Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Cartoon Doll Emporium

Of interest NY Times article this AM - for 9 year old girls, an alternative to SL.

Cartoon Doll Emporium


And some stats on popular kids interactive websites:

Virtual Playgrounds
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3 comments:

tcarroway said...

Just an interesting sidenote...

I wanted to learn how to add hyperlinks to text in blog entries, and the first link I found was to a "for pay" tutorial company... the next link was to a low-qual video on youtube that did the trick and I learned in less than 30 seconds for free - what do you all think about the idea that the internet and the personal spaces allow anyone to teach or represent or train anything?

My thoughts are just like the problems I encounter in helping clients evaluate the popular myths of knowledge management - and all the effort that is required to metamanage and maintain information, not to mention all the guesswork and analysis and pre-planning / organization that needs to go on to even make knowledge management and document management tools useful and used.

The same comments apply to this "it's all on the internet" idea, and to the idea that we don't need to learn it as much as we need to know where it is... should we be teaching children and learners how to create logical organizational structures, entity relationship mapping, and metamanagement??? (I am of the Nilan school of "user-based systems design" - often rejected because of it's "no duh!" simplicity - how many times have you created or had to work with a directory structure, filing system, or other organizational system that makes absolutely no sense for you and your context / needs, and that ends up with you opening and closing empty folders looking for something and diving down and backtracking out of empty rabbit holes of placeholders that someone thought would be the way to manage information???!!)

tc

June 6, 2007 at 9:49 AM
tcarroway said...

And... some interesting chatter on webkinz... from kids and parents (supposedly)...

tc

Webkinz chatter

June 6, 2007 at 9:55 AM
tcarroway said...

and, the link!

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmericanFamily/comments?type=story&id=3033380

(sorry, guess I haven't learned as much as I needed to, to make manual entries with HTML in them in comments - you can't go back and add html in a comment - once it's posted, it's permanent... like we say for some apps training in CRM, "submit is commit!!")

tc

June 6, 2007 at 9:57 AM

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