How to Parent in a Digital World: Resources
Family Minecraft Policy (Google Docs version here)
Family Support Form Responses (copy this to your Google Drive so you can adapt it to your family’s needs. For help, see How to copy a Google Form)
iOS 12: Getting to Know Screen Time & Stronger Parental Controls (for iPhone/iPad)
The Complete Guide to Setting up Parental Controls in Windows
How to use Parental Controls in Windows 8
How to Use Parental Controls in OS X to Protect Your Kids
4 Ways to Set up Parental Controls on Your Home Network
Parental Control Tools That Cover Every Device In Your Home
Even in a virtual world, where you live still matters
One of the fantasies that comes from living online is that it doesn't matter where you are based if you're hooked into the net. But in the process of disentangling my online address book -- arguably essential to living life online -- I came across a great interview...
Making time for creative expression online
Pur time online doesn’t have to pull us away from what really matters. The pursuit of creative self-expression is one that the web makes vastly more accessible.
On Oprah.com: 6 ways to be a better parent online
If it takes a village to raise a child, that village no longer needs to be defined by the place you happen to live. This post for Oprah.com shows how to find online support to help you be a better parent online and offline.
Getting to know you in the age of Google
I ask digital anthropologist Brynn Evans to weigh in on the etiquette of googling new acquaintances — before or during a meeting.
The Tantalizing Promise of Social Search
Of all the sessions I missed at this year’s SXSW, the one that I regretted the most was the Social…
How to password-protect yourself from iPhone addiction
iPhone contact has become reflexive. The five minutes before a meeting, the two-minute walk to the coffee shop, the 10 seconds between parking the car and walking in the front door: they’re all moments when I automatically reach for the iPhone.
If my iPhone were a cigarette, I’d be a chain smoker. If my iPhone were a bottle of scotch, I’d be a hard-core alcoholic. If it were a rosary I’d be a religious zealot.
There’s nothing I could touch as frequently as I touch my iPhone without looking like a total freak.
What makes me think that the constant, obsessive iPhone contact is any less freaky? Or more to the point, any less addictive?
On Oprah.com: Great dates that take your marriage online
This post for Oprah.com shows how the social media can take your marriage online — with a great date offline.
Kill your tech truths
We’re taught to think of technologies as constants…and so we fall into thinking of tech in absolutes, and getting attached to truths that hold us back more than they help us. Here are 10 tech truths you would do well to question.
Confidential to Beer Guy
You know who you are. In the card-swapping frenzy that is SXSW, I'm not surprised to have a conversation interrupted so that somebody can give me his card, and ask for mine. It was only later that it seemed like a really, really bad idea for you to give me yours. I...
From HBR.org: Five Unsolved Problems Social Media Could Fix
Check out the panels or exhibitors at this year’s SXSW and you’ll see how many longstanding social media and web…