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SOCIAL networking site Facebook could be closed down if legal action by a rival site is successful.

The City of Plano hosted its annual Environmental Community Awards Thursday at the Conference Center at Collin County Community College/Spring Creek.

Colbie Caillat delivers an amazing live performance in her Stripped debut. Listen to the hot new artist sing hits from her debut album, including "Bubbly" and aLauryn Hill cover, "Tell Him." ... Colbie Caillat ...

A majority of Baby Boomer 'net users in the US have visited sites that offer streaming or downloadable video, while 41 percent have visited online social networks, according to a report from The NPD Group - via ...

MySpace announced Friday that the US presidential debates will be streamed online in Spanish as well as English to reach a key Hispanic voting bloc via the Internet.

RDATE:25092008 Bracknell, UK -- Maximizer Software , a leading provider of simple, accessible customer relationship management solutions, today announced the launch of Maximizer CRM Central , an online ...

MySpace's new music service managed to bring major record labels together, but a group that licenses song rights for thousands of independent labels feels left out and angry, partly because indie musicians were ...

Is virtual learning better than classroom face-to-face instruction? Are the benefits for learning at a distance as effective as those obtainable from a traditional in-class curriculum? Tough to say. Different researchers report different experiences and given sometimes the shallowness of their investigation or the limited numbers on which this data is often based, it is wise to move cautiously when making important claims relative to the new emerging learning paradigms. Photo credit: Teemu Arina Skepticism, questioning, verification and analysis of multiple diverse sources and research data, remains the best way to make sense of any similar fast changing topic as learning is today. And this is exactly what I would think is most needed in our present educational institutions: tangible time and specialized resources devoted to grow your personal analysis and information investigation skills. How to verify information, where to find alternative sources, how to check for plagiarism, how to question and check for uncorroborated claims, and more. But while our educational system still ponders and evaluates whether change is part of its future, and whether to replace notionistic lectures with explorative and output-focused group investigations, what you and I can keep doing, is to research and evaluate new information by always utilizing some degree of conscious, critical analysis. Much like educational technologies expert George Siemens does, by bringing to you this weekly digest of stories, issues, and resources he has found in his never-ending journey to make sense of new media technologies and of the fast changing times we're living in. Here all the details:

The House on Friday passed by 418-0 a measure clarifying that images obtained over the Internet were subject to federal interstate commerce laws.

Some Facebook members don't even have 100 friends. Scott Bradley once made that many in a day.

Google 's social networking site Orkut has blocked access to a community on the site that supports the Indian Mujahideen, the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for bomb blasts in various Indian cities ...

Have you had it with all the Facebook 'be my friend' nonsense? It really is silly, don't you think? All those questions, confirmations, writing on your 'wall,' shared photos and the like.

TOKYO : Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's. It's got pictures of the funky Tokyoite modeling the clothes she designs in ...

As perhaps the most talked about snafu since Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch, the new Facebook has been subject to the derisive comments of college students everywhere.

Elmo Keep and, inset, her namesake. Asher Moses September 25, 2008 - 11:57AM Facebook users with even slightly unusual names beware: your account can be suspended by the site's draconian administrators without ...