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
Tag my desktop — please
And the tagging obsession continues. Thanks to Travis Smith for pointing me towards Larry Borsato’s comments on why we don’t tag our desktop. His post is a response to Kevin Briody’s call to tag your desktop. Kevin asks:
Why can’t we tag documents? And file shares? And intranet sites? Then tag communications: emails, Messenger contacts, […]
Tag my desktop — please
And the tagging obsession continues. Thanks to Travis Smith for pointing me towards Larry Borsato's comments on why we don't tag our desktop. His post is a response to Kevin Briody's call to tag your desktop. Kevin asks: Why can’t we tag documents? And file shares?...
The Blog Therapist is in
How can I integrate my new blog with this one? Can I run a WordPress blog on a Drupal site? What should I do when my husband's blog outranks mine on Technorati? These are the dilemmas that require the help of the.... On the strength of his winning answers to these...
Attention, listeners!
The folks over at Technorati have come up with a proposed XML standard, dubbed Attention.xml, aimed at ranking RSS feeds (like those generated by blogs) so that all us poor overwhelmed blog readers can make better, smarter, more efficient choices. Check out what it does with your own list of blog subscritions here.
E-democracy and egovernment tags – DoWire.Org
Steve Clift has set up a wiki page for e-democracy and e-government tags, following up on my call for a common tag taxonomy.
If you work in the e-democracy or e-government field, please visit this page to add any tags or keywords that you use for tracking bookmarks or blog posts in this area.
Tagging e-democracy
This week’s challenge: coming up with a common set of e-democracy tags for all of the e-democracy bloggers and bookmark collectors out there.
For those new to the tagging concept, here’s a brief intro: In the process of setting up Diablogue, I’ve been exploring the world of social bookmarking and tagging. Social bookmarking systems (like del.icio.us, […]
Drupal and Civic Space
I’ve been checking out Drupal, a web-based content management system that could provide an interesting platform for online engagement projects (especially those with a limited budget — Drupal is open source).
For those who don’t know Drupal, it describes itself as a “dynamic web site platform which allows an individual or community of users to publish, […]
Academic IP rights
Lawrence Lessig has drawn a line in the sands of intellectual property. He declares today that: I will not agree to publish in any academic journal that does not permit me the freedoms of at least a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. I couldn't be...
Today’s bookmarks
I'm trying a new tool that automatically adds my latest bookmarks to this blog via del.icio.us. (I'm user Alexandra Samuel.) I actually manage my bookmarks with Spurl, a terrific social bookmark system that integrates nicely with del.icio.us but has a more...
Pew Report on 2004 Campaign
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Alexandra Samuel on 2005-03-08 Pew Report on the Internet and Campaign 2004: The Pew Internet & American Life project released its report on the 2004 election campaign this week. Michael Cornfield's pithy summary reports helps...