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Archive for December, 2008

Monitoring Online Content

Yahoo! Answers is a community where anybody can pose a question and anyone can answer that question. So, what happens when kids post recipes for getting high online? Who’s responsible for monitoring this type of troubling content? The content providers like Yahoo? The government? No one? I joined Fox News reporters to tease out the [...]

What Da Ya Know? Facebook Time Could be Time Well Spent

“Living and Learning With New Media,” a three-year study by the MacArthur Foundation-funded Digital Youth Project, posted its findings in a report on social media and kids. The bottom line? There’s a lot to be learned by spending time on social network sites. Despite what parents and educators may think, online time for teens is [...]

‘Tis the Season for Recommendations

In the “what do I know” category, www.military.com asked me to share some PC buying advice. PC buying advice, I’m convinced, is like medical advice. It’s fine to say “take two aspirins and call me in the morning,” it’s just not particularly useful. It’s in that spirit that I won’t be providing specific models of [...]