to the next level. There is no cost to buying or selling, just for additional and optional social marketing.

Yardsellr has entered the Tucson market and is looking to expand. Check it out if you had a yard sale in mind but think lemonade might not be enough to beat the heat. Also check it out if you are particularly into Elvis, Hello Kitty or Star Wars. These products are specialties. Or is that just what they predict I’ll buy?

Many creative professionals these days work from home. There is a wonderful freedom that comes with that — pajama wearing, dog walks anytime you hit a metaphorical wall — but there are downsides, too.

Isolation ranks high on the list of cons for many creative people I know. We all need a little action. As someone who transitioned from working in a rowdy newsroom to a dark and quiet home office, I can relate. At a certain point, I started singing to the dogs. Regularly. Then I knew things had to change.

If the situation sounds familiar, here are a couple of  ideas.

Spoke6 is a co-working outfit located at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Sixth Street. For $150 a month, you can use a desk, a storage locker, bathrooms, showers, a kitchen, a conference room. There is a $20 day-pass option, as well.

The space is the brainchild of Tim Bowen of the web design firm Creative Slice. He, as well as other cool and creative Tucsonans work there, including Jamie Manser of Zocalo Tucson Magazine. Groups such as innovative app-makers  OpenTucson and web designers  Tucson WordPress Meetup use the space.

Gangplank is a Chandler-based co-working alternative looking to expand to Tucson. They espouse a non-profit, drop-in-for-free model and are currently looking for Tucson businesses or nonprofits with whom to work out a partnership deal.

Congratulations to the “How Tucson Are You?” Facebook contest winners! Shawn Barghout won a $100 gift certificate to Antigone Books, and Matthew Helmke won a signed copy of “Meteorite Hunting: How to Find Treasure from Space.” A big thanks to everyone who took the quiz and shared it with their friends.

Now, for the answers. If you took the quiz and have been wondering for weeks what it was you missed, here you go.

Q: Who did the University of Arizona beat to win the 1997 basketball championship?
A: Kentucky

Q: Who or what is Stone Avenue named for?
A: Col. John F. Stone

Q: What year did Hughes break ground on its Tucson missile plant?
A: 1951

Q: Which Beatle owned a house in the foothills of the Rincon Mountains?
A: Paul McCartney

Q: Where was John Dillinger arrested?
A: a house on Second Street

So, how Tucson are you? Do you have an alternative measure?

That’s after Baton Rouge, Boise, Wichita, Sioux Falls and Cheyenne. But not that far behind New York City, No. 53 on Men’s Health list of the U.S.’s top 100 socially networked cities.

The list has some surprises. Washington, D.C. tops it. Who knew the Capitol would beat out Silicon Valley? And the rest of the top 10: Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, Orlando, Austin, Boston, Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City??

Are you wondering how exactly Men’s Health came up with this list? Here’s the methodology, as reported by Mashable:

First, Men’s Health figured out each city’s LinkedIn and Facebook users per capita, and then tapped the NetProspex marketing database to figure out each location’s amount of overall Twitter usage.

What do you think? Does Tucson deserve its rather dismal ranking?

The TucsonCitizen.com presence is expanding. Check us out now on Foursquare, as well as Instagram. This weekend we’ll be posting photos of life in the Tucson Festival of Books booth on Instagram, tweeting the day’s activities using the hashtag #tcbooks and checking in from the various festival workshops. Check in with us to get the inside scoop on one of Tucson’s great events. We hope to see you there. (In you miss us, check the site at the end of the day for a Storify recap of the festival of books as told by Tucsonans using social media.)

To find out the answer to that eternal question, go to TucsonCitizen.com’s Facebook page. Take our quiz, and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a $100 gift certificate to Antigone Books. Second prize is a book by TucsonCitizen.com’s Logical Lizard blogger Geoff Notkin, who is also a star of the Science Channel show “Meteorite Men.” Notkin has generously donated a signed copy of “Meteorite Hunting: How to Find Treasure From Space.” as well as an exclusive “Meteorite Men” badge and a promotional photograph signed by both Notkin and his expedition partner and co-star Steve Arnold. He’ll also be at our Tucson Festival of Books booth with a spectacular array of meteorites.

While you’re at it, go ahead and push that “Like” button at the top of the Facebook page. In return, you’ll get a steady stream of Tucson news and commentary and notice of our upcoming contests and giveaways. You’ll also be part of Tucson’s largest network of citizen journalists, a community that cares about reading and writing and the state of the world, more specifically, the state of Tucson, our home and very likely yours too. While you’re still at it, give Antigone Books some Facebook like love, as well.

One other thing: You may think that you have already “liked” TucsonCitizen.com’s Facebook page by hitting the button that up until recently was located on the left side of our pages. While a push of that button did indicate to others that you liked what you were reading, it did not add you to the people who receive news from TucsonCitizen.com in their news feed. A like on the top of our Facebook page would do that, as would a click on the like button in the Facebook box now on the right side of our home page. We would love for you to do that, as we would love to hear what you think. What good is a one-way conversation?

So tell us what you think. In the process, you might even win a prize.