The school year is ending and kids are getting ready for weeks of sun, relaxation, camps and hanging out - online. From Club Penguin to MySpace, YouTube and the latest next big thing, Ning.com, children will be spending more time online than ever before. According to the Pew Internet and...

The case of 13-year old Megan Meier taking her own life after being taunted and harassed online has showcased a conflicting and confused picture of the potential dangers of social networking sites and what should be done about them. A court in LA has indicted a 49 year-old, Lori Drew,...

In the first event of its kind, over 200 of the world's leading experts on child protection on the Internet came together in Washington, D.C. last week for the inaugural Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) Conference and Exhibition. Held at the Ronald Reagan Building a block from the White...

When it comes to the Internet, the kids are fearless and the parents are clueless.

This is the first technology in human history where the children are leading the adults. During the agrarian age, we taught our kids to plant, to weed, to nurture and to harvest. At the...

The second Internet Governance Forum concluded here in Rio de Janeiro recently following four days of intensive debate about the current state and the future direction of the net. 1,500 participants from around the world attended this UN-sponsored gathering that including veteran Internet hands like Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn...

In a previous posting, I began to outline what a "new culture of responsibility" would look like in relation to online safety and child protection. I made the case against heavy-handed government regulation and censoring of what kids could and couldn't see. And I pointed out the best thing folks...

The Internet has changed everything -- including the Internet itself. This vast, global, organically growing online medium has seeped into every facet of our lives and upended how we work, learn and play. And it is changing the way our children experience the world -- for good and ill.

Picture this: Fifteen-year-old Lucy comes home from school and sits down on the couch with her laptop to do her homework. She turns on her beloved iPod, flicks on the TV and opens her Web browser to check her e-mail. Sure enough, her mom has just emailed from work and...