The dope on DOPA

From Multimedia & Internet@schools Magazine

When proposed legislation to address the dangers-real and perceived-of online social networking surfaced in Congress recently, the education, library, and ed. tech. blogosphere erupted with commentary about "DOPA," the "Deleting Online Predators Act." Here's a sampling from some of the best known bloggers, each with enough links to keep you occupied and reading for as long as you have time and interest. If you're not up on this, reading these posts will quickly fill you in. (Maybe we should call these "Hot Links.")

• Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk blog: Doin' something about DOPA
• Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth blog: For Schools & Libraries, Web 2.0 + Congress = 0
• Andy Carvin's learning.now blog from PBS TeacherSource: New Federal Legislation Would Ban Online Social Networks in Schools & Libraries
• Christopher Harris' Infomancy blog: Dealing With DOPA
• Will Richardson's Weblogg-ed blog: Headline: Congress Targets Social Network Sites
• David Warlick's 2 Cents Worth blog: DOPA-manic, and then, more recently, Online Communities-Except in Schools