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Untrackable teens talk tech

by | Apr 29, 2005 | pre-wp

Danah Boyd and several teens at the recent Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle confirm what I’ve always said about teens and RFID surveillance technologies: they don’t want it and they can get around it. From the transcript of the panel...

Author visits and me

by | Apr 28, 2005 | pre-wp

Children’s writers clearly don’t receive the celebrity we deserve. We have to buy our own groceries, dress ourselves, chew our own food and even fight end of level bosses alone. It’s a tragedy. But it’s a tragedy that is corrected by the...

Who’s watching the kids?

by | Apr 22, 2005 | pre-wp

I’ve posted earlier about RFID tags in kids clothes and cell phones providing a handy way for parents to strip kids of all sense of privacy and personal responsibility, while exposing their developing organs (like that useful thing called a brain) to potentially...

Back? Back!

by | Apr 22, 2005 | pre-wp

Okay, what started out as a typical silence due to too much work was extended by a series of glitches with Blogger and then exasperated by a complete synapse shutdown on my part with my server settings not being tweaked when they clearly should have been tweaked...

BuddyBeads connect teens by emotion

by | Apr 1, 2005 | pre-wp

[via textually.org] With 44% of US teens owning a cell phone staying in touch with your best friend is only a SMS message away. BuddyBeads are bringing that teen connection even closer. Designed and built by Ruth Kikin-Gil, a masters student at the Interaction Design...