Depending on one’s perspective, Twitter and Facebook have been credited and blamed for helping to organize uprisings in Egypt, Iran and elsewhere in the Middle [...]

There have been a couple of interesting blog posts lately about the issue of whether suspension, expulsion or other strong disciplinary measures actually help deal [...]

SafeKids.com and ConnectSafely.org are developing a resource directory for youth in crisis. The directory is not for general information but urgent services and helplines for [...]

The FBI has released a simple iPhone app that can store information about your children and send it to authorities in the unlikely event they go missing. Parents fill out [...]

A controversial new law signed by Missouri’s governor would make it a crime for a teacher to have an “exclusive” conversation with a current or former [...]

You’ve no doubt heard about Britain’s phone hacking scandal that brought down the 168-year-old News of the World tabloid and led to the arrest of its former [...]

Like any civilized person, I was shocked, disgusted and pained by the news that the dismembered remains of Leiby Kletzky, an 8-year-old from Brooklyn, were found in a [...]

As I say in my recent blog post over at CNET, a new web service enables families to stay in touch, even with kids who are too young (under 13) to be on Facebook. Unlike some [...]

For the past week, I’ve been playing around with Google+, a new social networking service that competes with both Facebook and Google. The service is in test mode at [...]

After returning from Facebook headquarters to hear Mark Zuckerberg make his “awesome” announcement, I had a chance to try out the new Facebook video chat which is [...]