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pre-teens glow mobile

The Guardian Online reports that more pre-teens are getting mobile phones. “In 2001, 13% of primary school children had a phone but that number had increased to 25% by the start of this year.” – Guardian Online The phones are being hailed as a great...

playin’ the war game – part one

The game you play is the war you win. And when 2.5 million people download a game that pushes your agenda, you know you’re winning. America’s Army is a hugely popular military MMORPG offered free to gamers. It’s getting good reviews and the game creators are very...

happy let’s not destroy our habitat day

It was with mild surprise that I realized that today is Earth Day. If you know it’s Earth Day today, then you’re probably already environmentally aware and doing what you can to keep us on this planet. I never liked the term Earth Day. While we are doing a...

linking to the linked out

“Many early adopter bloggers are engaging in critical debates about the challenges ahead. Namely, whether blogging is really that wild frontier of digital democracy they had imagined or if it is merely an echo chamber of privileged and increasingly commercial...

the f-word

This world is not set up for freelancers. Banks laugh at you when you tell them that you work for yourself at home. Potential landlords wince when you mention that you’ll be paying their mortgage by creating your own work each month. Even the utilities...