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Category: Change

  • Internet safety – The Genie is out of the bottle

    I missed this the first time it went around, but Pogue makes a very good point about how we as concerned adults should be watching out for the other kids that our children may be interacting with rather than the predators that might lurk in the ether : As my own children approach middle school, my own…

  • Interweb is Gender Shifting

    It looks like the ‘net is starting to shift its balance to being more female heavy as opposed to male heavy in terms of users. This according to a PEW study that is also discussed here on the Times Online, giving it a bit of a British bend. The back end of the web continues…

  • The growing firewall of …

    Some might say Islam, but I’m thinking ignorance. Pakistan is now blocking Youtube (GN) because of anti-Islamic content. I hear all the cries out there right now… how dare they! These totalitarian regimes need to be stopped! Well, guess what, it’s not the Chinese or the Islamic governments who are alone in this. Schools in…

  • Peer respect or timeliness, which is bigger in reading?

    A Computerworld article claims that cell phones (well, participatory media) could be a savior for books, claiming that kids don’t like mass media because they are alienated from it’s production. Well, that might be the case, but I don’t think it has anything to do with a disconnect with production or valuing the work of…

  • exes can run on OSX?

    A few days ago, I was going to post on the ability to use Darwine to run IE on the Mac but then I got side tracked. Then this afternoon, I stumbled on this – Ars has found enough stuff in Leopard that Apple could have Windows apps running without Bootcamp. Part of me is…