PBS TeacherSource article on the end of DOPA

At the beginning of the challenge, we looked at "The 30 Positive Uses of Social Networking Sites", which was YALSA's response to the Deletion of Online Predators Act (DOPA). DOPA was quickly passed in the House, only to sort of fade away once it reached the Senate, and finally died with the beginning of a new congressional session. Andy Carvin gives a good overview of DOPA's rise and fall on the PBS TeacherSource blog, here.

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Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year? You.

State of the Blogosphere..

If you're in the mood for an interesting link, try Sifry's State of the Blogosphere. Written by the creator of Technorati, a blog search engine, the article discusses blogs by the numbers, with charts on how many new blogs are started a day and how many different languages blogs are published in. Skim through if you're interested to see why it just might be important that we at least understand this whole blogging thing.