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Monday, January 7th, 2008A high school gym teacher was charged with sending nude pictures of herself and sexually suggestive cell phone text messages to a 14-year-old freshman at the school. … Police said Chester, who is married, had sent a boy three pictures of herself, two of them naked, by cell phone on Dec. 22, and the boy [...]
Matching volunteers with your service opportunies
Saturday, January 5th, 2008Register with ChristianVolunteering.org and leverage TechMission’s technology infrastructure to empower would-be-volunteers to find you. Install the widget on your website and — “Eureka!” — the power of a first class back-end enhancing your web presence. Get great free widgets at Widgetbox!
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007My initial webcast video was pulled by YouTube for copyright reasons, so here’s another, about the impediments current copyright laws play on creativity. Lawrence Lessig is a Stanford Law Professor and the legal genius behind Creative Commons licensing and many other internet innovations. Prof. Lawrence Lessig at TED 11 8 credit loan problem payday8 payday [...]
Flickr Photo Fun
Friday, December 7th, 2007Flickr has a great feature that allows users to organize multiple sets of photos into collections. It’s especially helpful when one has to find a particular within a growing collection of almost 6,000. New Collections Family 36 sets Judah 13 sets New York, NY 9 sets Ministry 13 sets Generation Xcel 12 sets Travel 14 [...]
I can relate to the second half of this
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007I’ve never used a computer. I do all my writing on an ancient IBM Selectric. And I do my research in books. Once in a while I’ll hire a college student to pull something off the Internet, if I need an up-to-the-minute statistic or a Lexis/Nexis search or that sort of thing. But that’s as [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007A Vision of Today’s Students Courtesy: Digital Ethnography. Transcript, with fascinating comment thread, including this: I come from a country in which a majority of people earn less than 1 dollar a day and I say what are you complaining about. The reason you spend so much time in Facebook,or playing with your laptops is [...]
Facebook and Myspace: Crushing the competition … along class lines?
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007I came across two fascinating Facebook/Myspace articles today. As a student of both technology and youth culture, they are provocative taken seperately. But read together, they paint a troubling portrait. The first (via Rudy) projects that Facebook is ready to “crush” its social networking competitors, beginning with Myspace. … if there’s going to be a [...]
Think before you post
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Powerful PSAs on the dangers of social networking. HT: Ben at UYWI Blog. Related + From “Say Everything” (New York magazine) …we’re living in frontier country right now. We can take guesses at the future, but it’s hard to gauge the effects of a drug while you’re still taking it. What happens when a person [...]
Hi-tech theivery
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007From UYWIBLOG.com: for some reason, we woke up this morning to find uywi.org domain completely empty as if thieves had broken in and stole everything. So for the time being, I will modify the blog to work for promoting the events we have coming up. to Pre-Register for UYWI07, RELOAD Albuquerque (4/14), or RELOAD Atlanta [...]
Virus help for … Macs?!?!?!?
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007I bought a Macbook (in part) because Macs are supposed to be immune from viruses. Yet this week, my Mac has been creating Word documents that Gmail keeps flagging as being infected with the W97M.Thus.A worm/virus. Any tips for how to resolve this issue?
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