Archive for category: Digital World

Advertisers’ cookie crumb trails on your Facebook page: Is resistance futile?

Advertisers’ cookie crumb trails on your Facebook page: Is resistance futile?

0 / January 27, 2012 7:00 am

Have you ever wondered how ads that seem to be made just for you pop up on Facebook, Google and just about every other site you go to? It’s called “behavioral advertising” and it’s rather cleaver and sneaky at the [...]

Facebook’s New Timeline: Sleek Exterior with Oversharing Interior

Facebook’s New Timeline: Sleek Exterior with Oversharing Interior

0 / January 24, 2012 6:37 pm

By now you’ve heard the news. Like it or not, the new Facebook Timeline is coming to a Facebook profile near you. In otherwords, yours, mine and all of our closest, and not so closest, friends. Not wanting the change [...]

Tweet Seats coming to a theatre near you

0 / January 9, 2012 7:27 pm

Tweet Seats. A hard-to-believe it exists new trend that is so surreal you want to pinch yourself to be sure you’re not asleep and dreaming.

Happy Unplugged Holidays

0 / December 23, 2011 9:41 am

The best part of the flurry of the holidays preparations we’re all about to experience  is the excitement of the celebrating the holidays with friends and family. And, then, hopefully, benign able to steel a few days of R&R unplugged [...]

In 2012, you have a choice: worry about your child’s health or empower your child to be healthy

0 / December 21, 2011 8:00 am

No doubt we live in worry filled times. From the stock market to our kids, there’s no shortage of issues we can come up with to angst over in any given day. Interestingly, our collective concerns over our children and [...]

FOSI 2010 Panel Online Safety and Behavior

FOSI 2010 Panel Online Safety and Behavior

0 / December 20, 2011 8:19 pm

Low Tech Resolutions In a High Tech World

3 / December 13, 2011 6:25 pm

Happy almost New Year! Have you made any resolutions this year? How about your kids? My daughters used to call them “revolutions” when they were younger and there are years I feel that my list falls into that category!

NTSB Call to Arms: No call, no text, no update

1 / December 13, 2011 6:04 pm

Today the NTSB formally recommended a nationwide ban on texting while driving. Given the statistics cited in their press release, and the amount of near misses we’ve all experienced, this almost seems a day late. The prompt for this national [...]

Steve Jobs: His Impact Is Not Just Technological

Steve Jobs: His Impact Is Not Just Technological

0 / October 6, 2011 6:40 pm

How many Apple devices do you own? At the moment, we own 10 among the 4 of us between MacBooks, iPods, iPhones, an Airport Express and an iPad. At any given point during our waking, one of us is using [...]

Kick Off CyberSecurity Awareness Month by Being More Cyber-Aware

Kick Off CyberSecurity Awareness Month by Being More Cyber-Aware

0 / October 4, 2011 8:00 am

I love the theme of this year’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month: “Our Shared Responsibility” That truly hits the nail on the head with the best way to approach not only our safety and security online, but our developing kids [...]