You can now load software in your kids' BlackBerry and/or cell phone that will be your watchdog (to prevent them from being approached by someone potentially trying to molest them)
How it works -- the program will send the parents a text message when a foreign IM, text message or e-mail comes into their child's phone or PDA (anyone not on an approved phone contact list).
Female high school athlete's picture goes viral online and, upsetting the student and her family.
Live gaming chat is becoming increasingly abusive and crass.
Music downloading by young people is reportedly in decline.
danah boyd comments on a hypothetical privacy scenario provided by the Harvard Business Review
"High-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse."
"Josh Wolf, a 24-year-old blogger, has spent more than six months behind bars in California -- the longest contempt-of-court term ever served by someone in the media"
"Over the past months, I've heard several journalists make the same comment at various industry forums: That blogs are a "parasitic" medium that wouldn't be able to exist without the reporting done at newspapers.
"I had to laugh hysterically (and groan) today when someone described a blogger as 'world-reknown expert on WordPress'. The blogger had been blogging for 4 months. I know personally that they had no PHP, WordPress, or web design experience prior to beginning blogging. Now that they have the title 'expert', there is no telling who will believe that claim."
"With big corporations now hiring public relations firms to pay fake bloggers to plant favorable opinions of the businesses online, many political bloggers are concerned that candidates, too, will hire people to pretend to be grass-roots citizens expressing views."
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You can now load software in your kids' BlackBerry and/or cell phone that will be your watchdog (to prevent them from being approached by someone potentially trying to molest them) How it works -- the program will send the parents a text message when a foreign IM, text message or e-mail comes into their child's phone or PDA (anyone not on an approved phone contact list).
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