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Modern Mix Tape: Day 3 – My Ultimate Party Mix
When I was a teenager I made mixed tapes. I had them numbered and categorized and people would often have me copy my mixed tapes for them. 30+ years later I find playlists are the new mixtapes. So each day for the next 5 days I am going to post one of my favourite...
Modern Mix Tape: Day 2 – Deep House Mix
When I was a teenager I made mixed tapes. I had them numbered and categorized and people would often have me copy my mixed tapes for them. 30+ years later I find playlists are the new mixtapes. So each day for the next 5 days I am going to post one of my favourite...
Modern Mix Tape: Day 1 – Christmas Music Mix
When I was a teenager I made mixed tapes. I had them numbered and categorized and people would often have me copy my mixed tapes for them. 30+ years later I find playlists are the new mixtapes. So each day for the next 5 days I am going to post one of my favourite...
Into the mind of a 14 year old … (my daughter Zoe)
The other night I was helping my daughter Zoe with something on her iPhone. I have to be honest when she passed me her phone and I looked at her home screen I was floored. It is a little hard to describe so below is a screen shot of her phone (all of this with her...
Instagram’s Newest Feature Is Incredibly Important
Social media is getting more and more isolating. Really excited to see this sort of positive engagement by a social media company. (Thanks Jeff Smyth for sending it) We use Instagram to share photos of the beauty around us, the delicious meals we've eaten or created,...
And everyone saw it.
Really great article on Sexting. Something all parents (and students) should read. This is a prevention conversation not something you want to start dealing with after it has happened. I am getting emails or phone calls 2-3 times a month from people struggling with...
The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies
This is a really interesting short clip. Love to hear peoples thoughts. To pass the Bechdel test for women in movies: 1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it 2. Who talk to each other 3. About something besides a man...
Are we using Christian social media wrong? | Rant video
I really liked this blog. Just because something is "Christian" does not mean it is good, or correct or should be shared. I might disagree with the term "Christian" Social media. I would rather say social media that is Christian but that is just semantics. I would...
Has our technology surpassed our human interactions?
The other week my parents took my family out for breakfast. I was watching my daughter and son talking to my father and my wife was talking to my mother. I looked around the restaurant for a second and what I saw was incredible. In the entire restaurant there was not...
Beyonce is Destroying Your Daughter, Not Empowering Her
We seem to have lost any internal critical reflection in our society. We seem to blindly accept everything without giving it a second thought. Some really great thoughts in this article on Beyonce and her new album. (note: lyrics are extremely sexual) But, as I said,...
