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- Ning! MySpace is dead. Long live social networking.
- I stumbled across Ning a few weeks ago as I was looking for some end-of-year activities for restless students. Ning is a free service that actually lets you create your own social network. While this turned out to be an interesting exercise for my students, particularly once they...
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Teachers + MySpace = Bad Idea?
- Maybe...The Boston Globe reported that one local school district is at least drafting a policy advising against inappropriate conduct or communication via social networking sites. While this is hardly earth-shattering, the head of one Boston-area teachers union said: "We just want to make teachers aware that when they...
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- State wants to require age verification for MySpace
- All the warnings, pamphlets and assorted educational pep talks about the dangers of social networking are apparently not keeping kids safe for minors. The Connecticut state legislature is taking matters into their own hands. Its proposing a bill to require MySpace.com and other social-networking sites to verify users...
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Teens grieve on deceased friends' MySpace profiles
- As teens spend more of their leisure time hanging out online, it stands to reason that when a loved one dies, they would turn to social networking sites to grieve,reports the Associated Press "These are places where people in many ways lived their lives online," said Amanda Lenhart, a...
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- IL Senate wants to ban MySpace from schools
- The Illinois Senate is extending its effort to protect children from sexual predators by banning MySpace from schools and libraries, reports the Chicago Tribune. Critics of the proposed legislation say that that banning those sites would affect those who cant afford the Internet at home, and schools already have...
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Parent suit against MySpace dismissed
- A suit brought by the family of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by someone she met on MySpace has been dismissed by a federal court, reports Reuters News Service. Judge Sam Sparks of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas granted MySpaces motion to...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- MySpace experiments with video censoring software
- Bowing to pressure from media conglomerates and copyright holders to stop the posting of copyrighted material, MySpace has announced it will experiment with a new video-filtering system reports the Washington Post. MySpace is joining forces with software company Audible Magic Corp., which owns the rights to a system that...
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- MySpace rolls out Zephyr to protect kids, hold off critics
- According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, parents of MySpace users are a little closer to being able to keep tabs on some of the information that teens post on the popular social networking site, reports Reuters. Due to government pressure, MySpace announced that parents will soon...
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Study: Kids are acting more responsibly on MySpace
- All the publicity about teenagers posting private information on MySpace must be sinking in. A new study showed that most underage users of the social networkng site arent posting personal information or photos that could attract pedophiles, reports Reuters. Although the study concluded that a good percentage of underage...
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Think twice before you post that pic on your MySpace
- Words of warning about the dangers of social networks. Steve Kerrison writes on the Hexus Community that by posting personal details on social networks, students are creating great risks of identity theft, privacy loss, and embarassing themselves out of future job opportunities. He cites a warning by Prof....
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- MySpace unveils new cybersafety feature
- Under increasing pressure to deal with the presence of sexual predators and young children on MySpace, the NewsCorp-owned social networking wunkerkind will soon unveil a new safety feature called Sentinel Safe, Reuters reports. Business analysts say the the personal safety of its online users as well as the...
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- School gangs use MySpace to mark off Web territory
- High schools have always struggled to find ways to curb school violence but the advent of MySpace seems to have only widened gang turf wars, reports The Baltimore Sun. At Annapolis High School in Baltimore, students on MySpace this week revealed photos of students and ex-students holding weapons and...
- Blog posts 2006-11-24
- MySpace goes after European teens
- MySpace, the preferred social networking site for teens, is aggressively pursuing the overseas market but do Europeans socially network the same way, asks The New York Times. Like every good capitalist corporation, MySpace is attempting to test the overseas waters by opening public test pages for Germany and France....
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
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- Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate
- Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Shock Horror 'Social Media': Who Will Save/Train the Children?
- An interesting US national poll from Common Sense Media asking 'is social networking changing childhood?' opens up some wider issues. Common sense media suggest their poll... ...illustrates a continuing disconnect between parents and kids when it comes to kids’ digital lives....
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- HiMyTribe helps iPhone, iPod touch users network with GPS [review]
- For the last couple of weeks I've been playing with Never Alone Anymore's HiMyTribe iPhone/iPod touch app, which lets users network for business or pleasure using the device's built-in GPS functionality. A social networking tool, HiMyTribe fuses aspects of Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it
- I have mentioned a few times before my somewhat controversial view on Internet piracy - the end-user downloading (and uploading, to some extent) of mostly videos, music files, software - and the issues which surround it. As this generation of students are the forerunners of the technological age, born into...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Does Ashton Kutcher kill Twitter's credibility?
- So Ashton Kutcher beat CNN to a million followers. Great. One more reason for Twitter to make it into the news lately. This is all well and good except I'm wasting my breath talking about how useful Twitter could be in a classroom and all people are thinking...
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Students sue over "sexting" case
- Students sue over "sexting" caseAmster, Amster, d@m-d@m-d@mCould it be that puritanical American society is becoming closer to European society? Every new generation seems to be less conservative and more willing to explore/experiment. The "free love" of the 1960's is a good example of this behavior.Kids today are realizing just how...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Facebook slammed, Google and Apple continue to get free pass?
- Facebook slammed, Google and Apple continue to get free pass?Errrr, ABM anyone?All we are seeing is the just desserts that Microsoft so well deserve after years and years of lies, theft, abuse, anti-competitive behaviour, shoddy products, arrogance, lack of regard for the consumer, too much sleeping with the shareholders instead...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
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