tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80463719944892864612024-02-07T05:04:01.201-08:00Wheel an' come again: sociotechnical musings with my publicRhonda McEwen writes about her readings and thoughts, and with luck draws you into a conversation about living life in new media.Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-4698215149922299842012-11-12T16:51:00.000-08:002012-11-12T17:56:06.221-08:00project touch technologies @ Beverley Schoolcongratulations to Alana Grossman (Principal of Beverley School), Stacie Carroll and Sabrina Morey who today received the Prime Minister's award for excellence in teaching based on their work in the Touch Technologies in the Classroom project.
here they are receiving the certificates from Olivia Chow, MP for Ward 10 in Toronto. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />on oct 22nd, 2012 i guest blogged about my involvement as researcher in the project on the school's blog called iPad Education and i highly recommend that you check out their <a href="http://ipadeducation.blogspot.ca/">blog </a>for more information and insight on the work that is being done at this school. <br />
<br />60 Minutes (USA) and 60 Minutes Australia both ran feature documentaries on the project and the condensed versions of the broadcasts can be found here<br />
<br />60 Minutes US: <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7414970n&tag=segementExtraScroller;housing">Video 1</a> and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385702n&tag=segementExtraScroller;housing">Video 2</a> <br />
<br />60 Minutes Aussie <a href="http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8550313">Video </a><br />
<br />finally, the Toronto Star featured a story today (Nov 11, 2011)on the project as part of their series on Autism and you may read that <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1286058--ipads-speak-for-non-verbal-autistic-kids">here </a><br />
<br />it has been a highlight of my academic career so far to have designed this project and worked with such amazing children and teachers.<br />
best as always,
R.Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-79128778107665987562012-10-19T15:23:00.001-07:002012-10-19T15:41:47.930-07:00spaces are spaces wherever we are<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>my thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Amanda and all others whose lives are affected by bullying </i>
<p>the tragic end for Amanda Todd has reignited a look at the roles that online media – and social media in particular – play in personal interactions. while the social web has offered the users of all ages opportunities for finding communities of like-minded people, offering and receiving social support, and exploring identity we also know that there can be negative outcomes. the online world is another space (or set of spaces) and like any other type of space it can be used in a wide variety of ways. youth social interactions are not much different online as they are in the physical world. there is entertainment, play, thoughtfulness, and genuine friendship, but there is also subversion, anger, insecurity, and spitefulness. the dominant social narrative is that the latter types of behaviours are more prevalent, yet the evidence from research demonstrates consistently that these darker experiences are not the general case. sadly, it appears that when things go wrong they can go very wrong.</p>
<p>the reality is that there is a decline in the types of spaces that young people have available to them to try things out. malls, parks, street corners, etc. have become regulated spaces where they are scrutinized and asked to disband. increasingly urban cities are ‘youth unfriendly’ and even at the college and university levels our youth are shuttled from place to place, or tethered by their mobile phones. the online space becomes a place of…freedom, and while it is true that with freedom comes responsibility this is something that must be learned, not just in the classroom, or in the home via lectures but by living it - making mistakes and making corrections.</p>
<p>history is likely to look back at our millennial generation (currently 18-33 years old) as the group that had to learn how to navigate the digital world with little guidance. while parents remain the gatekeepers in the home, Pew Internet and American Life data from 2011 found that 41% of parents had no conversations or controls in place for online use in the home – and this is self-reported data so it is likely that this number is higher (see <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Teens.aspx?typeFilter=5">Pew Internet</a>). we do not have research data in Canada to compare this to but we can guess that it is similar from anecdotal information and smaller case studies. as we as a broader society struggle to figure out the social norms and rules for social interaction via new media, experts in child and youth developments suggest that there are early steps that we can take in the home.</p>
<p>From these experts come the following suggestions:
<br /> 1. try to find your what information about your children is online (search for their names/nicknames on a browser).
<br /> 2. go on online trips with your millennial (or younger) children on topics of common interest. working together you can model appropriate online information practices.
<br /> 3. talk to your teens about things that are bothering them – on and offline. Encourage them to talk to their peers and to speak out if there is something that they have seen or experienced that makes them uncomfortable.
<br /> 4. seek professional help if you feel overwhelmed or don’t know how to start the conversation about safety online. talk to the councilors in your local school or to your family doctor for resources in your area.</p>
<p>l8r 4 now,
R.</p>
<p>See the following helpful links for more information
<br /> <a href="http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/safetytips">http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/safetytips</a>
<br /> <a href="http://www.schoolfamily.com/school-family-articles/article/807-internet-safety-tips-for-parents">http://www.schoolfamily.com/school-family-articles/article/807-internet-safety-tips-for-parents</a>
<br /> <a href="http://www.cyberbullying.ca/">http://www.cyberbullying.ca/</a>
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<br /> image source: calgaryherald.com
Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-27047065786171545342012-01-10T09:03:00.000-08:002012-01-12T13:14:55.878-08:00mobile manners!frustrated by the person in the LIBRARY talking at full-tilt on their mobile phone? what about at family gatherings where you are trying to enjoy (yes i said enjoy) the company of your distant loved ones...except for you-know-who who is unable to tear himself and his thumbs away from his texting? and, ehem, are you sometimes that guy?<br /><br />today i joined matt galloway on toronto's metro morning show <br /><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2012/01/10/mobile-manners/">http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2012/01/10/mobile-manners/</a> and wei chen of ontario morning <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/ontariomorning/episodes/2012/01/10/mobile-manners/">http://www.cbc.ca/ontariomorning/episodes/2012/01/10/mobile-manners/</a>to discuss just that. <br /><br />i highlighted research done here in toronto that shows an embeddedness of mobile technologies in the way that we communicate. it is not that these devices are causing us to walk into street poles while texting, but it is an increasing desire to be constantly connected that these devices are satisfying.<br /><br />so what about manners and etiquette regarding mobile phones? rich ling and i wrote a paper about it that you can find on my website under publications. in it we discuss that what we do versus what we ought to to in a given social situation is considered relative to social norms. in the decision moment we rapidly compare our behavior to what others are doing in similar situations. the problem with mobile phone use is that the social norms are still emerging and often what we ought to do in a given moment depends on our interpretation of who is around and the value that we place on answering versus not answering. <br />http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif<br />in fact, it is a matter of prioritization - does the co-present person take precedent or does the person on the other end of that connection? what if the value is the same?<br /><br />in addition, we have expectations around response that muddy the waters. if your normal response time to your loved one is under 1 minute on a text message, if you take 10 minutes to respond this time will they worry? and the same thing goes for the workplace - in many places there an expectation to respond right away to a request for information, so what does it mean for you if you choose to wait?<br /><br />if you are intrigued by these questions, read the paper (Ling & McEwen, 2010). <a href="http://individual.utoronto.ca/rmcewen/publications.html">http://individual.utoronto.ca/rmcewen/publications.html</a><br /><br />l8r,<br />RRhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-48176059220497927662011-08-14T14:54:00.000-07:002011-08-15T07:06:40.819-07:00Deals + Friends = Social buyingsocial buying is when purchasing and social networks come together. companies like LivingSocial, BuyWithMe, and Groupon are tapping in to our deal seeking and social networks behaviors by combining them. i discussed this with Mary Ito from the CBC Radio program Fresh Air on Aug 14th - you can hear the audio here <a href="http://whttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifww.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2089722318">http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2089722318</a> - it runs for 9:57.
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<br />of interest is the combination of influencers used in these types of services: a) the coupon - a well established off-line technique to encourage purchasing by offering a deal to those that collect it; b) the time limit - eBay, Priceline.com, and others have capitalized on the ticking clock countdown tactic so that the user feels the need to act quickly to get in on the action; this adds a gaming quality to the coupon; and c) the social network - step right up but bring a friend (and the more the merrier) to get the deal since a minimum number of people have to agree to take the coupon or the deal goes away.
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<br />this triad (coupon + time limit + social network) is a killer combination for many people and the kinds of deals reflect the social nature of the service - restaurants, bars, and events that lend themselves most naturally to group participation are top of the lists.
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<br />is this a fad? no chance - it's here to stay. social buying appeals to information and social practices that are already well entrenched in modern living. Reijo Savolainen describes information practices as those involving information seeking, use and sharing. Social buying has all the hallmarks of an information practice - deals are sought, used, and shared. i would add that social media services like Groupon use new media technologies as platforms through which information practices are accelerated and can lead to practices on a global scale. as new technologies emerge some of these practices take on a new forms and have the potential to accelerate across networks.
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<br />chat l8r.
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<br />Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-65404846795339575352010-12-15T22:19:00.000-08:002010-12-15T22:34:01.551-08:00Tagore on death: In rememberance of Wayne Soon, rest in peaceIt is with a heavy heart but a hopeful spirit that I share a poem by one of my favorite poets - the great Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). 'Farewell' is one of 103-157 poems/songs in Tagore's Gitanjali or `song offerings'. <br /><br />I dedicate this post to Wayne Soon. Wayne was a student in my INF 1003 class at the University of Toronto this fall. He is remembered and celebrated by his colleagues and teachers as a top scholar. May he rest in peace. <br /><br />Farewell<br /><br />I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers!<br />I bow to you all and take my departure.<br />Here I give back the keys of my door<br />---and I give up all claims to my house.<br />I only ask for last kind words from you.<br />We were neighbors for long,<br />but I received more than I could give.<br />Now the day has dawned<br />and the lamp that lit my dark corner is out.<br />A summons has come and I am ready for my journey.Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-59895850160687745132010-08-25T12:14:00.000-07:002010-08-25T12:26:06.783-07:00relationships in personal communities<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" 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the vernacular sense we are <i style="">in a <b style="">relationship with</b></i>, like our boyfriends, spouses, and partners.<span style=""> </span>we recall persons with whom we have a longer history and memory of, like our <b style=""><i style="">relations</i></b> including parents, siblings, and in many societies extended family who may not be blood relatives but who we still call ‘aunt’ or ‘uncle’ as markers of the role that they play in our family–life. and we may think of some people who have shared specific and significant experiences with us so that we are associated with each other in <b style=""><i style="">relation</i></b> to something, like sorority sisters, hockey team members, or work colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;">
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<br />relationships have always been a manner of expressing to ourselves and to others how we are connected to each other in our personal communities. they are terribly important to us – both in terms of the emotional, financial, and informational resources that are made available to us from the interactions they represent, and in terms of what they portray to others about ourselves. we can all recall an instance of needing to clarify very quickly to someone that a certain lithe, twenty-something is only my niece, or that indeed the attentive lunch-mate is the latest love interest. the people we are connected to visually say a lot about us, or at least they imply a lot about who we may actually be. this is why the paparazzi go to enormous lengths to get that tell-tale photo, and why most persons of elevated status have well paid image consultants coordinating who they may be see with in different circumstances. relationships define who we are as individuals. </span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: arial;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US" >
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past this was not the case), monogamy is the western explicit ideal, and as children we learn that it is not polite to tell-tales on our friends. legal, moral, and ethical institutions structure how we behave within relationships.</span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: arial;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US" > in many instances these structures serve to protect the interests of those in relationships where there is an unequal power distribution.<span style=""> </span>teachers should not get too deeply involved in relationships with students, and presidents should maintain some relational distance from interns. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span><div style=""><hr style="font-family: arial; height: 3px;" width="33%" align="left" size="1"> <!--[endif]--> <div style="" id="edn1"> <p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8046371994489286461&postID=5989585016068774513#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US" ></span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-86836818194397560912010-04-12T07:28:00.000-07:002010-04-12T08:05:20.050-07:00touch technology and autismin the world of adaptive technologies, "curb cuts" refer to things that are originally designed for persons with special requirements that gain great utility for other persons. curb cuts literally are the slopes on the corners of most newly constructed sidewalks that allow wheelchairs to more easily transition from the sidewalk to the street, and up to the sidewalk again. but anyone who has dragged an uncompromising suitcase to a supposedly nearby subway knows that they are life - if not back & shoulder - savers. parents pushing surprising sweetly sleeping babes also love them, as do rollerbladers, joggers, and folks who's dexterity is not what it used to be.<br /><br />in my research i often find myself examining the ways that something designed for a particular purpose, opens doors for unintended others. for example, SMS was a network technology intended for system traffic, boring stuff for the engineers and routers to send when there was a bit of spare capacity. then japanese teenagers began to make a language out of the numbers sent on pagers - turning numeric phonetics into alpha codes. this became the stepping stone toward the commercialization of text messages over SMS networks, and the rest is history (for more on this google search Mimi Ito).<br /><br />in my current work i am looking at the use of iPod Touch devices and the 'app for that' mentality that has swept the globe. in particular touch technologies have great utility for children with communication disorders. at Beverley School in toronto a team of hard-working and visionary teachers led by a risk-taking principal are working with me to gather data on the extent to which these entertainment devices become social tools for children without a <span style="font-style: italic;">voice</span>. the results are very promising and forthcoming. yesterday's Globe and Mail in canada ran a piece about the study - see <a href="http://bit.ly/9zmSTe">http://bit.ly/9zmSTe</a> for more, and watch this blog for more in Aug when phase 1 of the study is completed.<br /><br />able & disabled r only labels.Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-86067712273802049322010-03-22T18:36:00.000-07:002010-03-22T18:57:08.361-07:00a few views about social media in academia<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUx7-o_aDv8vDOPbvjOdYuk656EivgcJMUaGk44y4xwNGsmwqWDRkDADdxD3fgK5uy4l4ms_w03KegdZjgGWXRuqxspodwEnDN_vg44nivMBTeaWi-zyVBqqq6Z-sN4g3JfDo3dX0ZTRAl/s1600-h/croppedsnap002.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451641431441653826" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 212px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUx7-o_aDv8vDOPbvjOdYuk656EivgcJMUaGk44y4xwNGsmwqWDRkDADdxD3fgK5uy4l4ms_w03KegdZjgGWXRuqxspodwEnDN_vg44nivMBTeaWi-zyVBqqq6Z-sN4g3JfDo3dX0ZTRAl/s320/croppedsnap002.png" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:arial;">this month (march 16, 2010) i was interviewed by Karla Wobito of the university of toronto Bulletin magazine about social media. below is the full interview from which the Bulletin piece was taken.</span></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><em>Q: What type of social media do you use on a regular basis (personal use)?</em> <em>(ex. Twitter, blogs, Facebook, MySpace, etc.)</em></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#993399;"><span style="color:#990000;">rm: IM, Second Life, Twitter, Facebook, blog, SMS, World of Warcraft, and Linked In.</span> </span></div><div><br /><em>Q: And, What ones do you use in relation to your role as a staff member at UofT? How do you use it?</em></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#990000;">rm:<em> </em>Blog and Linked In for academic idea sharing and networking. I blog ideas that I raise in my classes and about academic readings. I use Linked In to connect students to my former colleagues in management consulting for job opportunities. I also interact with information professionals in Second Life fairly often. The American Library Association, Alliance Library System and several Information Schools like ours have academic events, talks and social events in this extended reality environment. I currently teach a course on avatar identity and community using Second Life. </span></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><em>Q: Do you think more faculty and staff should be using blogs to help teach students or to keep them updated on the latest news in their departments? If so, what do you think is any easy way to get started?</em></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color:#990000;">rm: I do not think that social media is for everyone. I believe for some faculty social media will be viewed as useful and for others it will be viewed as a burden. For those comfortable with managing these interfaces with broad and imagined audiences, a good start may be to blog about class readings/issues arising from discussions at conferences, etc as appropriate. For persons comfortable with maintaining a journal, blogs may come easier. For those who like reporting events as they happen (e.g. journalist style) Twitter may be the better start and they might try joining in the discussions in a backchannel at a conference presentation. For others who have limited time or confidence in social media, a Linked In presence may be a sufficient start. </span></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><em>Q: Do you think that the use of social media can ever have any negative effects?</em></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#990000;">rm: As is the case with using almost any media, there are opportunities to using social media and concequences to over reliance and inexperience. While I have many examples of positive experiences, since you have asked about negative effects I will address this. 'Negative effects' suggests that the social medium had done or caused something rather unfortunate to happen to the user. I do not think of our interrelationships with media in this way. When we use devices or software (media) in our relationships with other people, these media become inextricable components of the interactions, and we are affected by media as much as we affect media. </span></div><div><span style="color:#990000;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#990000;">For example, if I regularly use text messaging (SMS) to communicate with a colleague, part of the way that I begin to think of this person is tied to the immediacy of response, the tone, and the short bursts of rapid information exchange that are conditioned by the medium itself. My colleague and I may create a system of using a missed call followed by a 20 message exchange that uses the mobile phone in ways unintended by the service provider. And I may out of habit first use text to connect with this colleague even when a voice call may be more effective. These mediated interaction rituals can hamper efficient information exchange or even, as I found in recent research, hamper the development of new relationships in the short term. But such concequences must be viewed as one aspect of a complex set of interactions in contemporary societies. </span></div><div><span style="color:#990000;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#990000;">Do people spend too much time using social media? Do they make faux pas and send rather personal missives into the ether? Do we use our thumbs more than our voices? Answers to these questions should consider both the individual user and the social, political and cultural context from which they are a product. What is clear is that community and our propensity to remain connected to others is undiminished. These are some of the things that we study at the iSchool. </span></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><em>Q: For you personally, what are all of the benefits of using social media?</em></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color:#990000;">rm: I enjoy having multiple ways of expressing my views, my interests and my personality. I know that one size does not fit all and having options to communicate with specific individuals and groups works for me. I also research youth so participating in the spaces that they inhabit (on and offline) deepens my understanding of their interactions and gives me credibility with younger people.</span></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div align="center">end</div></div>Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-76407293673127025672009-03-10T09:24:00.000-07:002009-03-10T09:44:58.861-07:00are you ever alone?one of the more interesting findings from my research study is that for mobile phone users being alone requires a conscious choice. i observed people sitting in a park at lunch time over the period of 5 weeks last summer and most had a book or newspaper in their hands and their mobile phone sitting on the seat next to them. they would read and periodically check in with their electronic lunch-time companion - perhaps for the time, perhaps to pass the time, but mainly to see if that seat beside them had temporarily transformed into a friend via a text message or email. on interview, several readers admitted that they do not feel that they are alone if they have their phone with them since they constantly and virtually accessible to their network of friends and family.<br /><br />are we losing an important individual value - introspection? do the benefits of feeling always connected take something away? and if so is this a permanent loss or a passing phase? check out a March 7th CBC Radio Spark interview on <span style="font-style: italic;">The End of Solitude</span> where i add my thoughts to this debate, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/03/episode-68-march-4-7-2009/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236703427_4">http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/03/episode-68-march-4-7-2009/</span></a>. you can fast forward to about 7:00 minutes into the program for the first part where <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236703427_5">William Deresiewicz</span> does a lead in and then I speak at about <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236703427_6">14:12</span> minutes for 3 minutes.<br /><br />so what is it like to be alone now? take a challenge, leave your phone at home for day and go for a walk. let me know what it was like.<br /><br />u r nevr alone if u have yr phone,<br />RRhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-9687540879778812042008-11-25T11:17:00.000-08:002008-11-25T12:07:56.323-08:00cry w/out weepng, tlk w/out speakng, scream w/out raisng yR voice<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/talk.jpe"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 221px; height: 146px;" src="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/talk.jpe" alt="" border="0" /></a>it occurred to me today that i have not used my voice much, yet. this is despite the fact that within the first 3 hours of being awake i Skype messaged with a friend in england, responded to about 6 emails, initiated 4 other emails, text messaged my husband, wrote a note to our daughter's teacher in her communication book for school, and typed a letter to AirCanada miles program. i communicated to/with over 20 individuals without saying a word.<br /><br />this is the daily reality of living partially in the virtual world where vocal expression is one of the available, but not necessarily the main, channels for sociality and expression. i have also found myself considering my non-vocal exchanges as talk; for example i might say "when we last spoke..." in reference to a text message exchange, or "i thought you said..." in connection with an email interaction.<br /><br />speaking a thought is a far less mediated enterprise than writing a thought. especially if you don't think too deeply before opening your mouth (like me). far less opportunity for editing and reflection - quasi-instantaneous. writing provides the opportunity/pitfall of speaking in your head first before unleashing the thought unto others. for different people to talk without speaking offers a form of comfort. several participants in my dissertation research expressed discomfort with phone conversations (mobile and fixed line) versus text or IM, especially young men. even face-to-face interaction appeared to be easier for them since the physical body and environment offer forms of mediation that the empty stillness in a phone-line cannot.<br /><br />thus, i cracked my knuckles to clear my voice and talked without speaking for much of today. still i had a lot to <span style="font-style: italic;">say</span>, and many <span style="font-style: italic;">heard</span> me. and i am quite happy with that. plus, i am sure i'll make up for lost audio when the next unsuspecting person calls or runs into me later in the grocery.<br /><br />it's just that the U2 song came to mind today; are we running to stand still? i don't think so, neither do any of the young people in my survey, but then we are techno-optimists...<br /><br />L8R, R<br />(ne1 can undRst if th will is thR, wEel an cm Agn)Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-18842982566994664052008-10-20T11:59:00.000-07:002008-10-20T12:44:51.557-07:00love taps: wireless ties that bindrecently i overheard two (older) people talking on the subway about how foolish most teenaged mobile phone conversations are. what are they talking about? according to the social commentators of the subway - not a whole lot. a little "whatzup" here and "whachadoin' - not much", there. sometimes the odd gossip in short form. in fact, the majority of 17-22 year old participants in my study claim to idly pass time on their mobile phones about 50% of the time they are on them.<br /><br />well, what a waste. yet, is it a waste? in a recent PEW Internet report by Wellman and Kennedy (see <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/19/AR2008101901346.html">here</a>) the mobile phone is one of the technologies that may be binding us together. In a US poll of 2,252 people, they found that one in four people felt that using mobile phones and the Internet make them feel closer as a family. Lee Rainie, Director of the <em>Pew Internet</em> and American Life Project, calls these silly phone calls "love taps" - just checking-in on each others well-being. in Communications Studies this is considered phatic communication which is more about social grooming than conveying information in the traditional sense.<br /><br />in my study on mobile phone use among 1st year undergrads i found that participants were subliminally conscious of who called/texed them the most and likewise those whom they mainly reached out to. thus, reciprocity features highly in these "love taps" and in turn contributes to how close young people feel to each other.<br /><br />so next time you amble past an airy-fairy mobile chat, smile and share the glow tap-tapping its way through the airwaves and heartstrings.<br /><br />c u l8r allig8r, RRhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-45705979040828340562008-07-24T06:53:00.000-07:002008-11-25T12:05:17.578-08:00trippin philippinawell, let's just say it's been a tad busy since last i blogged. there was a trip to hong kong, a conference in the philippines, vacation on the softest sand and in the turquoisest water, Ashe, camp, house buying and selling, and of course my research.<br /><br />in manila i had the extraordinary experience of witnessing how closely the mobile phone is interwoven with a culture. everyone - and i mean everyone - has a mobile, or 2. even the catholic church in manila has set up a service sending daily catechism via text to parishioners.<br /><br />philippinas are a people who have completely embraced this communication vehicle. according to John Barrett, senior analyst, asia-pacific, at pyramid research inc. in massachusetts, the philippines has the highest rate of SMS usage (text messaging) in the world. between 1998 and 2001, total mobile subscribers increased 550% to 11.1 million from 1.7 million. today it is estimated that there are over 48 million mobile phone subscribers in the philippines, sending 1 billion text messages every day. compare this to the total of 10 billion messages that all Canadians sent in 2007. oh yeah.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKUD9FEjuxJQuZfME7RFZDOWLZO4GRXYOhDBkPdx5zOv0wuEQ8Q5xiqvTXznLzsJn6K9u6-G1IfvKVWavWylWVqd4jy3zJgK2444fFyxVkLIHvBtQzadMLVvy0doStYBKNSXC7UHCMKwG/s1600-h/DSCF1046.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 157px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKUD9FEjuxJQuZfME7RFZDOWLZO4GRXYOhDBkPdx5zOv0wuEQ8Q5xiqvTXznLzsJn6K9u6-G1IfvKVWavWylWVqd4jy3zJgK2444fFyxVkLIHvBtQzadMLVvy0doStYBKNSXC7UHCMKwG/s320/DSCF1046.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226585694780160306" border="0" /></a>i chatted with a young (23 yr old) woman in the cebu airport and asked her why i saw so many people holding 2 phones - often looking at the screen on the 1st while dialing on the 2nd. she explained that it was a way to beat network cross-charges - i.e. call your "Bell" friends on your Bell phone, and your "Rogers" friends on your Rogers phone. i love it - grassroots arbitrage at its best. the developed world may not have riches, but there is a wealth of good research on mobile phone use taking place within the philippine academy. go south-east asia, go!<br /><br />L8R, R<i style=""><br />(ne1 can undRst if th will is thR, IMO. nuf Z)</i>Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-36864905263349432242008-04-21T14:17:00.000-07:002008-11-25T12:04:34.687-08:00the garden spade as mediumthe one good thing about winter is spring. hailing from the tropics, i am struck with surprise every year at this time to see the seemingly dead patch of land in the front of our house offer life from the damp and snow crushed soil. at the sight of the first industrious bud hacking it's way out to the light, out i go with garden spade in hand to offer support to the renewal at hand.<br /><br />invariably, within two minutes of my horticultural endeavours<span style="" lang="EN-CA"> </span>a neighbour ambles along and makes a garden-related comment. this prompts a friendly exchange that is the first conversation that i have with this person in about four months (the last encounter taking place just after the snow flew the season before). in the space of about 30-minutes, i would have four or five such chit-chats and gardening is the ice-breaker every time. so it strikes me that the garden spade mediates the renewal of my neighbourhood social network each spring. and i love it.<br /><br />in his new book "New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication is Reshaping Social Cohesion", Rich Ling looks at rituals as activities that foster community by offering a point of mutual engagement through which barriers to social interaction can be reduced (a la Durkeim, Goffman and Collins). my dissertation research on mobile phones and sociality supports Ling's assertion that these devices, and the rituals build on their use, positively mediate close-tie relations in our social networks.<br /><br />perhaps in a similar way my garden spade mediates the renewal of my neighourhood networks, and underpins a springtime ritual that begins with, "My goodness neighbour, how does your garden grow!". happy spring.<br /><br />L8R, R<i style=""><br />(ne1 can undRst if th will is thR, IMO. nuf Z)</i>Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-9577711447864619172008-03-10T10:50:00.000-07:002008-03-10T10:57:52.604-07:00FIS Research Day 2008<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12;" lang="EN-CA" >on friday 14th, the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto (my faculty) hosts <a href="http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&Itemid=&agid=391&year=2008&month=03&day=14"><span style="font-style: italic;">research day</span></a> where faculty and students showcase current research efforts. i will present a preview of a paper that i am working on titled "<span style="font-weight: bold;">On my own: using </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="yshortcuts">mobile phones</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to bridge loneliness</span>". The following is the abstract for the paper.</span></p><p class="Default" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12;" lang="EN-CA" ><br /></span></p><p class="Default" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style=";font-size:11;color:#000000;" >This paper reports on findings from a November 2007 survey of mobile phone use in the personal social networks of 17-33 year olds in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Toronto</st1:city>, <st1:country-region st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Findings are articulated within a social affordances lens for this new media, where in this case, social affordances refer to the properties of mobile phones that foster sociality, particularly within transitional environments. The paper considers the role that ritualistic practices associated with the mobile phone play in how 1st year university students manage feelings of loneliness. In particular, using concepts drawn from Activity Theory I analyze the way mobile phones are used to bridge social gaps in 1st year undergraduate personal networks that are exaggerated when students geographically move further away from well-established social and emotional supports provided by kin and high-school friends to attend university. The paper concludes by proposing a framework that can be used to understand the implications of using new media, such as the mobile phone, in bridging gaps for relationships founded in face-to-face interaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Default" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style=";font-size:11;color:#000000;" ><o:p> </o:p></span><br /><b>Keywords</b>: mobile phone, cell phone, social affordances, social networks, transitions, loneliness, rituals. </p>Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-70291782236490782702008-03-03T19:03:00.000-08:002008-03-03T19:19:14.464-08:00travel and talktravel<br />i attended the 3rd annual iSchools conference held in Los Angeles (and hosted by UCLA) yesterday. apart from the obvious benefit of escaping the coldest days in Toronto for the balmy breezes of Venice beach, there was real benefit in attending this years' conference. the "hot" topics - for me - were (1) mobile phones and intimate relationships - this was a roundtable facilitated by some solid researchers at UC Berkeley and could not have been a better session for my dissertation research; (2) Science and Technology Studies - a panel of some top researchers in this analytical approach; and (3) Communities and Technologies - a "wild card" session which attracted a large group of interdisciplinary researchers who ended up brainstorming the very definition of "community". all-in-all a good meeting, great topics and new extensions in my academic and friendship networks... thanks Ramesh!<br /><br />talk<br />tomorrow, March 4th, i present to the Canadian Marketing Association in a roundtable called: "How does social media fit into your marketing strategy?" See http://www.the-cma.org/?WCE=C=47|K=228020. among other things i offer research findings on the demographics that use social media and how privacy/ethics can be considered by marketers.<br /><br />ciao for now.<br /><br />L8R, R<i style=""><br />(ne1 can undRst if th will is thR, IMO. nuf Z)</i>Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-33338101332470665542008-02-07T07:39:00.001-08:002008-02-07T10:05:52.378-08:00social graphing, identity and privacyGoogle has recently announced the availability of its Social Graph API, which is an application programming interface that allows software developers, product developers, and frankly anyone who reads and writes in the languages of the Internet, to uncover the people connected to each other through their connections to Internet documents and services. for more on this see http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/.<br /><br />i use the word uncover appropriately here since because i have a webpage, a blog, and a facebook account, and you may have linked to any one of these three "documents" but have decided against making yourself explicitly known to me; what API's like Social Graph does is remove the documents so that i can now see that you and i, and some of your friends who are linked to you, are indeed connected.<br /><br />in the initial reactions to Google's Social Graph API some* have raised concerns about privacy. the debate can be over-simplified into two camps: a) it's all public information anyway, and privacy by obscurity is dead already, so why not? And b) even if a) is true, just because we can mine this data without requesting user permission, ethically speaking should we?<br /><br />i want to point out a fundamental flaw in the way privacy as a socio-legal construct is interpreted. in north america the legal doctrine considers what our "reasonable expectation of privacy" is in public. with the exception of Quebec**, case law says that our houses (the brick and mortar ones versus "home" pages) is the place where we should expect to be protected from the prying eyes of the state and others. however, once we step outside of the home this expectation rapidly diminishes. according to the laws of our lands there is a geographical delineation of where we can expect that our actions are private. this falls apart in online communities where there is no geography of bits. where when we post something, like a revealing photo to our Facebook friends, we may not expect that only our fb friends are watching. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">yet</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">, there is nothing equivalent in the physical world to applications like the Social Graph API. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">short of having a way for armies of private investigators to very quickly amass the data on everything and everyone we connect to </span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">in public spaces, </span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and the friends of their friends too. for this reason and many others, the way that privacy as a legal doctrine is currently used is not valid when we look at these api's. there is a growing gap here between what privacy means ethically and what our recourse will be legally.<br /><br />my second, thought on this is that there is a troubling and, depending on who is using these api's, dangerous underlying assumption at work; that the identities that we construct in these different online spaces, connecting to very different groups of people, may be summed up to equal a coherent representation of a person. if you strip out the context of the interactions - which is what these api's do - is the resulting data on the social connections even sensible anymore? for a good read on this see David Phillips' paper on the use of pseudonyms as identity masks online and the implications for software designers (***reference below). because the word surveillance is coming far to quickly to my mind and i wonder if what is being interpreted is anything worth having at all.</span></span> then again, it always is...<br /><p class="MsoNormal">L8R, R<i style=""><br />(ne1 can undRst if th will is thR, IMO. nuf Z)</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;">*</span>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_privacy.php; http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/02/04/just_because_we.html</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;">**<st1:state st="on">Quebec</st1:state> is the only place in <st1:place st="on">North America</st1:place> where photographers are required to get permission from the subjects of photographs that will be presented to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;"><span style="font-size:85%;">***Phillips, David J. (2002). "Negotiating the Digital Closet: Online pseudonymity and the politics of sexual identity", Information, Communication & Society, Vol 5, No. 3, pp. 406–424.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><i style=""><br /></i><span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" lang="EN-CA" ></span><b style=""><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" lang="EN-CA" > </span></b><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" lang="EN-CA" ><o:p></o:p></span>Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-88840122854503216172008-02-03T08:00:00.000-08:002008-02-03T08:09:02.263-08:00the more things change...reflections on how dependent and tethered we have become, and are still becoming to technologies like the mobile phone leads me to consider what others thought about technology adoptions in the past - a historical look back.<br /><br />National Public Radio (NPR) in the US ran a story on mobile phones on Christmas eve 2007 and included this excerpt. For the full story, including a quote from Barry Wellman, one of my dissertation committee members and friend, see here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17587238&ft=1&f=1006<br /><br />"The cell phone, some worry, is encouraging rudeness and eroding social graces. In that sense, this new technology is nothing new. We humans have always had misgivings about new technology. When the train replaced the horse and carriage, 19th-century critics worried that the new, high-speed juggernaut signaled the end of leisurely, contemplative travel.<br /><br />The advent of the telephone (land lines, not cellular) prompted Mark Twin to pen this Christmas greeting in <em>The Boston Daily Globe</em> in 1890: <p><em>It is my heart-warm and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone."</em></p>over and out for this week,<br />Rhonda<em> </em>Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-7956459613452000272008-01-25T06:03:00.000-08:002008-01-30T10:49:39.125-08:00tech-mediation: parents and children<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh375ACsXiu89HCIT63IlwJ6IsydIgL6Ht9swCnjN8Upa2nj_373y0svyvZliahKhhaL4_iXtDY-oY03R-pCAZtzto26TrvbxpiznRVQ2wYneDqGz2hCtc-Z6BboR5K0rzC0VNDLOKa4BDK/s1600-h/parent+text.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh375ACsXiu89HCIT63IlwJ6IsydIgL6Ht9swCnjN8Upa2nj_373y0svyvZliahKhhaL4_iXtDY-oY03R-pCAZtzto26TrvbxpiznRVQ2wYneDqGz2hCtc-Z6BboR5K0rzC0VNDLOKa4BDK/s320/parent+text.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159420403974299218" border="0" /></a><br />when i left the small island of Trinidad in 1996 for the slightly larger island of England/Scotland, email had only just hit the mainstream public Trinidad. but recognizing how much it would save me - both financially and emotionally - i made sure that my mother learned how to use it so that we could stay connected during my first steps away from home.<br /><br />to her immense credit, she persisted through flaky 14.4 kbps dial-up connections often needing to rewrite entire pages of hard earned typing when the system would fail, but truly she was probably one of the 1st power users of email in her generation (not counting the email corporate crowd, of course). thus, technology and particularly communications technologies can be a powerful connector and mediator across generations, especially where there is another motivation to use the technology - holding on to important relationships when geography gets in the way. still for many parents the onslaught of mobile phones, Blackberries, webpages, iPods, iPhones, blogs, wikis, flickr, Skype cams, Second Life, etc. is a huge hurdle and sometimes an obstacle in the already complex dynamics of communicating with their pre-teens, teens and young adult children. further, as the aging baby-boomers arrive at retirement and leave easy access to these technologies at the workplace, connecting to grandchildren is even more problematic and confusing.<br /><br />never before in history have so many communications media been available at the same time. and as we, of the tech-generation hurry to use and explore these with excitement, it is worth a pause to consider whether the armfuls of technologies that we settle on for this month or that help or maybe alienate those who still want to just feel near to us. and in that pause consider the tax we ask the previous generation to pay for loving us. just a pause. then wheel an' come again...Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-35101485350267447332008-01-17T10:45:00.000-08:002008-01-17T11:49:10.571-08:00Hodgkinson lashes out at fbwith a well-inked pen, Tom Hodgkinson whipped the blogosphere into a frenzy with his Jan 14 op-ed in the Guardian "With Friends like These", see <a name="&lid={articleBody}{Tom_Hodgkinson}&lpos="></a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/tomhodgkinson"><span style=""><span style="" lang="EN-CA"></span></span></a><span style="" lang="EN-CA"> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook</a>. </span>using one of those inevitable lapses into bored procrastination, you should check it out. stinging, hot, and bright - kinda like the tropical sun, but...well, not. there is lots that is being said out there about it and i add 2 reflections; faces and places.<br /><br />first, faces. in the midst of the piece Hodgkinson echoes what i have heard others say before about fb and other such spaces; people are manufacturing and carefully maintaining a proxy of what they "look" like on fb. naysayers are unhappy about this, and point out that we are not being honest about who we are on these virtual spaces, loads of our fb friends are imposters, and in our fb profiles so are we. well i ask, who are we in physical space, anyway? do you have one face? instead, perhaps all of these new spaces are places for us to put on many different masks and have some fun. for a long time anthropologists have studied <span class="content">the cultural significance of masks and identity presentation across cultures; from </span><span class="content">french-</span><span class="content">colonial balls, to Trinidad carnival, to halloween, we love to mask, even in the physical world. </span><span class="content">in general, we are told that masks have two important social functions: (1) they provide a disguise for the wearer and (2) they allow the wearer to assume the identity, at least temporarily, of some other person or being. in new media, there may be a third social function: (3) virtual masking allows us to highlight and project in a much more flamboyant way that we can in face-to-face interactions a sub-set of ourselves geared to the whomever we perceive to be the audience. e.g. perhaps i want the explicit-content, spoken-word orator in me to be my dominant face for MySpace, but push my academician face on my website? (btw, i don't yet have an explicit-content spoken-word orator in me... but it's a thought).</span><br /><span class="content"><br />second, places. while Hodgkinson catches plenty, he misses the point that many people get disappointed with this glorified utopia that is the physical, f2f world - where environmental degradation, terrorists, pedophiles, corruption, politics (of any kind neoconservative, liberal, whatever), and mindless jobs persist, and where we get to go to pubs with our friends loads of times. my research subjects tell me that virtual spaces like fb are places where they can just relax, take a rest, and whoa betide, have fun of the silly, mindless ilk. especially when life says that f2f is rarely possible when we need it.<br /><br />so, i largely don't buy what hodgkinson is selling. not because there is not some truth in it, but because every now and then i know that folks just want to escape the f2f, and throw a chicken at someone out there.<br /></span> <p>L8R, R. <i style="">(ne1 can undRst if th will is thR, IMO. nuf Z)<o:p></o:p></i></p>Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8046371994489286461.post-27236775627248099482008-01-17T10:03:00.000-08:002008-01-17T11:48:16.635-08:00why me?so although for many i'm a little late to the party thumpin' on the blogosphere, among my peeps i'm still gettin' here early. i thought i'd better answer their immediate question in the first post...why Rhonda, why are you doing this?<br /><br />as a researcher in new media, i kinda hafta be in here. a bit of participant observation if you will. and i believe that what John Gregory Dunne said is true, that "writing is manual labour of the mind: a job, like laying pipe". <span class="huge1">so it's a workout. </span>lastly, and more seriously, i'm playing with this blog thang as a form of asynchronous conversation with the big, bad whomever, that i will lovingly call "my public".<br /><br />so, my public, since research shows that less than 10% of people who read blogs ever post a comment/response, i invite you to every so often be that 10%. let's talk.<br /><br />L8R, R<i style=""><br />(ne1 can undRst if th will is thR, IMO. nuf Z)<o:p></o:p></i>Rhonda McEwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07723731961009944464noreply@blogger.com2