Richard Poplawski, the man who shot three police officers dead and wounded five today in Stanton Heights in Pittsburgh, is described by friends as a 'partier' and a 'guy in search of an understanding of politics, even a walking comedian'. He was however, paranoid about the...
created by Amy Judd | 39 wks ago | updated 39 wks ago 510 views | 20 recommendations | 3 comments
More and more teachers are taking legal action against students who dis them on Facebook and MySpace...We think of our teachers as "old", but they are the age we are now, teaching our kids, who are the same age we...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 381 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
A video called "The Promise" on their Facebook page is the best irony-free homage to policing I've seen. The music sounds like a Superman outtake."The Vancouver Police Department is hitting the Internet in its...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 480 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Remember that time you were innocently writing a gmail when you noticed all the ads on the page had to with knitting and soap collecting, your two favourite hobbies? Apparently you're not the only one to find that...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 296 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
You might be wondering why fans are searching bands' Wiki pages instead of their MySpace profiles, that is, until you find yourself looking for some actual information about an artist. I know it's cool to be a pop...
"CNN is close to expanding its "iReport" user-generated reporting initiative into a separate Web site, MediaWeek wrote Monday.
The new site, to be hosted at iReport.com, will be a repository for user-submitted news content--video, audio, and photos. Visitors can navigate...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago 348 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
About 500 thousand Private My Space photos were leaked onto the dowload service Bit Torrent Wired News is reporting. The leak occurred after a Wired reported on a security hole in My Space. Following that story...
created by Sudha Krishna | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 3386 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Today (25.11.2007) I found on Google News a post about how ”Blogs ‘could affect future jobs”. I know from my own experience of writing for my blog and for NowPublic, that the fine grained level of...
created by korzac | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1107 views | 17 recommendations | 6 comments
"The Web on the Candidates
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The New York Times’ Katherine Seelye profiles two online ventures — one new-ish, the other yet to be launched — that are trying to change the way politics is covered....
"A private security firm has been secretly investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann for four months because her parents feared that Portuguese police were failing to properly search for their daughter.
Control Risks Group (CRG) is believed to have been checking...
created by liamssoft | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 309 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The case for everyone's DNA in the UK to be on the national database is harmless to some and worrying to others. Would the Government approve of this before or after the general elections? I have no qualms with...
created by liamssoft | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 347 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"There are about 600,000 convicted sex offenders in the United States. As of this month, 29,000 of them had profiles on MySpace.
The number comes from a group of state attorneys general who threatened MySpace with...
created by pgaliba | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 260 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
US town set to ban saggy trousers
A man wearing low-slung trousers, exposing his underwear
Low-slung trousers are fashionable among some young people
A mayor in the US state of Louisiana says he will sign into law a proposal to make wearing saggy trousers an act of indecent...
The main problem with the automated copyright-enforcement technology discussed below is that it is unable to deal with contested copyright; once it makes an automated decision, there is no real dispute process, as...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 326 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
When every site wants to be the sole provider of your online media experience, it just leads to dogfights such as this."A blog from Photobucket's co-founder indicates that the image- and video-sharing site has ended an impasse with social-networking giant MySpace.
A conflict...