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DeKalb County authorities have found two missing sisters who were reported missing from their father's Stone Mountain apartment.

In a move that will help Samsung increase its presence in location-based services and mobile social networking, the company announced a multi-year deal with GyPSii.

Published: Monday, July 28, 2008 at 7:05 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, July 28, 2008 at 7:05 p.m. Karaoke and Elvis: a match made in Graceland and MySpace.

Anti-knife crime campaigners have attacked the social networking website Facebook today for allowing a "disgusting" knifing game.

Don't know how to send large files? Want to send private notes to other people? Need to manage projects or to have video conferences with your team? This week Robin and I have discovered eight fantastic online collaboration tools that can really answer your questions. Check them out! Photo credit: Kuzma Here the selected online collaboration tools for this week:

1. StreamFile: Send any file up to 2GB to any email address
2. Teamness: Assign tasks, share files and manage your team online
3. PalBee.com: Have video conferences with up to 10 people
4. Appswave: Video conference, instant message and share your files with other people
5. Privnote: Send notes that will self destruct after being read
6. Tweetparty: Create messaging groups with your Twitter account
7. Dexrex: Store all of your instant messaging sessions online
8. Neos MT: Connect to all major instant messaging networks with one single client

The explosion of Web 2.0 has impacted the way people gather information and communicate. Large audiences around the world, as well as those with very specific interests, have equal access to information through social networks, virtual worlds and video sharing sites.

The victim of an online vendetta has won a libel case. Amol Rajan knows just how much damage can be done Friday, 25 July 2008 Glynn Griffiths The Independent's Amol Rajan was the victim of a fake Facebook ...

BEREA, Ohio : Books are not Nadia Konyk's thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest.

Tributes began flowing yesterday for a 15-year-old boy killed when he was buried under searing-hot asphalt on a jobsite the day before.

A teenager faces more time than usual in juvenile detention for his attitude after pleading guilty to involvement in the rape of a 16-year-old girl with three other teenagers.

The share of US visits to social-networking sites increased 7 percent in June 2008 from May but has decreased 19 percent year-over-year, though the social-network category is averaging about 6 percent of all US ...

The share of US visits to social-networking sites increased 7 percent in June 2008 from May but has decreased 19 percent year-over-year, though the social-network category is averaging about 6 percent of all US ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will announce plans to expand its relationship with online social network Facebook to provide web search and search advertising, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

The expanded deal follows Microsoft's decision not pursue a takeover of Yahoo Inc to bolster its online search and advertising business as it tries to compete with Internet leader Google Inc.

Microsoft bought a 1.6 percent stake in fast-growing Facebook for $240 million in October, beating out Google in the investment. At the time, it reached an exclusive deal to sell ads on Facebook outside of the United States.

"Just as literacy is a skill that equips one to understand and communicate through language, media literacy is a skill that equips students to understand and communicate through media."

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"Media literacy (classes) provide students with skills, tools, insights, and a vocabulary to understand the important role the media play in shaping, reflecting, and sometimes subverting our social realities." (Naomi Rockler- Gladen)

"Two seemingly contradictory trends are shaping the current media landscape: on the one hand, new media technologies have lowered production and distribution costs, expanded the range of available delivery channels, and enabled consumers to archive, annotate, appropriate, and re-circulate media content. At the same time, there has been an alarming concentration of the ownership of mainstream commercial media, with a small handful of multinational media conglomerates dominating all sectors of the entertainment industry. No one seems capable of describing both sets of changes at the same time, let alone show how they impact each other. Some fear that media is out of control, others that it is too controlled. Some see a world without gatekeepers, others a world where gatekeepers have unprecedented power." (Henry Jenkins)

Like every week, George Siemens, is your expert guide on the latest trends, changes and announcements transforming the world of media but with an eye that doesn't pay too much attention to the financial backing or to the possible IPO but focuses exclusively on the relevance and impact that these changes will have on our ability to learn and change this world in the direction we want. Here his digest for this week:

Internap Network Services Corporation , a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today that Batanga, Inc., the leading next-generation Hispanic media company reaching US Hispanics, ...