The 9-year-old Website Developers

November 3, 2010
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As long as you don’t mind a website that looks like it was developed by 9-year-olds, then go for it. Kids have an amazing capacity to learn whatever they put their mind to it. While they don’t have all of the discipline and experience to do what a professional website designer can put together, they [...]

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Are Gadgets Making Us Rude?

November 2, 2010

The Today Show featured one of my favorite bloggers, Amy Alkon, talking about the trend towards more rudeness, especially with respect to us keeping our noses buried in our devices or yammering on cell phones. Watch the video at Amy’s site. People are losing awareness of what’s going on around them. They are living in [...]

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Effects of Social Networks and an Unfortunate Proximity of Headlines

October 31, 2010
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When I opened up my feed reader, and scanned the headlines, I was presented with two headlines posted only minutes apart. Social Networks Are Not Killing Our Social Lives next to… “FarmVille” Interruption Cited in Baby’s Murder Ouch! Just… Ouch… Social networks can’t be blamed for the murder of that poor baby. The woman is [...]

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What we Know About Candy from Strangers on Halloween

October 30, 2010

It causes cavities. It makes kids hyper. It does not kill them. Learn all about how parents have ruined Halloween and how marketeers are managed to make a lot of money promoting fear to parents. I don’t think there are any signs that this is going to stop any time soon.

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How Must Trust Do You Put In Technology?

October 5, 2010

This past weekend, a GPS led a driver into a reservoir. Not the first time people put total trust into a gadget and turning off their own senses. More examples here, here, here, and here, for starters. Would these problems have occurred had they not used a navigation system? Do you think that people become [...]

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Now Fido can Bark and Tweet

October 3, 2010

You’ve been spending hours updating your online statuses and reading over the inane announcements of your 435 “friends” activities on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Did you notice that you’ve been ignoring the pooch that lays there with no sticks to fetch and nobody to rub her belly. Well, you could get off of the computer and [...]

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Texting While Driving: Bans Making It Worse?

September 28, 2010

Thirty states ban texting while driving, and results in no reduction in accidents. In three out of four of the states where studies were done to determine the laws effects, the number of crashes increased. Could it be that the law isn’t deterring people because it’s generally a difficult law to enforce? Having phone records [...]

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Cyberbullying Worse Than Face-to-Face Bullying

September 22, 2010

Sticks and stones my break your bones, but names will never hurt you. Ya… well, tell that to the kid who has a few dozen kids spreading lies and saying terrible things about him online, in public, where all of his 306 Facebook friends can read it. Unlike traditional bullying which usually involves a face-to-face [...]

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“The affair’s going to happen anyway…”

July 15, 2010

…but Facebook “makes it much easier.” Facebook isn’t to blame for divorces any more than guns are to blame for people being murdered. But if you give somebody a tool when they have intent to commit the act anyways, then the tool becomes an important part of the story. Facebook does facilitate affairs. I know [...]

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OpenDNS Complements ComputerTime’s Protection

July 10, 2010

The Best Web Filter Is… We’re used to saying that the best web filter is the watchful eye of a parent. We believed that to be true, and that is why we didn’t tackle web filtering in ComputerTime. A number of filtering solutions already existed when we created ComputerTime, and none of them seemed to [...]

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