My Afflation

Photo courtesy of Breaking News This morning I almost missed the last launch of Atlantis, the last of the space shuttles to be retired. I think I would have been really upset if I had missed it. One of the dreams I had as a little girl was to be the first Black doctor in space. Mae Jemison beat me to it. The closest I have gotten was having Sally Ride as my physics professor at UCSD. Thanks to the wonder of the internet, and NASA really embracing social media, I was able to find a mobile optimized version of the stream. I actually watched the first 10 minutes on the official NASA TV site, but then started getting lag, so switched to the Ustream NASA Mobile channel. Streaming Live by Ustream As of this writing, the stream is still live. I just watched the shuttle separate before it switched to Mission Control.

So last night I had a little bit of a signal fail and wasn't able to live tweet (darn iPhone users :) ), but I did take notes. The hashtag for the event was  #Digg4 From Drop Box From Right to left to right the panelists are: Laurie Sullivan (@ LaurieSullivan ) MediaPost Senior Writer. Online Media Daily, and Search Marketing Daily. @MediaPost Evan Greene, Recording Academy / Grammys (award winning We're All Fans campaign ) @ TheGrammys Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, Urgent Content, Strategic Producer. Urgent Content created and produced Flip Video's campaign for Cisco featuring Lenny Kravitz, Tony Hawk and curated UGC video commercials. (formerly, Producer, Current TV, Viewer Created Content Dept.) - @ urgentcontent @ faketv Chas Edwards , Digg . CRO & Publisher. @ Digg - @ chaznote - social curation at scale Jean Aw , NOTCOT.com  founder. NOTCOT is a digital inspiration bulletin board for graphic designers @ notcot  Moderator: Kevin Wins...

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Image via CrunchBase My blogger/twitter friend Duong wrote an interesting article on Kids in the Digital Age. She ended it with a question: How do you deal with your kids growing up in the digital age? What advice or suggestions would you offer parents? My answer was pretty long for a blog comment, and it got me thinking. I decided to post my response here, just in case: I was/am very strict with my teen son's use of social media. At one point he got his computer privileges taken away for over a month for starting a MySpace account without parental consent -- and I made him wait until he turned 14 (legal age according to MySpace TOS at the time) to get an account. The one rule was that I had to be one of his friends and if necessary, could require his password at anytime. I try to check his account on a regular basis to see what he and his friends are up to. He has to know every person in real life, and his account is private. If he can't explain to me who someone is, I make...