Social Blogging

"Everyone who joins knows this is a joke as is to be taken as such (sic)."

Website promoting drunk driving shocks victim's mom Gladys Shelstad, a MADD spokesman is outraged by an Edmonton-based Facebook group that encourages its members to participate in drunken driving games and ... via Edmonton Sun

"His statement the other day, 'I don't wear hats,' that will clearly be trumped by a picture of him wearing a hat"

After he was named the main suspect in 18 bank robberies in which the perpetrator wore hats as disguises, James Madison said in a jailhouse interview that he did not rob the banks and that he did not wear hats. via New Jersey News

The Bancroft family has controlled Dow Jones for more than 100 years Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has admitted it is now "highly unlikely" it will proceed with its $5bn offer for the Dow Jones media group. via BBC News

"And living with a monster from the age of 3 is something that you just don't recover from without professional help"

Even for seasoned detectives, the crime scene in an apartment last weekend was horrific: A man, gagged and handcuffed, had been killed and then castrated. via WNBC

"A lot of things will be discussed at Black Hat"

COMPUTER security wizards are gathering to share insights about threats ranging from cyber warfare to hacking Apple iPhones or MySpace website profile pages. via The Straits Times

"It is better to have some sort of verification on the front end and various forms of behavioral verification on the back end"

By Eric Auchard and Kenneth Li

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook came under fire on Monday from a state attorney general who accused the fast-growing social networking site of falling short in protecting young users from sexual predators on its site.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in an interview his office had learned of "at least three" convicted sex offenders on Facebook's site and that may be the "tip of the iceberg."

"These individuals are using their real names after convictions for felony sexual offenses," Blumenthal told Reuters. "There may be thousands or hundreds of thousands using aliases or false identities who have never been convicted." Read more

"Our position has hopefully now been validated but, as with any policy change, there will be those who would have preferred another policy. But I'm confident it will play out favorably."

By Staff Writer :: Filed Under>> Enterprise 2.0 Published: Jul 30. 2007 After months of grueling work and legal battles, the Open Source Initiative has officially approved the Common Public Attribution License ... via CMSWire

"And he's still remembered by everybody."

Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where reality blurs into fiction and the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind.

Allison Bauer left rainbows: Reds, yellows and blues, festooned across her MySpace profile in a collage of color. Before her corpse was pulled from the depths of an Oregon gorge on May 9, where police say she leapt to her death, she unwittingly wrote her own epitaph. Read more

Posted by Mike Slocombe on 30 July 2007 at 1:13 pm Tagged as: Legal , Music Illegal music downloads have soared to an all-time high, with more people than ever filling up their hard drives with MP3 booty ... via Digital-Lifestyles

"High school kids used to prepare fliers and pass them out at school and to their friends, and it wasn't uncommon for it to be blown out of proportion"

The problem of uninvited guests at parties has always been an issue. But when the party is announced on the World Wide Web, the problem can be much larger. via San Bernardino Co. Sun

"We're not investing a ton of energy in that. It's not a big part of our business."

RECORD labels big and small are working toward the goal of turning every social network profile, blog and fan site into a digital music storefront. via NEWS.com.au

"YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other"

By: Nicole Belle on Saturday, July 28th, 2007 at 6:31 PM - PDT Chicago Tribune : Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney traveled along the Interstate 35 corridor near the site of next month's straw poll ... via Crooks and Liars

Social networking startup Trusted Opinion has added Netflix Queuing to their recommendations focused offering. via NewsFactor Network

"Parents want more tools to protect their children on the Internet and there's still time for the Legislature to make North Carolina a leader in the fight against child predators"

Environmental advocates bit the bullet on a hotly debated energy bill, while House members balked at making tweens get permission to sign up for MySpace and landfill legislation continued its herky-jerky ... via HendersonvilleNews.com

JUST now, the hottest startup in Silicon Valley - minutely examined by bloggers, panted after by investors - is Pownce, but only a chosen few can try out its Web site. via Items dugg