Just been trying a cool new social network that is done as a comic. You can use your own characters or pre-made characters to say your blog words or whatever. Love it! Bitstrips.com

I’m really disappointed that my Alma Mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has decided to continue banning video artist Wafaa Bilal’s show at the RPI arts dept. Giving various reasons, the administration, led by President Shirley Ann Jackson (whom I had hoped would be more progressive) has closed the show. It opened again at http://www.mediasanctuary.org/ but was [...]

I saw a youth video on the weekend at a conference and I was struck as we all applauded that while it was cool that they could use the videocamera and editing tools, it was clear that the message was one of violence. Not intense, but more the “wanna-be gangster”…. We’ve been working with youth [...]

From a new report by Ipsos-Reid: “Contrary to popular belief, teens are not online as much as they are stereotyped to be, the time they do spend on the Internet is focused rather narrowly on particular types of websites and activities, and their comfort level with technology is actually much lower than adults. ” This is fascinating [...]

Listening to Brian Oberkirch and he asked an interesting question, how many social networks do you belong to. I naturally thought of one, the one I use the most, which is Facebook, but he mentioned a bunch more. I realized I have a Myspace, Last.fm, Linked In, Pandora, Upcoming, flickr, del.icio.us, twitter, this blog, as [...]

We’ve been using Drupal for two years now, and it has become the main CMS for our development work. Which is why it is interesting to read this article http://www.xconomy.com/2007/12/20/a-big-drop-in-the-bucket-for-drupal/  Basically, the company Acquia aims to be to Drupal what Redhat is to Linux, which to me is a professionalization of the Drupal product. I [...]