We’re back after a short hiatus while moving house, returning to work from paternity leave, and working on a few other projects took the focus away from keeping Design Meme updated. Now that things have settled down a bit, the site should see more regular updates once again.
(more…)Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day, and like I said yesterday I’m very angry about what happened to Kathy Sierra, and other people who have suffered abuse from Cyber Bullies, stalkers, and trolls. Rather than just write further about how awful cyberbullies are, I’ve decided to offer some tips for helping people fight back.
(more…)For the past few days, thousands of blogs have focused on the topic of cyberbullying. This comes in the wake of Kathy Sierra cancelling her presentations at the ETech conference and withdrawing from posting on her popular blog due to threats of violence and offensive sexual statements and images posted by bloggers. I feel angered and disgusted by this, and similar patterns of behaviour that I’ve seen and heard about over the past few years.
This Friday May 30th is Stop Cyberbullying Day, and everyone is encouraged to think about ways to address this problem. Whether it’s the incredibly offensive and misogynistic comments many female bloggers receive, high-school students harassed with taunting text messages, or fake websites set up to try and slander innocent people—this is a problem that needs to be addressed.
You can now order web design gear from the Design Meme store. Current items include a head tag hat, a body tag shirt, a strong cup of coffee, and a bib to help your fussy eater subscribe to feed.
All products are 100% guaranteed to make you a better web designer… or at least look like one. 
When we’ve not been busy watching the kids, I’ve been helping Catherine redesign her blog at CatCanCook.Com. It’s a lot more colourful now and we’re really happy with the changes.
Her Awesome Banana Muffin Recipe has been really popular, so she decided to post her Awesome Carrot Cake Recipe as well!
If you’re looking for recipes, craft ideas, or resources for parenting, be sure to add Catherine’s Blog to your bookmarks.
I thought it an interesting coincidence that yesterday, Bob Rae mentioned Wikipedia during his keynote speech. Earlier that morning I had mentioned Wikipedia and politicians during my own presentation, so I decided to ask Bob about updating his own entry.
In an even more interesting coincidence, today’s keynote covered virtually the same topics I had been talking about yesterday – although admittedly with a bit more detail and eloquence.
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