If there is one thing students and teachers despise it's clutter. One way teachers create clutter is asking students to print out a current event. Students print out weekly current events, read and summarize it, have it graded and then throw it out.

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Once a Facebook member, always a member. The Consumerist blog noticed Sunday that the social-networking giant had quietly made a change to its user Terms of Service (TOS) on Feb. 4.

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Shortly after 9 am on Oct 19, Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president during the taping of "Meet the Press" on NBC. Within minutes, the video was on the Web.

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The European Commission will roll out a range of initiatives in the coming months to promote the Internet of the Future, while remaining highly vigilant in protecting citizens and networks, Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding told EurActiv in an interview.

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A good sampling of Seattle's current tech scene.

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Can Web 2.0-style collaboration halt climate change? Well, not entirely, but it can certainly help.

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Shiny and glossy design elements are now officially outdated. Just like retro is becoming trendy again, grungy look appears to rapidly gain on popularity. And there is a damn good reason behind it.

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Del.icio.us Bans Search Engine Spiders

My friend, Colin Cochrane, was doing average goofing around on the internet when he discovered something strange. Forgetting that he had his User-Agent set to "Googlebot," due to recent troubleshooting, he was surprised when he tried to find a bookmark in his del.icio.us account.

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According to Ground Reports, 2008 will be the year citizen journalism evolves, after having cemented its establishment in 2007.

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A great new widget ot the is this one called socializer I have tested it so you can see my results at the link here or at

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A left-wing German politician files charges against Wikipedia for promoting what she believed to be hate speech. The Managing director of Wikimedia Deutschland, however, thought the symbols were used for clearly educational purposes.

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Is Wikipedia a "marvel of collaboration" and a "model of peer production"? Or is it a poorly implemented bureaucracy, with "fiefdoms, cliques and sycophancy to the charismatic leader"?

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This morning, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures discloses to the world his failure rate as a venture capitalist of 17 years (20 percent over 32 investments, which is enviable in VC circles). He's also had 11 deals (40 percent) with 5X+ returns, so it more than balances out.

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The standard is designed to minimize the risk of failure in complex IT projects involving third-party suppliers. General Motors looked at how teenagers communicate using Web 2.0 technologies and the way open source projects are managed.

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The acquisition by Microsoft of a 1.6% stake in social networking site, Facebook, is big news for a variety of reasons. This Bangalore-based Blog comments on some of them.

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Some folks feel Web 2.0 has heralded a new era in social interactions. Some even think web 2.0 will make all of us better and wiser human beings. People are yet to compare Web 2.0 to Jesus Christ, but who knows, perhaps it is jus' round the corner.

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If you visited the news site Digg.com on Tuesday afternoon, you likely spotted quirky news stories chosen by the site's largely 18- to 24-year-old male audience, including "Woman Steals Man's Genitals" and "Mother Gives Birth Then Flushes Twins Down Toilet." But an audience of  …

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A teen-ager was airlifted to hospital and his father had his nose broken when gatecrashers went on the rampage at a 16th birthday party after details were posted on YouTube, police and media reports said Friday.

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aweBsome provides regular updates on the latest in web 2.0, widgets, gadgets and other cool and awesome web happenings...especially useful for those looking for new online business ideas

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Indonesia has moved forward beyond the blogosphere: The country is already entering the new world, called Web 2.0 services. Several user-generated content services have already launched, and the country's community appears to have responded to them enthusiastically.

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While most Web 2.0 technologies are not new, many of their prevailing concepts run contrary to traditional security practices, says Joseph Feiman, a research vice president at Gartner.

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Web 2.0 offers three main benefits: the do-it-yourself (DIY) Web, a richer Web user experience and lighter-weight Web development models. Technologies that support each of these areas include: The DIY Web.

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New York based KickApps, the company devoted to offering social networking tools to online businesses, has secured $11 million in new funding.

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Venture capitalists invested more than $200m in growing internet and information services firms in China during the second quarter of this year, a newly-released report has found. A wave of web 2.0 start-ups were among the stars of a new boom in Chinese technology investment by  …

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A shiny new version of the internet, dubbed Web 2.0 by US publisher Tim O'Reilly in 2004, really was going to change everything. With mass broadband access to the internet, the dream of a fully networked, always connected society was finally going to be realised.

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