Brian Teeman

Bullying is perhaps one of the oldest and most unpleasant human traits. With the rise of the internet we have moved from the playground and office bully, who is easy to identify, to the more anonymous cyber bully.

Sadly cyber bullying is something that is on the rise and schools and the workplace are still attempting to establish means to identify this and handle it appropriately.

Over the last year I have been working closely with several schools across the UK to raise awareness of the issue of cyber bullying and to establish policies and best practice to handle this appropriately and considerately.

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Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks you will know that J&Beyond took place last week in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Over the last 10 years I have attended countless Mambo, Joomla, Linux and other open source events and I'm convinced that this was the best of the lot.

It's hard to say exactly what it was that made this event the best.

This is a guest blog post by Marcos Peebles from PIEZOWORKS.

So, Drupal got the White House, nice and a very positive move for Open Source in general and CMS's in particular. What about Joomla! and governmental sites?

We always want to know were we stand, don't we? Recently a typical internet buzz tried to imply Joomla! was for the dwarfs and that more serious CMS's got all the biggies. Is it true?

A reply from the very-naughty-boy hosting this blog on twitter to OSM President Ryan Ozimek, about a country using Joomla! got me going for a deeper look.

..on a live site.

Thats right I really did say don't install Joomla 1.6 Beta 1 and I encourage everyone else not to as well.

How can I say that?

Am I mad?

Am I saying it's rubbish?

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Last week I met up again with David Towers for our semi regular lunch time gossip.

David has recently returned from a trip to the West African country of Ghana and it was great to hear all about his trip.

Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country to achieve independence from a Western imperial power, in 1957, and lies on the Prime Meridian so is one of the few countries that is in the same time zone as me, here in the UK.

It is also the second largest producer of Cocoa and one of the world's top gold producers.

World's third largest retailer adopts Joomla!