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NetSmartz411.org advises parents by Larry Magid Special to the Mercury News Most of the time I write about gadgets or fun Web sites, but today’s column is about a more serious topic: Keeping your kids […]

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is launching a new Web site to answer parents’ questions about Internet safety and computers. The free service features an interactive knowledge-base where parents can use […]

My good friend Anne Collier, my co-author of MySpace Unraveled and my co-director of BlogSafety.com publishes a very nice newsletter about family tech news. Here’s the TOC of her latest issue. Teen child-porn convictions upheld […]

I’m in Washington DC today helping to launch the Family Online Safety Institute. For details, see this AP story By DIBYA SARKAR AP BUSINESS WRITER WASHINGTON — The explosion of social networking sites such as […]

by Larry Magid Special to the Mercury News With the explosion of services like YouTube, video is all the rage. But few of us are ambitious or outgoing enough to create and post our own […]

More than a dozen years ago I wrote a booklet for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children called Child Safety on the Information Highway. Millions of copies are in print and countless people […]

Samsung has introduced a phone that looks a lot like the Apple iPone with the added advantage of having a pull out keyboard. It’s unclear to me whether this is a copy or if they […]

This is major progress. First Steve Jobs comes out against Digital Rights Management and now one of the major labels is starting to crack. Could this be the start of a sane policy of selling […]

This is an extremely interesting observation by researcher David Finklehor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center. What it implies is that we might be teaching teens and children the wrong things when it […]

Well, I’m now officially a blogger. Thanks to Dave Winer for suggesting I give out my RSS feed (I almost forgot) and thanks to Dan Bricklin for helping me figure out how to house this […]