Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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OneZero
Tagging for Katrina
At the suggestion of Nancy White, I've just posted an introduction to tagging for people who are creating online resources for post-Katrina disaster recovery. It covers some suggestions for tag choice as well as overall tips on tagging. It's online at You're It.
Kudos to Fido
Within a few days of my post, Fido responded with a 100% perfect solution: The $50 GPRS Unlimited bundle was added to your account. It was possible to do so as we have not yet fully converted to our new Billing platform - thankfully. The usual condition is that...
Scratching at Fido’s door
29 days into my love affair with an unlocked Treo and I have discovered why it's nice not to be married to any one cell phone carrier. I made the leap into wireless, thinking that Fido's unlimited data plan offered a net; they've since pulled the plan, though existing...
Why have one home page when you can have ten?
Just discovered a very cool Firefox feature. If you have several web pages open in tabs, and then click Peferences/General in order to set your home page, Firefox gives you the option of setting your home page to "current pageS". So if you like to check your bank...
Speed feeding
Part of the plan with the telecentre.org ecosystem is to bring relevant content into telecentre.org sites using RSS. In the case of event sites -- like the Capetown site that is the very first telecentre event site to get up and running -- we'll use special tags...
Event blogging with Drupal
This is Information Society Week in Capetown, and one of the events taking place is the first telecentre.org workshop to use the new Drupal-based event platform that I've helped develop. The good folks at Bryght have set us up with a freelinking module that lets...
This is your brain in binary
As part of my ongoing quest to find a Mac counterpart to the Personal Brain (thanks to Jerry Michalski for ruining my life with his software demo) -- and as part of my re-evaluation of all my productivity apps in the wake of my Treo purchase -- I have been playing...
Movie Central digs me out from Six Feet Under
Today's online customer service award goes to Movie Central --- that's the (Western) Canadian equivalent of HBO. I emailed the address listed on their web site last Monday (August 8th), as follows: Subject: Six Feet Under season 5 hi, I've somehow missed Season 5 of...
JSTOR DAILY
Tagging for Katrina
At the suggestion of Nancy White, I've just posted an introduction to tagging for people who are creating online resources for post-Katrina disaster recovery. It covers some suggestions for tag choice as well as overall tips on tagging. It's online at You're It.
Kudos to Fido
Within a few days of my post, Fido responded with a 100% perfect solution: The $50 GPRS Unlimited bundle was added to your account. It was possible to do so as we have not yet fully converted to our new Billing platform - thankfully. The usual condition is that...
Scratching at Fido’s door
29 days into my love affair with an unlocked Treo and I have discovered why it's nice not to be married to any one cell phone carrier. I made the leap into wireless, thinking that Fido's unlimited data plan offered a net; they've since pulled the plan, though existing...
Why have one home page when you can have ten?
Just discovered a very cool Firefox feature. If you have several web pages open in tabs, and then click Peferences/General in order to set your home page, Firefox gives you the option of setting your home page to "current pageS". So if you like to check your bank...
Speed feeding
Part of the plan with the telecentre.org ecosystem is to bring relevant content into telecentre.org sites using RSS. In the case of event sites -- like the Capetown site that is the very first telecentre event site to get up and running -- we'll use special tags...
Event blogging with Drupal
This is Information Society Week in Capetown, and one of the events taking place is the first telecentre.org workshop to use the new Drupal-based event platform that I've helped develop. The good folks at Bryght have set us up with a freelinking module that lets...
This is your brain in binary
As part of my ongoing quest to find a Mac counterpart to the Personal Brain (thanks to Jerry Michalski for ruining my life with his software demo) -- and as part of my re-evaluation of all my productivity apps in the wake of my Treo purchase -- I have been playing...
Movie Central digs me out from Six Feet Under
Today's online customer service award goes to Movie Central --- that's the (Western) Canadian equivalent of HBO. I emailed the address listed on their web site last Monday (August 8th), as follows: Subject: Six Feet Under season 5 hi, I've somehow missed Season 5 of...
THE VERGE
How to cope with your life as a social media celebrity
I think that, in a way, we're all sort of acting like celebrities have to act, where you have personal persona and a public persona. You think about what you want to share with your fans. I know that's how a lot of people feel about using Twitter, where, by default,...
Calling all geeks: Are you ready for the GeekOff challenge?
Working as a person of the female persuasion in the world of tech, I mostly do pretty well being surrounded by a lot of guys a lot of the time. My Women's Studies degree may not have fully prepared me for my day-to-day life, but I've found that I enjoy the energy of...
What’s really hurting your relationships?
Today's paper has an article about how hard it is to preserve tight family relationships in a world where we have so many other relationships. It offered 10 signs your friendships might be hurting your family relationships: You can't get through a meal without having...
Call for Papers: Social Media in Higher Education
The Internet and Higher Education has issued a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on Social Media in Higher Education (PDF). The issue will be edited by Stefan Hrastinksi and Vanessa Dennen. In the call, the editors note: In this special issue, we would...