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The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ~Jon Stewart

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April 2008
- Ditch the Assistant, Organize Online
  
  newser | ComputerWorld | Apr 14, 08 12:50 PM CDT
  
  Paper is so last century. PC World has tracked down websites—like one that puts phone dictations on Google Calendar—that best support your OCD ... or totally forgetful ... nature: Remember the Milk is one intense task manager: It even lets others—say, your boss—add items to your "honey-do" list. Never forget another brilliant idea; text it to Backpack. More »
- How to Write 200,000 Books Without Breaking a Sweat
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 14, 08 11:34 AM CDT
  
  Philip Parker calls himself “the most published author in the history of the planet,” but he doesn’t actually write any books; his computers do. Parker has created a series of algorithms that allow computers to cull publicly available information from the web and compile it into books on obscure topics, the New York Times reports. Need The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs ? Parker has you covered. More »
- YouTube clip lands flag-stealing Britons in trouble
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Apr 14, 08
  
  A video posted by police on YouTube helped to trace two Englishmen who made off with flags flying in the Wyoming town of Jackson in honour of a fallen American soldier.The tourists took the two flags - the Stars and Stripes and a Wyoming state flag - from their pole in Jackson in the early morning of March 20 in what was an unfortunate prank after a night of drinking.A security camera shot the two men as they climbed up a snowy embankment to lower the flags, pulled them from the pole, and then stuffed them under their shirts and left.Police posted the video on YouTube in an effort to identify...
- Car Owner's Cyber Posse Nails Canadian Thief
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 13, 08 6:30 AM CDT
  
  A car thief in Calgary didn't count on rising to internet fame when he stole a rare Nissan Skyline GTR from a dealer, the New York Times reports. The owner posted a picture of the vehicle on an internet car lovers' forum and before long, his fellow forum members had not only spotted the car, they had photographed the suspect, found his details on Facebook, and called the cops. More »
- Israeli Army Gets Tough on Facebook Users
  
  newser | BBC | Apr 11, 08 5:52 PM CDT
  
  Israel is taking steps to neutralize its newest security threat: Facebook. The army is tightening rules on what soldiers can and can't post on the social-networking site, the BBC reports. Apparently, some were putting up photos of themselves posing with top-secret weaponry. "Most of the soldiers don't understand how much damage it may cause," said one Air Force official. More »
- Yahoo Merger Could Level Online Ad Market
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Apr 11, 08 3:57 PM CDT
  
  Winds of a Yahoo-Microsoft merger have sparked a “nuclear war” in the online-advertising world—and the Google-dominated market could soon see major changes, the Wall Street Journal reports. “Nothing short of a new world order in this space is up for grabs,” says an expert. As Yahoo and Microsoft mull joining forces with each other (or perhaps other partners), consolidation could create healthy competition. More »
- Web Trick Revives Rick Astley
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Apr 11, 08 3:42 PM CDT
  
  We’re never gonna give him up, even if we want to: ’80s pop sensation Rick Astley is an icon again thanks to “rickrolling,” the practice of tricking Internet users into watching a video of his hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” 18 million people have clicked links aimed elsewhere only to land on the Astley clip, the Times of London reports. More »
- Video-Beating Teens Could Face Life
  
  newser | CNN | Apr 11, 08 11:41 AM CDT
  
  The eight Florida teens who videotaped a half-hour beating of a classmate will be tried as adults and could face life behind bars if convicted, CNN reports. The suspects face felony kidnapping charges, and three also face witness tampering raps. They seemed remorseless, a sheriff said. “They were joking: ‘I guess we won’t get to go to the beach during spring break,'" he said. More »
- Fan Cams Change Players' Lives
  
  newser | MLB.com | Apr 11, 08 11:24 AM CDT
  
  The Information Age is great in a lot of ways, but when it comes maintaining the privacy of public figures, it can be a real hassle. Just ask Matt Leinart, Paul LoDuca, and countless other professional athletes who can tell you just how easy it is to have their most unguarded moments appear on the Net—and land them in trouble. More »
- Chirk gang set fire to boy in YouTube video
  
  eveningleader.co.uk | Apr 11, 08
  
  A group of youths from Chirk who set fire to one of their friends as a prank and posted the shocking footage on YouTube have been condemned by a fire chief.The shocking 32 second clip shows a group of youngsters from Chirk, near Wrexham, standing around another youth seated on a sofa who is set alight after apparently being doused with liquid from a canister.The youngster then desperately attempts to put the fire out while apparently crying out in pain. At one point another lad shouts: "He's on fire! Put him out!"The screen then goes dark but the youngster on fire can still be heard apparently...
- Internet Bigwigs Fight NY Law on Tracking Web Users
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Apr 10, 08 4:15 PM CDT
  
  Google, Yahoo and a bevy of Internet biggies have joined to fight a proposed New York state law that would limit their ability to collect information about people's web habits for advertisers, reports the Wall Street Journal . The coalition says the law would endanger the future of online advertising and “the availability of free content on the Internet.” More »
- Teenager's Beating Raises Cyberbully Fears
  
  newser | The Ledger | Apr 10, 08 5:20 AM CDT
  
  Parents and educators are still puzzling over how a dispute among girls got so out of hand that it ended with six Florida cheerleaders giving a high school classmate a concussion in a vicious beating. Teen bullying is nothing new but the fact that the feud started on MySpace and ended up with a video posted on You Tube highlights new worries about cyberbullying, the Lakeland Ledger writes. More »
- Post to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter In One Shot
  
  newser | MIT Technology Review | Apr 9, 08 8:15 PM CDT
  
  Several new services join personal Internet feeds into a single space, meaning you don’t have to re-post the same new information to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The CEO of Seesmic, a video-conversation service, says it’s frustrating to pick through 10 different social networks—and his company has just bought Twhirl, which allows users to post on three different feeds at once, Technology Review reports. More »
- How a Facebook Post Derailed a Football Player's Life
  
  newser | Washington Post | Apr 9, 08 9:01 AM CDT
  
  For about 90 minutes, his Facebook status read: “Lucas Caparelli: recommends not going to class on Wednesday because he is going to blow up campus. ” In those 90 minutes, Caparelli went from a highly-recruited running back to a persona non grata suspended by Wake Forest. “It was a dumb, immature, ignorant joke, but to me, it was a joke,” Caparelli told the Washington Post . More »
- Teens Tape Beating for Web
  
  newser | The Ledger | Apr 8, 08 8:47 PM CDT
  
  Six girls aged 14 to 17 lured another teen to a home, beat her and videotaped the ambush to put it on the Internet, Florida police say. The 16-year-old victim is recovering from a concussion and hasn't fully regained her vision. Her assailants, with whom she'd been feuding online, may be charged as adults with battery and false imprisonment, the Lakeland Ledger reports. More »
- Google Tracking Refugees
  
  newser | Associated Press | Apr 8, 08 5:45 PM CDT
  
  A new feature allows Google Earth users to take a tour of the world’s refugee hotspots, with images of camps supplemented by information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the AP reports. The search titan has greatly improved the available resolution in its satellite photos of refugee areas—for example, individual tents are visible in a Chadian camp for Darfur’s displaced. More »
- Facebook and Rival Settling Origins Lawsuit
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 7, 08 2:01 PM CDT
  
  Pending lawsuits between Facebook and rival social networking site ConnectU will be settled, a source tells the New York Times . The founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas back when both sites were in their infancy, and the Facebook CEO filed a countersuit against his former Harvard classmates. Terms of the settlement haven't been disclosed. More »
- Pavarotti Lipsynched Last Performance
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Apr 7, 08 9:02 AM CDT
  
  Lipsynching isn't just for neophytes like Nikki Hilton—none other than tenor Luciano Pavarotti faked his way through his final public performance at the opening of the Turin Winter Olympics, the Guardian reports. In a new book, Pavarotti's conductor and pianist claims that he recorded the cancer-stricken tenor and the orchestra, and used video trickery to pull the ruse off before millions of TV viewers. More »
- Web Videos May Be Ad Gold Mine
  
  newser | USA Today | Apr 4, 08 3:12 PM CDT
  
  TV networks, major news organizations, and independent producers are all scrambling to create Web videos that will let them snag a portion of the ad dollars flowing online. Ad spending on Internet videos will grow to $4.3 billion by 2011, say researchers—a 455% increase over today. "It's growing faster than any other advertising category," an NBC Universal exec tells USA Today . More »
- Whew! Google Saved by the Highest Bidder
  
  newser | New York Times | Apr 4, 08 1:02 PM CDT
  
  Google nearly became the unenthused owner of a $4.71 billion slice of wireless airwaves in a recent Federal Communications Commission auction, the New York Times reports. Its bid was part of a deal with the FCC to open some spectrum to third-party services, but for much of the bidding, Google had the top price—until Verizon swooped in with the $4.74 billion winner. More »

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