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Building a Culture of Responsibility

Stephen Balkam | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology

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We need to build a Culture of Responsibility online where government, law enforcement, industry, teachers, parents and the kids themselves accept differing yet overlapping areas of responsibility.

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A Tweet of Consciousness

Stephen Balkam | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

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Where is Henry James when we need him? Or Carl Jung? Or Teilhard de Chardin? I wonder what all three of them would have made of Twitter. My guess is that James would have approved.

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Schools Out for Summer: Kids Go Online

Stephen Balkam | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living

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Now would be a good time to have a talk with your children, tweens and teens about what they are doing online, where they are going and what they are uploading.

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Setting the Obamas' Parental Controls

Stephen Balkam | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media

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It would send a strong signal if the president established the post of Chief Online Safety Officer, directly responsible to the CTO, to help unify his administration's efforts.

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