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
The technologies of citizenship
I had lunch today with Sanjay Khanna, a fellow Vancouverite who shares my interest in the social and political impact of information technology. We had a mind-blowing conversation that stimulated a whole bunch of new ideas about the relationship between technology and...
Blogging initiation rites
I guess I'm now a real blogger: I've had my first and second thrashings at the hands of fellow bloggers. My offending entry suggested that Condoleezza Rice be excommunicated from the (admittedly permeable) bounds of political science on the grounds of gross...
Impasse as opportunity: upcoming Vancouver workshop
The Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver is hosting a February workshop on "Impasse as Opportunity". The workshop addresses: Why are some conflicts seemingly impervious to resolution? When conflicts get stuck in repeating, negative patterns, what can be done?...
Discount dialogue
It's amazing what you can get online these days. Look what popped up when I googled "dialogue": I always heard talk is cheap.
How we work
My find of the day is web log that keeps track of comments and quotations by artists, writers, and other accomplished folk on their work habits and style. Makes for interesting reading.
Holiday drink recipe: the Consultini
Q: What's in a consultini? A: What do you think should be in a consultini?
43 Things
My new favourite web site is something called 43 Things, which I discovered through Nancy White's blog. You can't find out what 43 Things is if you don' t have an account, and you can't get an account without an invitation. No wonder I just HAD to get in. Happily...
Scottish Parliament site hacked
In the course of my online travels tonight, I discovered that part of the Scottish Parliament's web site had been hacked: HACKED BY DR_TROX BU SITE CEZA'YA MAHKUMDUR ... It's hardly a security crisis for the Parliament's webcasting functions to go offline for a little...
E-consultation gets official nod
New DO-Consult subscriber Katherine Beavis points out that e-consultation has now been enshrined in the Canadian government's official communications guidelines. The new (revised) Government of Canada communications policy was released today. One of the only changes...
The art and science of bookmarks
Like anyone whose work not only uses the Internet, but actually concerns the Internet itself, I am really dependent on bookmark management to keep track of my work and resources. As a Mac user I've recently returned to using URL Manager Pro, a client-side tool that...