San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Dennis Rockstroh Column: Action Line: Parents Can Learn Way to Block Adult Movies
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By Dennis Rockstroh, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 15--Q When I received my Comcast cable bill, there were many "pay per view" adult movies on the bill.   It turns out that my son ordered the movies through the remote.
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By Danielle Sottosanti, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 8--The Oro Valley Town Council unanimously voted last night to filter for pornography all Internet access at the Oro Valley Public Library.
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Toy-inspired movies like Transformers and Bratz are lucrative for Hollywood, but experts warn they could also be harmful for kids' development
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Flash animation or tennis? As summer camps open for business, parents need to seek out a good balance.
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Instant messaging and online chat are well on their way to ubiquity -- especially among the young. How can parents ensure messaging is safe?
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun.
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TV guru says: Keep kids safe, lock 'em out The former TV parenting guru leading a government review into violent video games and internet predators says parents need to get their kids out of the house if they want to keep them safe from net creeps.â¦
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.
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Parents' tend to worry about the obvious Internet dangers, such as porn, sexual predators and, to a lesser extent, misinformation. According to new studies by a non-profit group, Wired Safety, there is now another cause for alarm: cyber bullying.
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In 2005, there's a good chance you or someone you know will buy a digital television set and a satellite radio and purchase a movie at home using a remote control or laptop. In the newspapers (strike that -- on the Internet), you'll read more about radio and television indecency and may very well see the Supreme Court take the first step toward tossing out the federal regulations that have kept NBC from looking more like HBO.
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A California congressman&#39;s report criticizing teaching kids to be abstain from sex is hardly a surprise to family advocates. A new government report claims abstinence
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 1
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By Dennis Rockstroh, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Mar. 11--Today we re-visit the Consumer Action Line Web log at http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ consumer actionline/ just in case you haven't visited.   Ms. Jekyll, Ms.
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A federal judge today overturned a Pennsylvania law aimed at restricting access to web sites hosting child pornography. Pennsylvania Statute 7330 required ISPs to block access by the customers to child porn sites.
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By Jim DeBrosse Staff Writer  For parents losing the war against children who spend too much time in front of TVs, video games and computers, there are high- tech weapons available to fight back.
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One of the most vexing problems in home computing is finding a way for parents to govern their children's use of computers and the Internet. The goal is to keep their children safe from the creepier content and people on the Internet and from spending too much time on the computer.