Comments on: How children’s sites see your kids as marketing goldmines

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:08:43 +0000

Never give out or use your real name. Pretty basic but by far the most effective way for kids to protect their privacy. Also: dont include your birth year or age as part of your user/screen name. Mixing it up on each site is helpful also. Teach your kids to pretend they’re spies.

By: Children’s Privacy Online « ideas Revolutionary

Children’s Privacy Online « ideas Revolutionary — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:00:50 +0000

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By: jennyrotten » Blurring The Lines Between Content And Marketing

jennyrotten » Blurring The Lines Between Content And Marketing — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:29:23 +0000

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By: Mike Gifford

Mike Gifford — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:35:17 +0000

Fascinating presentation. One wonders how long those online agreements can possibly hold for — nobody reads them anyways — but to target them for children and not put it in plain language is pretty bad.

By: Colin McKay

Colin McKay — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:39:29 +0000

That’s a very good point, and a public education goal we’re looking into. A lot of companies assume that their clients have the patience – or the skill – to read complicated user agreements.

By: G. Frankus

G. Frankus — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:33:46 +0000

Great presentation. Very scary. As a young mother in the mid ’90′s I always taught my son NEVER to give his name or other personally identifying information online; as we both got older I started reading these EULA’s and privacy policies assiduously – but I know the vast majority of people do not read these contracts. And since civics and media literacy are required high school subjects (the first more so than the second) I wonder if EULA’s and online privacy agreements shouldn’t also be part of the curriculum?

It would certainly be a mistake to leave this subject in the hands of the required tech/data processing/business courses.

By: Harold Jarche » New models for living, working and learning

Harold Jarche » New models for living, working and learning — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:08:01 +0000

[...] The great work of our time is to design, build and test new organizational models that reflect our democratic values and can function in an inter-connected world. Failure by our generation to do so will leave the next one to deal with the reactionary forces of corporatism; something our children are already facing. [...]

By: Eric Jacksch

Eric Jacksch — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:57:17 +0000

Thanks for the insightful presentation.

Just a note — I’d happily add a trackback on my blog, but your “trackback” link on this page doesn’t seem to provide a trackback URL.

By: Colin McKay

Colin McKay — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:23:12 +0000

Thanks – I’ve added the link to the summary.

By: Ottawone

Ottawone — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:13:28 +0000

From about 14:50 of the video on, I heard 4 of the “scariest” minutes of Web audio that I’ve come across in a while. It’ll come up in conversations and on my on blog.

It would have been nice to have a link to your earlier post somewhere in this sentence: We have already provided a brief summary of her presentation and her fellow speakers on the subject,