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A commentary in The Guardian this week was music to my ears. Bronwyn Kunhardt, co-founder of the UK nonprofit Social Media Consensus, cites Pews Internet & American Life research to begin to quantify all the good things young people are doing on the social Web, where they are the premier social producers and creative networkers, aka the “natives.” Pew found that “55% of online teens have created a … [Read more...] about ‘Tourists’ could respect ‘natives’ more

Yesterday was "patch Tuesday," Microsoft's monthly security-patch day when all family-PC owners should be sure their computers have the latest security updates. This month, "at least 19 separate security holes in its Windows operating system and other software, including two vulnerabilities that criminals are actively exploiting to take control of Windows PCs," Washington Post computer-security … [Read more...] about PC patch-up time

In this week's issue of my newsletter, I review the new book Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online, by Anastasia Goodstein. Please have a look! … [Read more...] about Read ‘Totally Wired’

Anyone concerned about defamation on the social Web – such as school teachers and administrators – might be interested in a lawsuit filed in Canada by a businessman who says postings in a variety of sites “paint him as disreputable and as a bully.” Writing in the Toronto Star, law professor Michael Geist says that if Wayne Crookes, formerly involved with the Green Party, wins his cases against … [Read more...] about Free speech on social Web: Canada

The tips about child exploitation or child porn that the US’s CyberTipline receives 24/7 are acted on immediately. One of the Tipline’s analysts at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children looks at what comes in via the Web (at CyberTipline.com) or phone (via 800.843.5678) and immediately looks at the threat level to a child. If it’s top-priority, the people behind the Tipline, the … [Read more...] about How the CyberTipline works