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Entries from June 2007

The web is going silent - make some noise!

June 25th, 2007 · No Comments

The Copyright Royalty Board in the US, in their infinite greed and attempts to murder choice is increasing royalty rates so the web cast industry is shutting down on Tuesday, 26 June.
On Tuesday, thousands of webcasters will call on their millions of listeners to join the fight to save Internet radio and contact heir Congressional [...]

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Tags: Issues

Why tables for layout is stupid

June 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Wow - I’ve been finding a lot of good stuff in the past few days!
While trying to track down some objective information on why not to use tables for some clients of mine who are loathe to let go of them — I found this little gem of a web site that explains tables and [...]

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Tags: Script

Teenage affluenza

June 20th, 2007 · No Comments

This “mocumentary” from World Vision is moving, funny and really brings the point home!

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Tags: Uncategorized

Seems I’ve heard this song before…

June 20th, 2007 · No Comments

A year or so ago - the political parties were debating “how to keep our children safe” online.  At that time, there was talk of putting in filters at the ISP level and I’d thought that rational thinking had prevailed.
Then an election year happened and low and behold, 15 months later, I’m driving home from work and [...]

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Tags: Internet safety · Issues · Technologies

The digital natives are gonna be restless

June 12th, 2007 · No Comments

A recent report from the NPD group shows that just over the past two years, the starting age for using electronic devices has dropped from just a click over 8 years old to about 6 and a half years old.  Plus the ownership of personal digital media players, portable video games and digital cameras is on [...]

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Tags: Research · Technologies