Opinion Facebook Etiquette: Birthday Greetings Google’s Personal Birthday Doodle, linked to the date and significant occasions related to it) Yesterday was my birthday. (There –…
Opinion The Israeli Conflict: Having My Say Loosely translated, this means “The People of Israel Live” So, lately, I’ve been called “angry.” I’ve been called “biased.”…
Social Media A Quick Lesson on Privacy Taking time out of my hockey, politics and personal postings for a public service announcement – emphasis on the word…
Personal Blog Too soon? All day on Facebook, I have seen a now-viral image of “Gilligan’s Island” photoshopped with the Malaysian airliner that has…
Social Media Critical Thinking **While this entry deals mostly with Facebook, the scams date back, many of them, to email hoaxes which still make…
Cyberbullying Class and Maturity – Is Civil Discourse Dead? On Twitter, It Looks That Way Twitter can be an insidious cesspool of all sorts of characters. There are those who attack others for their views,…
Cyberbullying The Business of Unfriending Foreword – actually written after this blog entry but posted here on top: I can see this is the first…
Opinion Ticking off the masses In the past couple of weeks, I noticed – as I’m sure so many of you have – the cartoon…
Personal Blog Proving the Thrust of Social Computing In the course syllabus, and description, Johannes describes the computer as “places and spaces”…and while I totally agreed with that…
Personal Blog Theory into Practice… Well, I experienced what has to be the epitome of this course’s title…social computing at its best. Back to the…