Parents on Facebook: close relationship with your kids, or an invasion of privacy? To be fair, my mom was on Facebook long before I was...
Review of an interesting site that features children's stories, with the option to listen, download them to your ipod, or record your own story.
Clay Shirkey (author of Here Comes Everybody) looks at James Grimmelmann's paper on the privacy issues of Facebook.
Scientists at UC Berkley (Wellness in Kids project) found that socioeconomic status (and the stress that goes with poverty) makes a huge difference in basic neural development.
The military is using a mix of live action video and video games to try and reduce soldier suicide, and to help train leaders to make tough decisions under pressure. Two interesting things: they used video rather than animation to increase realism, and in this game there no necessarily "right" answers - every action has consequences.
The army has found that having burn victims play a 3D virtual reality snowball game has significantly eased their pain.
New book (one of the authors is over at Sloan) describing how businesses are beginning to realize and use the power of games for training and motivation.
The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
Device that measures nonverbal cues during conversation. Could be very interesting if it was used to quantify some of the nonverbal social cues that those on the autism spectrum miss.
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