They never signed up for it. But the survivors of the dot-com boom and bust got a crash course in weathering the fallout from an economic collapse.
WASHINGTON - President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, is a proud and accomplished Latina.
Facebook does a deal with a group of Russian investors. All of a sudden the social networking company is valued $10 billion.
Media literacy is an expanded information and communication skill that is responsive to the changing nature of information in our society. It addresses the skills students need to be taught in school, the competencies citizens must have as we consume information in our homes and living rooms, and the abilities workers must have as we move toward the 21st century and the challenges of a global economy. (Source: Telemedium)
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Inside this Media Literacy Digest:
This weekly digest takes you to places, facts and resources that help you make greater sense of the increasing relevance that new technologies and media are having on the way you learn.
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The Taliban “never lie.” So says one of the insurgent group’s usual spokesmen, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, speaking via cellphone recently from an undisclosed location.
After having a mastectomy, Sharon Adams decided to raise awareness of breast cancer by posting photographs of her scar on Facebook.
After a fairly long and troubled relationship, Time Warner Inc. and AOL LLC are calling it quits .
Demi Moore and husband Ashton Kutcher are threatening to quit Twitter over reports of a new reality TV show being made about the site.
Now that the megapixel race is over, digicam makers are resorting to packing novel features into their shooters.
A man taken into custody in Ohio is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl from New York he met on a social networking Web site.
Cellphone records and contacts from the Bebo social networking site featured on day seven of the trial of Dean Stewart Cameron, charged with the murder of Papanui teenager Marie Davis.
A history of childhood abuse and use of a provocative online identity increase the risk that girls will be victimized by someone they meet on the Internet, according to a study appearing in the June issue of Pediatrics.
The July sentencing of a Missouri mom convicted for her part in an Internet hoax that led to a teenager’s suicide may disappoint those looking for justice.
Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody’s doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series.
In the age of sharing, collaboration and real-time communications, wouldn’t it be fantastic if anyone had the opportunity to present her ideas live to a real, sizable public audience? Why isn’t it there yet a virtual presenter soapbox open to everyone?
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After the likes of Flickr (for images), YouTube (for videos), Slideshare (for slide presentations) why isn’t there a public, open service that provides a live podium and a matching audience for those with great ideas to share?
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if you could just go to such an online service and be provided with an easy-to-use toolset of communication, collaboration, presentation and promotion tools to make your voice be heard?
Why not support and leverage the growing crowd of live presenters and the valuable engagement, the attention, the following and the unique content that they could generate?
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