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Citizendium, the peer-reviewed "progressive fork" of Wikipedia, has opened for business. It will be worth watching to see whether the encyclopedia's embrace of soft hierarchy -- unlike Wikipedia, Citizendium requires contributors to identify themselves, and it lets a panel of scholars make final decisions on edits -- slows its growth.
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Facebook and other social networks like MySpace have transformed the social lives of teenagers in many ways, and that includes how they make the transition from high school to college. Hundreds of colleges have their own Class of 2011 groups on Facebook. They are generally not formally affiliated with the universities and are begun by students who want to connect with classmates months before they set foot on campus.
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A Facebook group called “White Nation,” which featured a graphic of a black infant in handcuffs and the caption, “Arrest black babies before they become criminals,” has sparked outrage on the campus of the University of Southern California
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Cyber bullies are even forcing their girlfriends to undress in front of webcams and then sharing the images with others online. "Girls might send it to their boyfriend and she is pressured to do it thinking he's just going to see it. So she gives in and the next thing you know it's all over (the place)."
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"e-Rate: 10 Years of Connecting Kids and Community" indicates that e-Rate-supported connectivity now allows 100 percent of public libraries to provide free internet access to communities, and it credits the e-Rate with increasing the number of public-school classrooms with internet access from 14 percent in 1996 to 95 percent in 2005. However, the report notes there is still work to be done.
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The Internet discussion board for current and prospective law students is one of several boards hosted by AutoAdmit. It bills itself as “the most prestigious law-school discussion board in the world.” But it also contains postings that degrade individual students, with offensive comments that include sexual references and racist jabs.
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A school board trustee has come under fire for taking legal action against an anonymous blogger "Orthomom" who has written a number of scathing criticisms on her blog about the trustee's lack of support for private school students. Many support Orthomom's right to free speech. My question is, does she have any responsibility to reveal her identity, rather than attacking the trustee anonymously?
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“Can large groups of widely scattered people, working together voluntarily on the net, report on something happening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely, while hitting high standards in truth, accuracy and free expression?”
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Is your online social life suffering? Having problems getting rid of that pesky friend on MySpace or Facebook? Want to give Tom the boot, but are afraid of hurting his feelings? Then this is the place for you. BreakYourSpace is a unique service that specializes in breaking up with your online friends.
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Digg's system works only so long as the crowds on Digg can be trusted.
The author created a low-quality story and hired a Digg-gaming service called User/Submitter to buy votes. Digg's system works only so long as the crowds on Digg can be trusted. Whether they can be trusted in the long term remains to be seen, given the incentives built into the system for voting on the most popular stories.
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Citizendium, the peer-reviewed "progressive fork" of Wikipedia, has opened for business. It will be worth watching to see whether the encyclopedia's embrace of soft hierarchy -- unlike Wikipedia, Citizendium requires contributors to identify themselves, and it lets a panel of scholars make final decisions on edits -- slows its growth.
Is your online social life suffering? Having problems getting rid of that pesky friend on MySpace or Facebook? Want to give Tom the boot, but are afraid of hurting his feelings? Then this is the place for you. BreakYourSpace is a unique service that specializes in breaking up with your online friends.
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