Digital Culture Studies

Because I am far to interested in learning all the back of house stuff that Wordpress offers. Like right now, I am figuring out widgets!

That when we dig holes in our backyards, we end up coming out in the Indian Ocean. Is there ANYTHING that Google doesn’t do? I am pretty sure Google is going to start walking the dog and dusting under the bed for me. It pretty much does everything else in my life.

As a former Vancouver resident, I use the web to keep up with designers and artists back home. I am a fan of this guy’s work, and was not surprised to find other people are, too. However, some people take that fandom a little too far.

What is really fun though, is reading through these comments, especially those from other artists whose work was also stolen. Kids, the lesson here is, if you steal, the People Will Find You. And then, they will publically pants you.

But part of the issue, I think, goes back to the notion that design is supposed to all look the same. When we negate the power of creativity, we empower plagarism.

In September, I am working with a colleague to do some training regarding resonsibly managing one’s digital presence, and it has me thinking about the practical aspects of this.

How do other people manage their business online?

As a former tech worker, I can tell you that the most boring part of my job was being called to help the office staff when they had lost their new computer log ins and passwords. We were all required to change all of our passwords weekly, a security measure against …. nothing, as it turned out. When companies force employees to change their passwords so often, employees get frustrated, and security goes down, because one of two things happen - either they recycle the same two or three passwords, or, most likely, they write down their new passwords on Post-It notes, and stick those notes under their keyboard or their mousepad.

75% of the time, my awesome password recovery skills involved me flipping over the mousepad.

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In honour of getting my thesis bound today, ready to be turned in tomorrow - some links to keep us all organized!

Google Notebooks.

43Folders.

LifeHacker

And…it is never to early to get organized! Organized Christmas and Holiday Grand Plan!