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Social networking & suicide

September 7th, 2006 by Administrator

Some see social networking about the death of a friend or family member cathartic. Some as a means of detecting suicidal tendencies. Others are concerned it might reinforce such tendencies. In any case, “the world’s first generation to double-click its way through elementary school is using the Web to stay connected — even in death,” reports the St. Petersburg Times. Dr. Ilene Berson and other faculty…

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Create-your-own social network

September 7th, 2006 by Administrator
Almost. But it's only a matter of time. It started at the more professional, geeky level with online publishing tools. The same with Web publishing. Both got so easy that anyone could "publish" with no technical know-how. It's also happening with online "radio," or podcasting. And so it will go with social networking. Soon we'll be able to create our own social networks (we actually are now, sort of,...
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How legal is it?

September 7th, 2006 by Administrator
That probably sounds like a strange question just about everywhere but in the world of digital entertainment. The Los Angeles Times takes a sweeping snapshot of current thinking on the part of music consumers and copyright law experts. For example, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll found that "among teens ages 12 to 17 who were polled, 69% said they believed it was legal to copy a CD from a friend...
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Free books online

September 7th, 2006 by Administrator
Project Gutenberg was the first supplier of free out-of-copyright books on the Web and it's more comprehensive, but Google Book Search just made things easier – at least for when it has your book of choice. "Just one click and a PDF file of the book is on your desktop," reports The Guardian. "You can then either read it online (in which case you deserve to have it free), print it out page by page or...
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Monitoring MySpacers

September 7th, 2006 by Administrator
Monitoring with technology is not for everyone. But I hope we all agree that knowing what our kids are up to on the social Web is a good thing, just as knowing what they're up to socially in "real life" is. We ask them who they're going to the concert with Friday night, or whose driving after the party Saturday, why wouldn't we want to know who they hang out with online? The hands-down best way to...
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Not-so-virtual advertising

September 7th, 2006 by Administrator
Videogamers will soon be seeing – or interacting with – pretty sophisticated ads in their games. This is not the static product-placement advertising of the past, of course. These are being called "dynamic" ads "because they are built into the virtual landscape of the video games and can be updated by advertisers via the Internet," the San Jose Mercury News reports. Just as in real life, gamers will...
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Mini music stores at MySpace

September 7th, 2006 by Administrator
This is great news for musicians and more bad news for Tower Records. Not only can young musicians and garage bands introduce their music to millions of fans everywhere via MySpace, now they can sell it to them too – right from their own pages. "Assuming that the songs for sale do not violate a copyright, the artist or label can set a price and allow Web users to buy songs the way they might with services...
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