ThingsAmongMany

The internet isn’t necessarily the most kid-friendly place in the world. Sure, there’s plenty of content out there that’s suitable, but without some sort of curation, your youngins are certain to run into some less than wholesome moments along the way. Tom (aka meat99) – head POKEr, internet buff, and father of two – has made it his business to remedy the situation by introducing the KideoPlayer.

A mashup of POKE’s UpL8.tv player, the KideoPlayer is a carefully curated selection of videos, handpicked from the YouTube archives to be kid-safe and often educational. In Tom’s words,

I will spend my free time sourcing, identifying and curating the safest, most educational (and most FUN) YouTube videos I can find. This ongoing list of videos will be served up in a simple little interactive package that I can sit down and play with my boys.

So if you’re a parent who’s interested in helping your kids grow up digital in a safe way, definitely check out the KideoPlayer. You’d be amazed at how quickly they’ll learn to slap the spacebar for a new video, and now you can rest assured that the content they’ll see is kid-safe.

With the upcoming election mere days away – amidst a financial crisis that reminds many of the Great Depression – voices are getting louder and tensions are mounting nationwide. Politics is one of those topics that’s always quick to polarize opinions and bring the masses to their feet, and this year is no exception. In fact - and perhaps I’m simply paying closer attention or experiencing yet another aspect of living in NYC – I don’t recall ever experiencing an election as full of emotion and expectation as this November promises to be.

With emotion and a desire for change in our country fueling the fire, the crew here at POKE, along with our buddies at Mother, has just launched our newest project, SpellingChange.com. Picking up where Obama’s own Artists for Obama effort leaves off, Spelling Change posed a simple challenge to artists and designers around the world: demonstrate your support for Obama by reinterpreting one letter of the alphabet based on what Obama’s candidacy means to you. Those letters were then printed on t-shirts and photographed on Obama supporters.

The project doesn’t end there, though. There’s an open call for entries allowing anyone to submit their own letter design to SpellingChange.com. Visitors can use the collection of letters on the site to spell out their own personal statement of change and share that statement with the world, either digitally or on tees, bumper stickers, posters, and postcards.

Visit SpellingChange.com to create your own statement and take a step toward spreading change!