How to Parent in a Digital World: Resources
Family Minecraft Policy (Google Docs version here)
Family Support Form Responses (copy this to your Google Drive so you can adapt it to your family’s needs. For help, see How to copy a Google Form)
iOS 12: Getting to Know Screen Time & Stronger Parental Controls (for iPhone/iPad)
The Complete Guide to Setting up Parental Controls in Windows
How to use Parental Controls in Windows 8
How to Use Parental Controls in OS X to Protect Your Kids
4 Ways to Set up Parental Controls on Your Home Network
Parental Control Tools That Cover Every Device In Your Home
How to raise a gay-friendly child
Jennifer Gerarda Brown has posted a great set of tips on how to raise a gay-friendly child on the Lessig blog. A nice e.g. of the strong respect for civil rights that fits well with Lessig-style cyberpolitics.
Conference on Social Capital & ICTs
The European Social Capital, Quality of Life & Information Society Technologies project (SOCQUIT) is holding a 2-day conference in Paris (!) this September. The conference will reviw the results of SOQUIT’s research into the impact of IT on social capital, which focuses particularly on work and employment, aging population, local initiatives and migrants. For […]
del.icio.us: from good to great
Beth Kanter checked out my post on del.icio.us taxonomies, and asked me to say more about why I choose to use del.icio.us in the first place. The big reason for sticking with del.icio.us is that it really puts the "social" in social bookmarking. Del.icio.us makes it...
Event tagging
Carolyn Minor, a librarian at the University of Winnipeg, has put out a call for help on event tagging. She’s noted the difficulties in setting up effective tagging for event blogs, which is something I struggled with myself in setting up the event blog for the 2005 Online Deliberation conference.
The main problem I ran […]
Tag blogging @ tagsonomy.com
As of today I'm moving some of my tag-related musings to You're It, a blog on tagging that includes such venerable folksonomists as Jon Lebkowsky, Clay Shirky and Dave Weinberger. Rob hopes that this new outlet means that I'll finally stop talking about tagging in...
Introduction for Alexandra Samuel
I’m Alexandra Samuel. I run Dialogue Networks, a consulting practice that specializes in online dialogue and public engagement. This work has spurred my tagging explorations in a few ways. It began as a practical challenge of managing bookmaks across multiple machines and platforms. But it didn’t take long to jump from personal value to […]
BC Goes DC
The BC Citizens’ Assembly is taking its experience on the road. The New America Foundation is hosting a discussion next week titled Can the U.S. Take Lessons from a Canadian Experiment in Democracy?. It will be held Tuesday, June 7 at 3:30 PM at the New America Foundation, 1630 Connecticut Ave, 7th Floor, Washington DC. […]
Furlitis?
A little mystery at Furl, when searching for tag-specific pages defined by multiple tags. The page http://furl.net/furled.jsp?topic=blog+canada includes one link. The page http://furl.net/furled.jsp?topic=canada+blog contains no links. Clearly, both pages should be...
What a difference 2 years makes
Today I spent some time looking around for server-side RSS aggregators that would give me more configuration options than I can get in Bloglines. In the course of my travels I came across this interesting snippet, dated March 4 2003: I looked at a couple of RSS...
e-Engagement Tools That Fit
Organizations have tremendous cultural variations that need to be considered when designing an e-engagement plan or selecting e-engagement tools. E-engagement will be most successful when it’s based on tools that fit with the way an organization approaches technology and with the way it approaches engagement. Since organizations may approach internal (employee) engagement differently […]