Lastly, your estimates on the number of women attending are interesting to me, as women hold 16-17% of all representative seats in the US Congress- Senate and House. (This was the figure prior to Rep. Giffords stepping down.)

Thanks, again!

In reference, to my blog entry, on ‘Walled Gardens’. I received this recommendation, from one of my usual sources of computer technical advice this week:

“Most companies who run these locked in [Adobe ID, Microsoft Store ID, etc] systems will allow, if you get angry enough at cust-serv, you to transfer titles between accounts.”

I love this idea, of needing ‘tech support’ to put your split-apart digital identities back together again. All the kings horses, and all the kings men, . . .

I probably needed a guide to the things going on. There was a powerful education push for the developing nations. But just as we have many ideas of what should go on in education, I guess ministries of education are pretty top down. The first ladies of several countries started an initiative that was then a part of the
GAID.org , and we carried the conversation from Davos to
the UN to Monterrey , Mexico. Talking about education and how it should be done is always complicated.

Thanks Danah for being there.

The equality you state is in fact an inequality. The potential consequences of sharing a facebook password over sharing a locker combination are complete different in severity — to claim equality merely shows a lack of understanding.

Oh, I don’t know. What if Danah’s friend had put the booze in Danah’s locker. Or somebody put a gun in there? There are plenty of evil consequences on both sharing types.

I would also suggest that sharing electronic space is less likely to result in disaster than sharing physical space – embarrassment, definitely, disaster? I certainly hope that kids find it easier to get hold of booze than, say, child porn images. Or guns, although I appreciate this may not hold in all jurisdictions.

But the better point is the parents’ influence in essentially desensitizing teens to the importance of a password and protecting their privacy. I like the idea of the piggy bank to help distinguish the need or appropriateness for a parent to have access to the account of a minor for who they’re responsible.

Maybe Facebook (and similar services) should add a “Delegate” access, similar to some email systems. For example, my assistant can schedule a meeting on my behalf, but people can see that she scheduled it. I could also grant access for her to send email on my behalf, but again, it would indicate, “Sent by: …..” So – a Social Networking post or photo that indicates “posted by: … the significant other…” would be an elevated level of “trust” without inappropriate exposure of privacy.

The market seems to have a decades-old demand to follow predefined associations? Could a player survive without going with what the people talk about? And, to what degree does the respective company support the development of other approaches? What regards that, one has to give Google great credit for powering many nonprofit projects for free or very little, in their early stages where they can’t afford much.

Would be a nice topic to further discuss.

Did anyone here ever suffer the embarrassment of authorising your ebooks, to two different Adobe ID’s?

I can’t believe, that I managed to do this. I searched all over my email inbox’s for something from Adobe, to say, I had an exist Adobe ID – and could find nothing. So I created one yesterday afternoon to authorise a new downloaded eBook. But it turns out now, that my existing collection of eBooks, which were on an older laptop system, were all authorised to a previous Adobe ID, which Adobe themselves had never emailed me about, to inform me that I had it!

Big hint – it’s one thing to shoot yourself in the foot for your own stuff – but I would hate to suffer the embarrassment, of telling an important client of mine, I had done this to his purchased eBook collection! People have so many different digital reader devices now, that chances are, if they already have an eBook or two, they already have an Adobe ID. It would surely make live easier though, if Adobe would generate the odd response email, to the purchaser, to remind them.

It’s really awesome how well connected are the ‘user-specific’ flash advertisments with google search and You Tube. I was shopping on line for a comb binding machine – a real nuts and bolts, physical piece of old world hardware – to bind my A4 reports. Then I visited one of my favourite YouTube channels this minute, and I noticed the flash advertisement in YouTube was selling me one of the same comb binding machines, I was shopping for on line, over the weekend. I guess, my major hang up at the moment, is the fact, that when I need to purchase a license for various items of software from Adobe, Microsoft etc, and what annoys me in a major way, is you have to track back and recall the Microsoft Store ID, or the Adobe ID – in order to take up where you left off, in buying your software online.

I have described briefly the ‘linking up’ that Google Inc., can do between its Google Images search, and the YouTube channels I watch, and the ads present for a vendor called Euro Office. It’s sort of the same thing with Microsoft Store. They want to keep you inside some kind of ‘walled garden’ all of the time. When I purchased a full license for a Microsoft ware, in 2010, I had to create some kind of Microsoft Store ID, which I had forgotten I had. The rule that Microsoft have, is that your Microsoft Store ID, ties up to you Windows Live login. It so happens that the e-mail service at my college, Limerick Institute of Technology, is hosted by Microsoft, in some kind of LIT student hotmail web client.

It followed, that when I purchased a full license for Microsoft wares – which had nothing at all to do with my university at Limerick in Ireland – and was purely for my own business usage, my Microsoft Store ID, I have now discovered is the same as my Limerick Institute of Technology student e-mail address! The worst thing about all of this effort by Adobe, Microsoft, Google and so on, to ‘lock you in’ to some walled garden online space, is that when you proceed to buy something like an eBook at some time in the future, and do not synchronise it up with your original eBook authorisation Adobe ID – then you can’t use two eBooks that you purchased at separate times, from the same book publisher, on the same computer system, because they are authorised to two different Adobe ID’s! This has happened to me recently also.

The Limerick Institute of Technology e-mail address for my Microsoft Store ID, is the typical example. After a couple of years, when move away from that institution and no longer have access to that Windows Live ID! ! ! It’s all very strange, very cloud-like, clever like, and not at all satisfactory in my humble opinion.

Zero tolerance policies exist, in theory at least, to force schools to deal even-handedly with any bullying. The problem is that they force schools to deal even-handedly with any bullying that is seen or reported. Bullies get very good at not getting caught. Their victims don’t control the time and place of the bullying. Few victims want to report an incident, drawing more attention to themselves from their attackers and also opening up about the nature of the bullying. The report is never confidential because the bully knows about it and knows what really happened.

I agree with Alexandra that the solution rests on changing ourselves. It isn’t about condemning bullying, although we should. What has to happen is showing our children, and their peers, that they are good and worthy individuals.