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May 2009
- Craigslist Sues SC AG to Stop Charges
  
  State (Columbia, SC) | May 20, 09 5:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Craigslist has filed federal suit against South Carolina’s attorney general to stop him from charging company executives with breaking state prostitution and obscenity laws. AG Henry McMaster called the site’s move a victory, saying “it shows that Craigslist is taking the matter seriously for the first time,” the State reports. “Overnight they have removed the erotic services section.” More »
- Health Group Posts Graphic YouTube Vid of Birthing Teen
  
  Daily Mail (UK) | May 19, 09 4:54 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A British National Health Service trust posted a controversial staged video on YouTube showing a teenager giving birth amid a pack of yelling high schoolers as a way to scare girls about pregnancy, reports the Daily Mail . The video shows a teen, played by an actress, giving birth on a sports field with the help of a friend whose face is smeared with blood. More »
- Craigslist to SC AG: Apologize, and Back Off
  
  Craigslist | May 18, 09 12:49 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Craigslist is due an apology from South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, the site’s CEO writes on his company blog, after threatening “unwarranted and unconstitutional charges against us that are clearly barred by federal law.” What’s more, Jim Buckmaster charges, Craigslist isn’t the only outlet running the “adult services” ads McMaster targeted—asking if he’ll go after the CEOs of AT&T, Microsoft, and the South Carolina newspapers he’ll need in his next campaign. More »
- Guatemalan Jailed for Tweeting Dissent
  
  Guardian (UK) | May 16, 09 1:23 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Guatemalan authorities have arrested an IT worker who urged others on Twitter to withdraw their money from a state-run bank at the center of a murder controversy, the Guardian reports. “First concrete action should be (to) remove cash from Banrural and bankrupt the bank of the corrupt,” read the offending Tweet. The man is being held on $6,500 bail on charges of "inciting financial panic." More »
- Lynch Unveils 121-Part Web Interview Project
  
  The Wrap | May 16, 09 12:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Director David Lynch will debut his multipart documentary Interview Project on his website June 1, the Wrap reports. The project consists of 121 three- to five-minute interviews with regular folks across America. A new one will be rolled out every few days over the course of a year. Lynch sent a team of filmmakers on a “road trip” to find subjects, armed with a general questionnaire. Lynch himself will introduce each episode. More »
- Google, Times Brainstorm New Advertising Models
  
  Business Insider | May 14, 09 12:34 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Google won’t buy the New York Times , but the companies are discussing novel ways the search giant can help the newspaper stay afloat, the Business Insider reports. Sources say one idea is for Google to split advertising revenue it takes from sites hosting Times content with the paper. Another, more far-fetched scheme has Google helping the Times embed adverting content in text so it survives reproduction elsewhere. More »
- Kutcher Punks Turner, CNN
  
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution | May 14, 09 12:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ashton Kutcher came through on his promise to punk CNN and founder Ted Turner last night after beating the network in the race to 1 million Twitter followers, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The actor had promised to “ding-dong-ditch” Turner, and the execution went something like this: Assemble fans, a truckload of Ding Dong snack cakes, and a big bell outside Turner’s home. Ring bell. But wait, there’s more. More »
- Ill. Sheriff: New Craigslist an Improvement
  
  Chicago Tribune | May 14, 09 9:26 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Illinois sheriff who pushed Craigslist to dump its “erotic services” section says the replacement, now called “adult services,” is a step in the right direction, the Chicago Tribune reports. “The postings are definitely toned down a lot. My goal was to get the over-the-top stuff off,” Cook County's Tom Dart said. “They've done that.” Explicit photos, he said, are “the big thing,” and the latest ones seem more appropriate. More »
- Obit Editors Fall for Fake Wikipedia Quote
  
  Associated Press | May 11, 09 3:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An Irish college student managed to prank the world media in an attempt to illustrate lax fact-checking in today’s 24-hour news cycle, the AP reports. When French composer Maurice Jarre died March 28, Shane Fitzgerald fabricated a delicious quote and put it on the Jarre Wikipedia page. The citizen editors on the site repeatedly caught the unattributed utterance; not so dozens of news outlets. More »
- 'News Games' Spark Hits and Heat Online
  
  CNET | May 8, 09 7:43 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Readers who find Newser too challenging can rest their brains with online games that play out major news events. Often linked via social networking sites, millions of Web surfers are killing pig-like viruses, tossing shoes at President Bush, or landing a plane in the Hudson River in popular Flash games. It's also fairly easy to make one, and even sell it on eBay, CNET reports. More »
- Monopoly Cops May Find Google Too Popular to Bust
  
  MarketWatch | May 7, 09 1:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The government is finally getting wise to the fact that Google holds a monopoly on Internet advertising, and has launched two antitrust investigations, Therese Poletti writes for MarketWatch. Google is “becoming almost a privatized version of the dreaded Big Brother from George Orwell's 1984 ,” Poletti writes, worse even than the threat Microsoft posed in the 1990s. But satisfied users might not care. More »
- Keyboard Cat: Web's Swine Flu
  
  Butter Team | May 5, 09 3:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - While swine flu sweeps the world, a YouTube meme is sweeping the Web with nearly equal virulence, Butter Team blogger Z reports: Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat. Amateur video artists splice fail-type situations—guy falling down escalator, Miss South Carolina—with a clip of a keyboard-playing cat, and the kitty music and visuals fade in over the embarrassing scene, as if playing it off stage. More »
April 2009
- From TV News to R&B Hit
  
  Time | Apr 30, 09 11:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - If you've ever thought the TV news needed a little something extra, meet Michael Gregory. The 24-year-old Brooklyn musician has taken YouTube by storm by mashing up the news into a faux-R&B track with the use of Auto-Tune, Time reports. The software designed to correct pitch—which can also make humans sound like sexy robots—has been heard on songs as diverse as Cher’s Believe and numerous numbers by Akon and T-Pain, among others. More »
- Minn. Asks ISPs to Block Gambling Sites
  
  Minneapolis Star Tribune | Apr 29, 09 2:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Minnesota wants Internet providers who serve customers in the state to block access to Internet gambling sites, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Officials say the practice is illegal in the state, but how prevalent it is is unclear. “It's hard to know that," a gambling regulator said. “I can't tell you if it's one or 500,000. My only concern is that it's unlawful.” More »
- Facebook's Goal: 'Blowing Up the Browser'
  
  Time | Apr 28, 09 4:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Facebook has opened its user “feeds” to widget developers, paving the way to a new existence in the decentralized, cross-platform “AfterWeb,” Josh Quittner writes in Time . Though the move is seen by some as a counter to rival Twitter, which can already be accessed in myriad ways, Quittner sees a more radical rationale. Facebook is “blowing up the browser,” he writes. More »
- Cardinal to Catholics: Tweet Your Prayers
  
  Times (UK) | Apr 27, 09 3:41 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ireland’s Catholic leader is urging the faithful to engage social networking to spread the word of God, the Times reports. “Make someone the gift of a prayer through text, Twitter, or e-mail every day,” Cardinal Sean Brady said. “Such a sea of prayer is sure to strengthen our sense of solidarity with one another and remind those who receive them that others really do care.” More »
- Twitter Amplifies Swine Flu Fear
  
  InfoWorld | Apr 27, 09 2:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Twitter and other social networks are creating a swine-flu panic out of a molehill with their instantaneous updates, Robert X. Cringely writes for InfoWorld. The quick flow of less-than-dependable information means “people with head colds decide they're really dying from a porcine-borne bug and flood emergency rooms.” And such a strain of internet-enabled paranoia could be a boon for cyberterrorists. More »
- Hackers Cook Time 's Most- Influential Poll; Mag Shrugs
  
  TechCrunch | Apr 27, 09 1:53 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The results of Time ’s online “world’s most influential person” poll have fallen victim to shenanigans, TechCrunch reports. Moot, leader of the devious web forum 4Chan, sits atop Time ’s leaderboard, above Barack Obama and other usual suspects. And the first letters of the top 20 spell out “Marblecake Also the Game”—"marblecake" being both “lewd sexual reference” and online shorthand. More »
- YouTube Could Take Down Your Internet
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Apr 26, 09 2:46 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Watching those Susan Boyle and laughing baby clips on YouTube may soon come with a price: slower, shaky Internet connections, the Telegraph reports. Experts warn of a “brownout,” caused by outdated web systems unable to keep pace with surging online use of video sites, that will paralyze computers, threaten the economy, and leave the Internet an “unreliable toy.” More »
- First Twitter Arrest: FBI Nabs Man Posting Threats
  
  Wired | Apr 25, 09 11:47 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Another Twitter first: An Oklahoma City man has been arrested by the FBI after tweeting threats of a bloody rampage against the government at last week’s "tea party” in that city, Wired reports. “START THE KILLING NOW! I am willing to be the FIRST DEATH!” wrote Daniel Knight Hayden. Agents arrested Hayden the day of the event and charged him with making interstate threats. He's in a halfway house pending trial. More »

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