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Richard Poplawski: The Pittsburgh Stanton Heights killer
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... 
Steal Your Face: Lawsuits Increase over Fake Social Networking Profiles
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
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Vancouver police recruit with YouTube and Facebook
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...
Personalized web ads are creepy: poll
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...
Fans Search Bands on Wikipedia, Not Myspace
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...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Report: CNN citizen journalism site close to launch
"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...
Hundreds of Thousands of Private MySpace Photos Leaked
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
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Danger:Your 'Footprint' on the Internet Forever
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... 
Election on The Net
"The Web on the Candidates * 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....
created by vanityemailaddress | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Private security team hired by Kate and Gerry McCann for secret investigation
"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...
All UK 'must be on DNA database'
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...
Don't be alarmed: 29,000 sex offenders on MySpace
"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...
US town set to ban saggy trousers
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...
... And Stay Down! (MySpace Embraces Takedown Tech)
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
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