News for July 2006
- Week of July 2, 2006 - Risk and Benefit
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There are social-networking and blogging risks that will affect a lot more young people than
the sexual predation that has dominated coverage of teen socializing this past year. Among them are
peer harassment ("cyberbullying") among young teens, reputation risks for older ones, and the newest
one to come to light, one that is both risk and benefit
- Week of July 9, 2006 - Videos on Web 2.0
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Videos on Web 2.0 - the kind that kids upload as much as they download and view -
were much in the news this past week.
- Week of July 16, 2006 - Age verification
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Age verification has come up in kid-tech news this week as a potential safeguard for young social networkers.
Would it work?
- Week of July 23, 2006 - "What's the appeal?"
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With teen blogging, socializing, and media-producing increasingly in the news, the question on a growing number of parents' minds
is "What's the appeal?" Why are young people putting so much about themselves on the Web?
- Week of July 30, 2006 - "Online videos"
- Video-hosting and -sharing sites were the No. 1 story in kid-tech, in fact all tech, news this past week. One reason
is that Web traffic measurer Alexa reported that video host YouTube.com has actually passed up MySpace.com in the number
of site visitors.
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