The social Web & elections

This isn't exactly kid-tech news, but it's an illustration of how the largely youth-driven social Web can complicate things. There's a lot of campaigning – both positive and negative – on social-networking sites, this US election season, and it, like the teen social scene, can get messy. "Today, campaigns are heavily turning to the hugely popular post-it-yourself Web sites - YouTube, MySpace Video and Google Video - especially to upload damaging clips of political gaffes," the San Jose Mercury News reports, providing a bunch of examples. The Wall Street Journal and IDG News also report on the social-networking platform. MySpace just launched a voter registration drive called "Declare Yourself."