On the Internet, if you’re under thirteen years old, you don’t belong in most places.  Sites like Facebook, in particular, have made it abundantly clear that those under the age of thirteen are trespassers, subject to deportation.  But three things are changing the picture and it’s my guess that we’re about to see kid’s web [...]

Stanford University’s John Hennessey and Khan Academy’s Salman Khan discussed online education at the recent D10 conference. Khan has created an educational system based on short videos – students gain mastery on their own timetable. Hennessey made Stanford’s courses available online in a highly interactive manner. This video, shot at the D10 conference, has Walt [...]

My friend Stanley, a poet and inventor, calls it the App-endix of kids apps.  Like any true curmudgeon, he says the app-endix, just like the real ones in our bodies will disappear through the process of evolution.  There are lots of reasons for Stanley’s gloom.  An overcrowded field with too many tepid entries and no [...]

Smartphones in summer are far from perfect. The screens are hard to see when you’re out of doors, they tend to run out of batteries at inopportune moments, and it seems you’re always in a no-cell area when you need one. Still, your smartphone can be your summer companion on the road or in your [...]