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Cait Hurley, online professional and blogger at http://moolies.typepad.com, has agreed to reprint her blog about the subject on everybody's mind.......

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Preamble - why I'm writing about this

Here she goes, writing about Twitter again. Sigh. But this time, it's important!

There seems to be a state of denial on the internet that Twitter has any safety implications for kids, which I… Continue

Hi all. Rebecca Newton is a member of the Metaverse Mod Squad Advisory Board and has agreed to guest blog today on the issue of the recent FTC fining of Sony. Here ya go!

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/s… Continue

Our friend Izzy Neis, posted this awesome video on her blog. It is a film of children's faces as they play computer games. What a range of emotions. About half way through, one girl has a single tear come down her face. Heartbreaking.

But what you mostly see is joy, fun and… Continue

I love this. I am going to the Kids Online (un)Conference next week and my new theme is going to be the simplicity of found objects as the ultimate in entertainment. I guess we adults over think things. We certainly never did as children.

"And last but not least, one very unconventio… Continue

So just arrived back yesterday from the Virtual World Conference in London and I am catching up on email and blog posts (translation: surfing Facebook and TMZ.com). I tried to update via Twitter mostly, but unfortunately we were stuck manning the booth and in meetings, so I was able to attend only one session in its entirety.

The session was the keynote by Linden Lab’s new CEO Mark Kingdon. I had actually been looking forward to that, as my husband works for LL and constantly gets an earful fro… Continue