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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]