Josh Porter has the overview.

I'm not sure I understand Obama's youth following – if it's for real.

Henry Jenkins' testimony before congress in the wake of the Columbine shootings.

Stay Free! provides readers with instant-messenger initialisms for golden girls.

Atrios has this insightful post on the drinking age of 21 in the US. I agree that the problem isn't teen drinking as much as teen driving. Let's make the drinking age 18 and the driving age 21.

Provides background on DeWolfe and the social networking portal in a non-paranoid way.

Video of Henry Jenkins talking about kids making media online. This isn't really about Web 2.0 — in the sense of "Architectures of Participation" — as much as it is about "user-generated content" or "peer production."

This site aggregates profiles of MySpace users who have died.

James Dobson's Focus on the Family issues a press release warning parents about MySpace. It doesn't mention desensitizing kids to hideous design.

Today's featured article on Wikipedia. This is the kind of information WIkipedia is good for sharing, but I often wonder who writes these things.