The American Library Association today unveiled its collection of more than 700 Web sites it recommends for children, as well as child-friendly sites for parents and other caregivers.
The association announced its guide at the Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children, a meeting of industry, law enforcement, and children's advocates. Defining the role of librarians as guiding kids to quality resources, the association said that the Internet is a way to expand that role beyond books.
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Not on the librarian's list: Pamela Anderson Lee and her husband, Tommy Lee, have dropped their attempt to bar Internet Entertainment Group from distributing from its Web sites a video that shows them having sex. The dispute between the Lees and IEG, which was handled by an independent arbitrator, ended in an undisclosed agreement.
(1.Dec.97)
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Interactive Tonight: By January, NBC's Tonight Show will make some initial steps toward TV interactivity. Viewers will be presented with a graphic overlay at the top of their TV screen which will feature trivia, guest information, quizzes, and advertisements, Variety reports. Interactive TV service Wink Communications is developing this service with NBC, which has already added similar interactivity to its NFL broadcasts.
(1.Dec.97)
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Better red than dead? The makers of the much-maligned, excessively violent computer game Postal have decided that they enjoy all the negative publicity they've been getting. Game creators Running With Scissors will soon release a patch for the game that will allow gun-crazed players to shoot an equally insane exploding package-tossing Santa Claus, reports GameSpot.
(1.Dec.97)
