It's As Easy As Riding A Bike...Or Not!

End of summer edit from Taylor Dwight on Vimeo.

My oldest son shows off his riding chops. Nice!

EtherPad: A Neat Tool for Collaborative Writing

I recently stumbled upon a really terrific web-based tool for collaborative writing. It's called EtherPad. I find it to be particularly well suited for cases in which two or more people need to agree on a stretch of text or a small document. Chris and I just started using it for refining the snippets of text that appear throughout the FamZoo user interface. I can see where it would be fantastic for all kinds of writing situations - technical or otherwise.

I love simple, focused, useful tools like this. Kudos to the folks at EtherPad.

Check it out.

Are Your Kids Active Online?

If so, here is a nice short post by Seth Godin that makes for some excellent family dinner table reading and conversation. Kids (and some parents) really need to wrap their heads around the consequences of a permanent digital record...