Well this week, we saw things move one step closer toward the day that Google will complete it’s mission of “organizing the world’s information”. GoogleDNS has arrived and regardless if you think 8 is lucky (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 – I think it was luck that those addresses were free at all) or not, someone is…
TR has a story of an adult that got involved in bullying a child. I’m sure it’s not the first time that a parent has put their nose into a child’s affairs, but where as in the past it might have only been a parent being an accessory (which adult would be able to really…
Cox Communications has released it’s own survey (PDF) on teens and online safety in partnership with National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. It found that generally teens in the US are well connected with their own email address and cell phone and spend a substantial amount of time online via one device or another.…
Some interesting articles came across my screen this morning while I was working on some podcasts. The first was a story from RRW that Trent Reznor is kinda quitting Twitter along with other celebrities who are also jumping off the Social Networking bandwagon. The second was from the Times, on how Les sages have ripped…
I can only hope that while Harper is getting busy “naming 14 year old criminals” he remembers that there might be some role for the federal goverment (CRTC?) to suggest to the provinces that they might want to bring in something similar to this within their existing provincial curriculums – the cynic in me thinks……