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{ Monthly Archives } June 2008

Copyright for Canada

There’s been a lot of dis­cus­sion in the papers about the newly-tabled Bill on Cana­dian Copy­right; suf­fice to say there are lots of issues with it and it needs to be sent back and turned into some­thing that meets the needs of the cit­izens and res­id­ents of this coun­try. If you’re liv­ing in Canada, I’d […]

2008 06 19 Family
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Spreading the Word

I’m not the first per­son to notice the duplic­a­tion of posts, as people post what’s hap­pen­ing to Twit­ter and Face­book and Plurk, and blog about it if they feel like writ­ing some­thing a little longer. Which means that when you really want to keep up with what someone is up to, you sub­scribe to them […]

2008 06 12 General Comments (0)

Toddler Books

My daugh­ter is now two, and likes some dif­fer­ent books to the set I reviewed six months ago, although she still likes the Boyn­ton books and Mother, May I? by Grace Mac­car­one (I sus­pect because it has a pic­ture of a truck in it, and fea­tures a hug at the end). In no par­tic­u­lar order, we […]

2008 06 12 Books
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Girls and Trucks

My tod­dler daugh­ter loves trucks; she’ll glee­fully point them out on the street and in books until you’re sick of the word. So just before her birth­day, there was me in the toy store look­ing at truck-related toys for her (trucks, trains, cars, other assor­ted toy vehicles) try­ing to pick out some­thing that didn’t entirely […]

2008 06 09 Family Comments (10)

Managing Distractions

It’s all too easy to get sucked in to check­ing your Twit­ter and your Plurk and your Brightkite and your Face­book and whatever other ser­vices you use; in my case I can claim I need to know some­thing about how these things work for a pro­ject. In the­ory I’m mak­ing use­ful obser­va­tions of how people […]

2008 06 05 Technology Comments (0)

Communities and Circles

Someone asked me the other day whether blogs were com­munit­ies. This got me to think­ing about how we define com­munit­ies in the online space. And friends, and fol­low­ers, and how some social net­work­ing sites encour­age enlar­ging the social circle while oth­ers con­cen­trate on people you already know through other means. “Social circle” being extremely loosely […]

2008 06 04 General Comments (3)