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I'm so impressed that there is an artist in residence at the actual San Francisco Waste and Recycling center (or something to that affect). When I first saw some pictures at Laughing Squid I thought he was referring to a gallery called "Dump".

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MSNBC.com Teen describes role in MySpace hoax Says mother of a friend was more active in the ruse than she has admitted The Associated Press updated 6:24 p.m. PT, Tues., April. 1, 2008 DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Mo. - A teenager involved in an Internet hoax blamed for a 13-year-old girl's suicide said Tuesday that the mother of a friend was more active in the ruse than she has admitted. Ashley Grills told ABC's "Good Morning America" that Lori Drew called it "a good idea" when Grills and Drew's daughter suggested communicating with Megan Meier over the Internet to see what Megan was saying about the daughter, a former friend. Megan, of the suburban St. Louis town of Dardenne Prairie, hanged herself in October 2006, after mean-spirited online comments from what she thought was a boy she had befriended, "Josh Evans" and others. The boy was fictional. Grills, 19, said she created a false MySpace profile of Josh Evans and even found a picture of a good-l...

MSNBC.com Growing up online: Is your teen baring all? Coming of age in the wired world is entirely different from what you knew By Dr. Laura Berman TODAYShow.com contributor updated 9:49 a.m. PT, Tues., April. 29, 2008 Sexual experimentation has always been a part of adolescence, but in previous years it was confided to games of Spin the Bottle or Seven Minutes in Heaven. However, thanks to the Internet and the development of recent technology like camera phones, a new generation of teens is experimenting with sexuality in a whole new way. Their first forays into sexuality no longer occur on a small scale within a circle of peers, but on a very large one, such as on MySpace and Facebook. From racy pictures posted on these online social networks to sexy photos being sent on camera phones, teens are making their first sexual decisions with an audience of thousands. Even Disney star Miley Cyrus has received a barrage of press lately for photos that have surfaced on the Web which featu...

Summize lets you search on a word and it brings up the recent tweets which has that word. It also offers "Trending Topics" which let you know which topics are hot at that particular moment. It's just one of a family of products from the Summize labs. Others are Realtime Sentiment where you input a word and the program reports how those talking about that subject feel about the word. For instance I put in "love" and it reported that the prevalent attitude toward this word was "great" (the highest grade). I put in "hate crimes" and the attitude was wretched, the worst grade. Reviews, potentially very interesting, it summarizes attitudes and opinions from millions upon millions of comments throughout the web. (47,056,81 at this particular time). You can query for movies, books, music and interesting data magically appears. This is the search result for Madonna it provides opinions on all her products and even shows which bloggers are t...

eMarketer projects that by 2012, 50% of the online population or 108.5 million people will be creating UGC (User Generated Content). This includes audio, photos, personal blogs, personal web sites, online bulletin board postings, personal profiles in social networks or virtual worlds and / or customer reviews on sites like Yelp! The full report costs $695 and is available at eMarketer.

Variety : Media Titans Focusing on Ubiquity vs. Privacy LA Times : Hulu Now Playing on YouTube Social Times : MySpace Charging Applications for Prominent Display MediaPost : ATT&T's Mobile TV Initiative (CNN, Sony Pix, Concerts, etc.) eMarketer: HipHop's Youth Influencers