Come on, America, please don’t make me repeat myself… uh, okay, too late. In the story that will (apparently) never die, once again U.S. attorneys general—17 of them, this time!—are appealing to Craigslist to can their adult services section, forcing Hot Topics to find new and interesting ways of regurgitating and reconstituting old posts. Sigh. [...]

First things first: happy birthday, Canada. Now, it seems we can’t ever escape this topic, but a gaggle of recent discussions involving cyberbullying have been begging for our attention. I’ll begin with a study by McAfee/Harris [pdf], which appears to show a decline in online bullying in spite of a sensationalist press release that encouraged negative [...]

On the day that Facebook announces new privacy settings amid almost instantaneous Web-wide reactions, we wanted to go over, in one all-encompassing post, the issues that led us to this point. The thing is, there was already a notorious precedent, and the world’s foremost social networking site had been collecting plenty of negative press even [...]

A few posts ago, we mentioned Common Sense Media in passing, but we would be remiss if we ignored a recent and very laudable initiative from that same U.S. organisation. Larry Magid at CNET News reports that the non-profit resource has developed a new educational curriculum, the Digital Literacy and Citizenship Initiative, aimed at raising ”a generation [...]

Two more interesting stories related to video gaming, then we’ll move on. When most people think of the Boy Scouts organisation, images of wholesome, largely conservative and typically practical activities tend to dominate. Which is why it might be surprising, initially, to learn that the Boy Scouts of America have introduced two new video game-related [...]