May 4th, 2010 
lance4hire 
My son is 9. He invents new ways to augment the assault capabilities of his Nerf dart gun. This enterprise often involves trip wires and remote triggering mechanisms, as well as machine gun hide build-outs from his bunk bed ladder. Sometimes his ideas overshadow his ability to fashion a working prototype. He gets frustrated. (more…)
Posted in From the headlines, Internet vigilantism, Universal SoMe 
Tags: Boeing, children, Harry Windsor, invention, social media 
View Comments October 8th, 2009 lance4hire Jack Shafer has a problem. In his post earlier this week for Slate, Shafer takes issue with the FTC’s new disclosure rules for bloggers, calling them “preposterous.” Simply stated, if a blogger is writing about a product or service he or she has received free of charge, that arrangement now needs to be clearly identified to the audience. The presumption, of course, is that a blogger’s review could possibly be swayed by the free schwag.
In editorial circles, it’s called payola. And in ethical editorial circles, it’s not tolerated. So why does Shafer have a problem? (more…)
Sara Fitzpatrick Comito is a poet, freelance writer, communications director at Elemental Stone and Waterworks, Inc., and a member of the Social Media Club of Southwest Florida steering committee.
She is a frequent contributor to Naples Daily News and her has appeared or is forthcoming in nthposition; The Camel Saloon; Short, Fast, and Deadly; Barrier Islands Review and Hip Mama. She is the editor of the online art/literary journal Orion Headless.
She lives in Fort Myers with her husband and nine-year-old son.
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