EU Kids Online - Final Report

Something for me to sit and have a read of when I get five minutes ... the EU Kids Online report from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

With 75% of European children using the internet, some observers celebrate children’s youthful expertise while others worry that they are vulnerable to new forms of harm. Policies to balance the goals of maximising opportunities and minimising risks require an evidencebased approach [...] Funded by the European commission’s Safer Internet Programme, EU Kids Online (2006-09) is a thematic network that aimed to identify, compare and draw conclusions from existing and ongoing research on children and online technologies conducted in Europe.

Click here to go to the report.

How Twitter will Change the Way We Live

How Twitter will Change the Way We Live is an article that was published on Time.com this morning. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I was alerted the the existence of the article from twitters new-ish feature 'Trending Topics' that appeared on the site a few weeks ago. There have been other articles along the lines of Why-Twitter-Isn't-Pointless-Crap recently but I thought this one was rather convincing and elequent. I especially liked that it admitted that we actually do quite like to hear about what our friends had for breakfast (for the social warmth) as well as the deeper more useful effects it can have for professionals.