A Generation Gone: Thanks Youtube, Twitter, Facebook

I am pro-social media, but I am also pro utilizing the medium for some sort of long term, fruitful strategy. It is already happening now, but I predict that in years to come there will be a terrible negative backlash on the open nature of the internet, specifically social media.

Right now, there are millions and millions of people on the internet doing the most outrageous and bizarre things that they were doing previously in the privacy of their home.

Well, there is nothing inherently wrong with acting like a complete idiot, as long as you know how to act when you walk outside of your home. With the advent of these social outlets, people are now revealing all that they truly are, for better for worse.

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Ford MyKey System Lets Parents Control the Speed, Stereo Volume of Teenagers’ Cars

In the state of Alabama there is a constant battle to keep teenage drivers safe.  Just at the high school my son attends there has been a traffic related fatality involving one of the students for the past four years.  This is not a curse as many of the students would like to think but a growing epidemic of inexperienced drivers taking to the roadways. Read more

8 ways technology has shaped the ’08 elections

From e-voting to text messaging, a look at how tech trends have changed our politics

By Brad Reed, Network World, 10/15/08

Tech’s role in Decision ‘08

Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 elections — and it isn’t just the typical silliness over whether a candidate really claimed to have invented a key piece of technology. Throughout the year we’ve seen technological advances used both for good, such using SMS to announce a vice-presidential pick, and for bad, such as hacking into another vice-presidential pick’s private e-mail account. In this slideshow, we’ll take a look at the eight techiest moments of the 2008 presidential race, including YouTube debates, viral videos and e-voting controversies.

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