Teen's tips for avoiding MySpace dorkiness | Perspectives | CNET News.com:
"As much as I love MySpace.com and would detest restrictions for its use, I will concede that social networks are only as strong as the people who comprise them. So here are my five rules for using MySpace. I hope you all consider them--yes pink_Sparkle_fairy and sk8erPrincess246, I am talking to you."
Monday, August 07, 2006
Child ID Cards .....
Net Family News - kid-tech news for parents:
Child ID card?
'NetIDMe,' a new 'virtual ID card' for kids out of the UK mentioned by the BBC, is no 'killer app.' Like child age verification, it would require critical mass to be truly useful - e.g., all children required to have an ID card, which would also mean large databases of personally identifying info. One way it would work is in large groups, say, a school district: if every student had an ID card tied to a district's student database, and if there were a rule everybody followed that they could only email and IM with fellow ID-card-bearing students in the district (obviously this wouldn't work on MySpace). But everyone would have to obey the rule. Actually it might work better with peer groups, if everybody in the peer group obeyed their parents' household rule that everyone on the buddy list has an ID card. Parents, you can see even that would be a challenge! For more on this, see my feature 'Verifying online kids’ ages.”"
Child ID card?
'NetIDMe,' a new 'virtual ID card' for kids out of the UK mentioned by the BBC, is no 'killer app.' Like child age verification, it would require critical mass to be truly useful - e.g., all children required to have an ID card, which would also mean large databases of personally identifying info. One way it would work is in large groups, say, a school district: if every student had an ID card tied to a district's student database, and if there were a rule everybody followed that they could only email and IM with fellow ID-card-bearing students in the district (obviously this wouldn't work on MySpace). But everyone would have to obey the rule. Actually it might work better with peer groups, if everybody in the peer group obeyed their parents' household rule that everyone on the buddy list has an ID card. Parents, you can see even that would be a challenge! For more on this, see my feature 'Verifying online kids’ ages.”"
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Inspired again – is it sustainable?
Having just spent a very interesting day at the Blogs and Social Media Forum I am now sitting on the train back to Birmingham wondering how I can capitalise on some of the comments and ideas that were discussed. It will take a while to internalise it all but one immediate effect is a renewed drive to incorporate blogging into my daily(?) routine.
Up until now, I have had lots of ideas that I was going to write about but they have not materialised. Listening to the speakers today has helped me to reflect on my own use of this media and identify the self imposed issues I faced. I am not a natural writer; reports and other documents go through a lot of iterations before they are shared and, subconsciously, I have been applying this to my blogging. I would start a post, rewrite it several times and either run out of time or decide that it just wasn’t good enough. The end result – the point does not get made or the information is not available.
My target now is not to agonise over the structure of my writing but to make sure that the information available. If the content is useful then people will have to tolerate my style and with any luck I will improve with practice.
Up until now, I have had lots of ideas that I was going to write about but they have not materialised. Listening to the speakers today has helped me to reflect on my own use of this media and identify the self imposed issues I faced. I am not a natural writer; reports and other documents go through a lot of iterations before they are shared and, subconsciously, I have been applying this to my blogging. I would start a post, rewrite it several times and either run out of time or decide that it just wasn’t good enough. The end result – the point does not get made or the information is not available.
My target now is not to agonise over the structure of my writing but to make sure that the information available. If the content is useful then people will have to tolerate my style and with any luck I will improve with practice.
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