Milestone for Net safety: Hemu moves on
Hemanshu Nigam, better known as Hemu, helped MySpace weather some serious Net-safety storms since shortly after News Corp. acquired the social network site. I’m telling you this because today he...
View ArticleFormspring: What’s going on around it
Last week I wrote about what’s going on at Formspring. This week: what’s going on around it. The problem we, all of us, are dealing with isn’t mainly a Web site whose business plan did not include...
View ArticleChecking in on the media shift
We’re experiencing a profound media shift that’s shifting other things too. The signs are all around – struggling newspapers and other publishing companies, the way children gather information and...
View Article‘Cognitive surplus’ calls for more media-literacy
The information (and production) overload of the digital era creates more of everything: both high- and low-quality content coming from everybody, amateur to professional. To quote the quoter (policy...
View ArticleTeachers, ‘digital natives’ need you!
“To all those teachers worried about being made obsolete by digital natives, rest easy. You have a LOT to teach them,” blogs computing education professor Mark Guzdial at Georgia Institute of...
View ArticleParenting & overparenting in the digital age
What struck me about danah boyd’s post about the helicopter-parenting of social media users was that the banning of Facebook forces young people “to choose between social status and parental...
View Article1st look at Facebook’s ‘social [abuse] reporting’
On the social Web, where content is not just communication but behavior as well, safety is a shared experience. A single user can’t guarantee it, no matter how optimized his privacy settings and...
View ArticleDigital achievement badges for people of all ages
Unlike the Girl Scout/Boy Scout ones many of us grew up earning, these merit badges – though just as visually appealing – are digital, for people of all ages, and will go into Facebook pages, blogs,...
View ArticleSo we’re all becoming cyborgs, Dr. Turkle?
This article was originally published April 23, 2012, then my service’s server crashed, losing months of data. So reposting 11/18/12. “We want to customize our lives…,” “It is as though we have all put...
View ArticleFacebook’s new photo-syncing tool
Facebook just caught up with Google+, Dropbox, and its own little sib Instagram (which it acquired last spring) where photo-uploading convenience is concerned. [I've found photo-sharing much easier and...
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