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DadLabs Wins IAWTV Award: Best Educational Series
By Daddy Clay Monday, January 16th, 2012
“I’d like to thank the Academy.”
Everyone should get to stand on a lighted stage, heft a statuette and say these words. Corny or not, it’s a thrill. And for a drama kid, something often dreamed about.
The Academy in question is the International Academy of Web Television, the as of yet unnamed statuette, an impressive architectural looking series of Tubes, awarded for Best Educational Series. Not a Best Picture Oscar, maybe, but the award had the DadLabs crew flying high as any Golden Glober. (My nominee for statuette name: a “View” — as in we have 40 million views but none more important than this one.) Read the rest of this entry »
A Parenting Dis-Kinect: Coming Around 360
By Daddy Clay Friday, January 6th, 2012
I’m thinking about the challenges faced by previous generations of parents. I’m thinking about parents that had to cope with the arrival of Rock ‘n’ Roll or the Sexual Revolution; parents that had to send their kids off to the factory or the draft.
I’m thinking about these parents as I try to figure out how to attach the Kinect Sensor to the XBOX.
If you had to distill the greatest challenges faced by this generation parents down to a single word, would it start with a lowercase i? Read the rest of this entry »
Hottest Top Trendy Tech Toddler Trends List of Hotness
By Daddy Clay Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and research lately about kids, parents and technology. One of the clearest trends: kids are using technology at a younger and younger age. Many of the biggest tech companies have picked up on the trend and are now offering products aimed at the much coveted 0-9 year old demographic. Here are a few products designed to optimize that protracted software install we call “childhood.” Read the rest of this entry »
Dear Sprint, Limit the iPhone? Let Me Count the Ways
By Daddy Clay Monday, November 28th, 2011
You’ve seen the apps drifting across the cityscape in the most recent commercial from Sprint. The one that ends with a cherubic kiddo, maybe 5 years old, playing with what we assume is his parent’s iPhone 4S as the voice over asks, “Why would anyone want to limit the iPhone?”
Did I hear that right?
What next? Disney touting parent-free cruises to Amsterdam? Read the rest of this entry »
