Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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OneZero
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...
Coding for deliberation
One of my favourite organizations working on dialogue and deliberation challenges is the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD). They've done a great job of building community among people doing civic engagement, dialogue and deliberation work, and...
In search of the perfect host
Rob and I seem to be in the market for a new web host. We've been delighted with our current hosts, Ace of Space, but as our site and domain empire expands, it's beginning to look like it would be economical for us to get a hosting package that allows unlimited...
You got your Treo in my custom RSS feed
I've been talking a lot about RSS on this site for some time now. And lately I've been talking about Treos too. Now you can have both great flavours in one thanks to this little demo of how the best sources of custom RSS feeds can help you find everything you want to...
JSTOR DAILY
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...
Coding for deliberation
One of my favourite organizations working on dialogue and deliberation challenges is the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD). They've done a great job of building community among people doing civic engagement, dialogue and deliberation work, and...
In search of the perfect host
Rob and I seem to be in the market for a new web host. We've been delighted with our current hosts, Ace of Space, but as our site and domain empire expands, it's beginning to look like it would be economical for us to get a hosting package that allows unlimited...
You got your Treo in my custom RSS feed
I've been talking a lot about RSS on this site for some time now. And lately I've been talking about Treos too. Now you can have both great flavours in one thanks to this little demo of how the best sources of custom RSS feeds can help you find everything you want to...
THE VERGE
Using Syncplicity and Dropbox to put Google Docs on your desktop
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...