What’s next? Brick walls?
I Googled the words fence-plowing today and there were 63 news mentions (now 64), so far mainly in the greater New York area. Fence- plowing involves humans (well, kids) hurtling themselves into fences until they knock them down.

We’ve been paying a lot of attention to legislators as they attempt to rid the web of predators and purveyors of child porn. But, while we’ve all been looking at predators, we haven’t been paying attention to what the kids are doing. They’ve become creators of their own pornography.

It’s been a busy few weeks in Washington as a flurry of legislation is being proposed to help clean up cyberspace. Most recently, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a bill that would require ISPs, web sites, social networks, and other online services to alert the government when there’s any illegal depiction […]

The folks at Common Sense Media recently issued a report that said parents are more troubled about how much their kids play and interact with media (video games, TV, and social networks) than they are about drinking, smoking, or sexual behavior. The study, a poll of families, showed that kids are spending more time […]

I spent Groundhog Day in Cisco’s New York offices with 70 students representing the cream of the crop of high schools that are a part of the Academy, a program designed to teach students how to build and maintain networks. The participating schools partner with Cisco to offer basic network administration certification. If it sounds […]