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Friends of Seattle resident Bryan Rutberg were alarmed to hear Bryan was in trouble overseas recently, and one sent money to help out.

An Ohio judge has dismissed a potential juror found to have written on the social networking site Facebook that jury duty was like "sitting in hell." Attorney Stan Chesley asked a Hamilton County judge last ...

PAST and present pupils of a Devon school have launched an online campaign against plans to reduce its annual intake.

These cross-platform IM apps let you use just one application to access your accounts from multiple IM networks The world of instant messaging is crowded and becoming even more so.

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Content-restriction concerns about Wikipedia, social connectivity, the benefit of video lectures in academic environments, are just some of the interesting topics covered inside this week edition of George Siemens' Media Literacy Digest. Photo credit: Teemu Arina In this issue:

• Educational technologies and media expert George Siemens highlights the recent news that Wikipedia is considering to apply some restriction to its content, in order to prevent sudden and misleading changes.
• Since content production on the Web is now as easy as snapping your fingers, the real concern is gradually shifting towards how to create and communicate effectively credibility and trustworthiness. Are you sure what you learn comes from trusted, reliable sources?
• The ability to develop a greater analytical approach to news consumption will likely become a vital asset for anyone needing to know rather than being entertained.

If you are curious about where the future is headed, open to ask more unchallenged questions, and ready to look at new discoveries and disruptive changes taking place at the crossroad between personal learning, business and media, this digest is a good place to start. Here all the details: Intro by Robin Good

Relatives of Kentuckians stuck without power or phones from the massive storms that devastated the state are using an online networking site to check on their loved ones.

MUSICIAN Mike Skinner had to be treated by paramedics after he was hurt while crowdsurfing at an East Anglian concert.

BLOGS It's no secret that President Barack Obama is the nation's most wired president.

It seems that everyone has a Facebook page these days, but you might want to be careful who you add as friends.

Back when he was campaigning for president, Barack Obama 's skillful use of Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook and YouTube enabled him to get his message out to new audiences of voters in an unprecedented ...

"New in Town" gives us Rene Zellweger as Lucy, a hard-driving Miami businesswoman transferred to icebound Minnesota, where she first looks down at the natives but learns to look up to them.

A British teenager was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for murdering a man just hours after posting a message on social networking website Facebook that he felt "like killin some1". Leon Craig ...

A Superior Court judge this morning cut six months off the sentence of a former Bryant University student who was convicted of drunken driving in a 2006 crash that severely injured a Lincoln woman.

The 3G SideKick LX started as just speculation over at TmoNews and then was confirmed over at Hiptop3 two days later with a little more information.