ABA 2006

They're "fast becoming a culture of technological chatterboxes," the Toronto Star reports. A recent national survey of nearly 1,100 Canadians by Angus Reid Strategies found that only 18% of people in Canada do not own a cellphone but, at the other end of the spectrum, 18% couldn't live without thei ...

What I mean is, hackers (not malicious ones) have something to say about social-networking sites. Thousands of them gathered at two conferences in Las Vegas this past week, the Associated Press reports. Here's the important part: Hackers are seeing intruders in social-networking sites who "commande ...

Once you get past Tagged.com's and Facebook.com's amazing growth figures this past year (774% and 270%, respectively, with Bebo in third place at a respectable 172%), the worldwide membership of these sites is a little less jawdropping. But that international appeal probably explains a lot of these ...

Last week Larry Magid and I co-wrote a commentary that ran in the San Jose Mercury News Sunday. Hundreds of news outlets worldwide had picked up the story that MySpace has deleted the profiles of 29,000 registered sex offenders. The news may have been shocking to a lot of parents of teen social net ...

This is something for social networkers to be on the alert about: computer security and social engineering on social-networking sites (social engineering is what phishers and identity thieves use to trick people into making themselves and their devices vulnerable to hacks and ID theft). The latest ...

Bradley Nassif writes about the desert mothers and fathers for Christianity Today, a popular, evangelical magazine.

The Catholic Herald takes note of the multiple advantages resulting from the decision of the monks to open enrollment in the once all-male boarding school to young women.

The Tablet features thoughts on Lectio Divina by Dame Laurentia Johns OSB in its Pentecost issue (10 May 2008).

From 16 to 29 May, Nairobi National Museum hosts an exhibition on the Benedictine ways of peace coordinated by Communio e Liberazione.

On 29 April, the monks of Affligem Abbey, Belgium, elected Dom Rik De Wit OSB as abbot. Abbot Rik assumed his position at a ceremony on 5 May 20008.