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| Author Finds Solid Sites for Children Jean Armour Polly has updated "The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages" (Osborne McGraw-Hill). In the first edition compiled four years ago, she had to stretch the term "children's site." Most of the 1,800 listings in her first book were sites designed for adults. Polly selected them because they were written in simple language or covered interesting subjects like photography or astronomy. In the new edition, for each of the 4,000 or so entries in the 820-page book, she rejected about 10 sites. But a new concern is commercialization. "There are more and more sites aimed at kids. Along with that came more and more marketing messages," said Polly. She ended dropping many entries from the first edition because the ads were starting to drown out the content: "Too much noise versus signal." See Net-Mom (http://www.netmom.com/), a site Polly maintains. [SOURCE: CyberTimes, AUTHOR: Pamela Mendels (mendels@nytimes.com)] http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/cyber/education/24education.html Andy Carvin Home, school, Kids, family, games, cooking, learning, education, K-12 - (12/4/99) Back to the Topic Index |
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