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Psych prof Pennebaker says bloggers, who write for an audience, probably won't engage in the same level of emotional processing as they would if writing just for themselves... "More & more people believe they are entitled to behave according to their own values & not the norms prevailing in society," Aaron Ben-Ze'ev says. That means there is less of a need to keep a protected private self..." -
1voteFacebook, the dominant social-networking Web site for college students, is opening up its pages. The company, which has had a set format policy, said last week that it would allow anyone to add "widgets" to their pages: for example, music players, games, or collections of book reviews written by the page owner.
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1voteThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation boasted one of Second Life's most expansive commercially run islands, but that didn't stop an unidentified gang from laying waste to the digital plot of land.
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1voteRutgers University's Paul Robeson Library has produced a four-part video that tells students not to steal one another's work and warns them that they could receive a failing grade from a course or be expelled from the university if they are caught. It's a serious message but an amusing video, with a photograph of a bobblehead professor speaking in an exaggeratedly schoolmarmish tone to students, represented by 1950s-style headshots, who respond with gasps and bulging eyeballs
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1voteMySpace.com announced on Thursday that it will be hosting a series of so-called town hall events with many of the candidates who are vying for nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential primaries. The events are to be held on college campuses from September through December and will each feature one candidate. Viewers of the event Webcast will be able to submit their own questions through MySpace's instant-messaging client.
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1voteA student at Iowa Western Community College says he was expelled because he commented on his MySpace page that other students in his dormitory "needed to be shot."
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1voteViktor Mayer-Schönberger, a prof at Harvard’s Kennedy School, says in a “working paper” that the seemingly endless expansion of computers’ storage capacity means that more elements of our lives are being recorded, and more of the recordings are being saved. "If what we do can be held against us years later...the lack of forgetting could lead us to speak less freely and openly."
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1voteLast month, two Belgian publications reported that the Brussels police have begun an investigation into a citizen's allegations of rape -- in Second Life.
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