JediMom Blog

I’m a regular user of the microblogging platform Twitter. I’ve seen a number of newspapers use Twitter simply to announce breaking stories. While that’s a fine use of Twitter, this week I found my local paper embracing a true Web2.0 community approach. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has launched a HWY40 Twitter feed and has recruited [...] Tags: hwy40, st louis, st louis post dispatch, stltoday, traffic, twitter

This week, the parents of a teen from my area blamed MySpace for their 13-year-old daughter’s suicide. They are pushing to have local and state laws expanded to cover online harassment. The most disturbing piece of this story for me is that a parent — a mother — used social media to manipulate and bully a [...] Tags: myspace suicide, online bullying, relational aggression, social networking, Social Networks, teen

The majority of my friends with children have yet to dip a toe into a social network. At the same time, their children are adopting social networking at an astounding pace. You won’t see commercials for MySpace or FaceBook, but if you watch ten minutes of a kids’ network, you’ll see a stream of ads [...] Tags: children, kids, parenting, shining stars, Social Networks

Last week, I attended SMX Social in New York. The first day of the conference my computer actually functioned — the second day it blue screened and “lost” the OS. This little computer glitch gave me a chance to rediscover pen and paper, but it also allowed me to take note of the behaviors of [...] Tags: attention span, multi-tasking, social networking, Social Networks