10 month ago
philgyford : Charlie's Diary: Youth of today - I love things like this, reminding those of us a little older what the world is like from a young person's point of view. (via Mildly Diverting)
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12 month ago
gleuschk : Virginia Heffernan on Sesame Street - Children's TV has changed so much that a preschool classic on DVD now carries a warning.
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16 month ago
WillPate : One Lapdance Per Child - "Nigerian pupils browse porn on donated laptops"
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18 month ago
WillPate : Children Younger Than 7 Use Electronics - US children now start using consumer electronics (CE) at an average age of 6.7, down from 8.1 in 2005
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WillPate : What's a teenager? - "Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, "The Case Against Adolescence," that teens are far more competent than we assume, and most of their problems stem from restrictions placed on them."
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20 month ago
cameron : The Merchants of Cool - PBS Frontline documentary about youth and advertising in the information age.
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21 month ago
cameron : 1982 interview with Nolan Bushnell, inventor of Pong, founder of Atari - Amazingly candid interview which is so right on for being 25 years old. I never knew what Atari meant! And some great technology quotes, such as my favorite: "video games are the training wheels of computer literacy." Brilliant man.
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22 month ago
cameron : Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll - Emily Nussbaum writes about the distance between generations that the internet is introducing. The argument is a bit far-reaching, and I really wonder how much of this is really awareness and not culture shift?
jimray : Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll - New York Mag piece on how kids these days are putting their entire lives online and how us old folks just don't get it (sorta)
bmilleare : Say Everything - Good read on the social aspects of the web
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cameron : In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year - Washington Post weighs in on the eventual demise of MySpace in the fickle world of teenagers.
deusx : In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year - washingtonpost.com - "think it's definitely going down -- a lot of my friends have deleted their MySpaces and are more into Facebook now"
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Guy Kawasaki interviews panel of young adults on technology - I've seen panels like this before, and they're always insightful and interesting [via]
cameron : Next Generation Insights - Video of a Guy Kawasaki panel featuring a few kids views on media usage.
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26 month ago
cameron : E-Mail is for Old People - The Chronicle of Higher Education explains to us old people how those young'uns are using crazy technology we've never heard of.
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deusx : apophenia: youth and those crazy hormones - "There should be a list of things that youth should learn as young as possible to be a part of society."
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36 month ago
WillPate : Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked | PBS - Great essay by Henry Jenkins, MIT Professor
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