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
Cisco product placement?
On 24 tonight, in the face of a fictional denial-of-service attack, the fictional cyberwhiz of the fictional intelligence agency notes that they're in good shape because "the Cisco network is self-defending."
Tag-friendly Feedster
Since Technorati does not yet provide RSS feeds on its tag pages, I've been looking for an alternate way of subscribing to RSS feeds for particular blog categories/tags (the way I subscribe to del.icio.us tag feeds). The happy discovery is that Feedster supports...
Read/Write Web: How To Subscribe To Topic Or Tag RSS feeds
A nice summary of different options for creating RSS feeds for searches you want to access on an ongoing basis. Includes pubsub and technorati, among others.
Contentious » Furl and Del.icio.us: Almost Perfect Together
This blog post outlines one workflow for using Furl and del.icio.us togther, treating Furl as a personal archive and del.icio.us as a way of sharing resources. It’s an interesting reflection of the strengths and limitations of each tool: Furl is certainly a better option for archiving and retrieval purposes, while del.icio.us is far more powerful as a social and collaborative tool. It’s also a reminder of why Spurl is uniquely valuable for its combination of archiving and sharing functions: by facilitating both personal archiving and social bookmarking via del.icio.us, it allows personal information management to be integrated with collaboration. This seems like a much more realistic way of making collaboration a natural part of workflow, since it makes sharing a byproduct of work effort rather than another item on the to-do list.
Garrick Van Buren .com » Technorati & Del.icio.us Tag Maker for MarsEdit
This AppleScript lets you link any text selected on your computer to its corresponding Technorati or del.icio.us tag page.
South African Blogs
Africa is blogging, too. South Africa is leading the way, with more than 3 million unique users visiting South African blogs every month. High profile South African blogs include Commentary – which focuses on topics like race relations and economics – and Human vs. Nature, an earnest environmental issues weblog. The country […]
The Moderator’s HomePage
An extensive set of resources covering both the technologies and techniques of online faciliation and moderation. Many of these resources are quite dated, however.
A living experiment in online collaboration
The blogiverse is having fun with Just Letters, a little flash game that is a great living experiment in online collaboration. All you need is your browser, so go check it out!
Just Letters is an interesting window on how people can work together when the demands of collaboration are low enough, even if the apparent […]
Justice in a nutshell
My past research on hacktivism took me far enough into the hacker world to appreciate the difference between hackers and script kiddies. In a nutshell, real hackers are computer experts who use their impressive skills for peace, love and kindness, while script kiddies...
Stakeholder communications go online
Thanks to Kristan Boudreau of BC Hydro for pointing me to a paper by Carol Adams and Geoffrey Frost on “Stakeholder Engagement Strategies: Possibilities for the Internet.”(PDF) The authors undertook a comparative study of how companies in Australia, Germany and the UK use web sites as a tool for communicating with stakeholders, based on more […]