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Thanks to Kent Newsome for pointing me to this article quoting a British neuroscientist:
Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned.
Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
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But they will [...]

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The Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) wants to carve out a Canadian identity online in the most Canadian of ways – by creating a tax:
Amid fears that Canada’s culture is being drowned in a sea of online video from around the world, federal regulators are looking at setting up a $100-million fund to support [...]

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You can always leave it to the newspapers to put a negative spin on news. Bad news always sells, I suppose.
We are having a couple of warm days, a brief respite from a very cold and snowy winter. And the local newpaper comes up with this headline:
Flood risk as heat wave blows in
I’ll happily risk [...]

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I have several different web sites, using several different web hosting services. My longest running host has been Premier Focus, a little local shop run by a friend. He is expensive – about $170 annually – but his service has been good.
A few months ago I set up a site for my friend using A [...]

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A friend noted that January had been my first blogless month in years, and he was certainly correct. Sometimes you get really busy and you just can’t find the time. Other times you realize that you don’t have anything important – or anything at all – to say. And a massive reshufflling of web hosts [...]

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