On 03/01/11 10:59 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > Not today. My kids are all "modern, computer-savvy teens" (understand > "teens" starts at about age 11 and lasts until about age 35). They can > Facebook *all* *day* but cannot compose an email to save their lives. > > I'll have to look into jabber. jabber is a IM client seems like what you want is more like a webpage with 'news items' on it, perhaps a blog like S9Y or Wordpress, and a web browser window displaying the current page on the desktop, maybe that auto refreshes hourly or something.