youth participation

danah boyd has a great post today ("let the stalking begin" ) on a subject that really scares me too--stalking devices sold to parents so they can basically "stalk" their kids, keep them under surveillance all the time, protect them against internet predators. Protecting our kids is important . . . but as Pete Reilly shows, it's not the internet you need to be worrying about but the family members and family friends and trusted advisors close by.

This delightful and insightful article takes kids from a public high school to a four-star restaurant and records what they see and what is invisible to the gourmand adult. Why not do this for software developers?