Are you in Dumbledore’s Army

Attention any/all HP-devotees out there, Warner Bros launched a new site about a week ago for any/all “Hogwarts students” dedicated to destroying “He Who Must Not be Named”
Harrypotter.warnerbros.com has been around for quite a while. With each new movie, the site gets a face lift. Sadly, the older cooler elements of the site [...]

Zwinktopia stomps into Tweenish Virtual Worlds

The timing couldn’t be much better for InterActiveCorp to launch Zwinktopia, a new virtual world for young teens. Other virtual worlds, such as Gaia, Habbo Hotel, Cyworld, Neopets, Club Penguin, Webkinz and others, are exploding in terms of unique monthly visitors and total time spent at the sites.Until today, IAC’s Zwinky was a site to [...]

Worthy Tween/Kid Communities

With the web being as broad and expansive as the universe these days, I thought I might lay out some wicked webpages (communities, etc) for kids/tweens/teens.

Foster’s Big Fat Awesome House Party*: Safe, original, and never boring… This online community
is one of my personal favorites. It’s got goofy smeared all over it (if you’ve ever [...]

Acceptable.tv really lays it out for you…

TUTORIAL #1: How to Structure Your Acceptable.TV Story
Before we get a chance to be hung up on anything else, most of us get hung up on our story. In this first tutorial, we meet new Acceptable.TV contributors Dan and Justin, who are doing just that when they receive a special guest.
Acceptable.tv isn’t tween/teen/or kid, but [...]

UGC & The Use of the Internet = Confused Students

Study: Students Don’t Understand Copyright Rules
By John Eggerton — Broadcasting & Cable, 4/10/2007 10:34:00 AM
The majority of students (87%) who upload copyrighted material to user-generated video sites like YouTube, Facebook or MySpace don’t get permission from copyright owners, even though most (74%) believe it is fair to pay people for their use.That’s according to a [...]

Kajeet’s new buddy, Whyville: Tween Networking Beyond

Whyville, the tween/teen targeted online social network, has partnered with kajeet, the new tween-aimed pay-as-you-go mobile phone service, to offer its members the ability to use customizable chats functions through kajeet Chat Factory. Additionally, kajeet is offering an online Friend Finder service that Whyville members can use to contact one another with a personal [...]

Hanging with the Tater Tots: A quick Q&A with Kids

Yesterday I took the day off (yay!) and was able to visit the extended day program run by the park district that I used to work at.  I miss the kids and the people who work there (one of my best friends from High School runs it).
During particularly heated games of “Skippo” and “Baloney [...]

Tweens, shopping, and adulthood

Tweens ‘R’ Shoppers
IT is 11:15 a.m. The kids have the day off from school and I’m mall crawling The Westchester in White Plains, with my posse: my 11-year-old daughter, Lake, and two of her friends, Annabelle K, 11, and Eve W, 12.Shortly after we enter the mall, my perfectly coiffed and lip-glossed group of girls [...]

Best/Worst internet laws

Over the past dozen years, the lure of regulating the Internet has proven irresistible to legislators. For example, in the 109th Congress, almost 1,100 introduced bills referenced the word “Internet.” Although this legislative activity doesn’t always come to fruition, hundreds of Internet laws have been passed by Congress and the states. This body of work [...]

Noteworthy: Barbiegirls.com

Welcome to BarbieGirls.com℠ ! The Barbie Girls™ world is designed to be
a safe, fun, and exciting place for girls to play online. Once a girl
has registered with the site, she can create a virtual character,
design her own room, shop with B Bucks (virtual “money”) she earns,
play games, watch videos featuring her favorite Barbie™ movies and
products, [...]