Family Online Safety Institute

Larry Magid's SafeKids.com is quite probably the world's best-known Internet safety resource. The site contains a range of resources on Internet safety for parents and children, including rules, advice, and contracts for family Internet use. Larry, a dad himself, is the author of the earliest and most widely circulated Internet safety guide, Child Safety on the Information Highway, published in 1994 by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Updated and reprinted many times, it has become the standard work by which all other guides are judged. He serves on the board of the National Center.

Larry is also co-director of BlogSafety.com and co-author of MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to Use it Safely (Peachpit Press, Berkeley, Calif., August 2006).

Larry is however, first and foremost, a journalist and commentator on technology matters. He serves as on-air technology analyst for CBS News and has been syndicated technology columnist for more than two decades. His columns have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, International Herald Tribune, CNN.com, AOL, CBSNews.com, and numerous newspapers and Web sites throughout the world. Larry currently contributes to the New York Times, and his technology reports can be heard several times a week on CBS network and affiliate stations throughout the United States. In addition, he appears frequently on television and contributes regularly to radio programmes in other parts of the world, including London drive-time morning radio.

Larry's tech columns can be found at PCAnswer.com and his other podcasts can be heard at RadioLarry.com.