School Bans Social Websites
This is week-and-a-half-old news, however it struck a nerve so I figured I’d post it. According to this article on App.com, Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta, NJ is threatening students to...
View ArticleSubverting MySpace and Facebook Blocks With Proxies
In November I blogged about Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta New Jersey and their forcing of students to stop using sites like MySpace, Xanga, and Facebook. Over the past few months I...
View ArticleSchool Punishes Student For Blogging From Home
Schools across the country are cracking down on student computer use; blocking social sites and proxy servers. Many schools are perfectly within their right to prevent teenagers from frequenting sites...
View ArticleOur Actions Now Effect Us Later: Antonella Barba, MySpace, Facebook
The blogosphere is abuzz with Antonella Barba, an American Idol contestant of Season 6. It appears that earlier this week some racy pictures (NSFW) of the fairly attractive Idol-wanna-be surfaced on...
View ArticleFacebook Is Better Than Porn
Time has an interesting article that states that Generation Y craves electronic social networking more than electronic porn. Stating: … [a] way to figure out where college students are going online is...
View ArticleBringing back the console API on Netflix and Facebook
Facebook and Netflix have implemented some code that breaks the console API in Chrome by changing the getter/setter for the console property on the window object. The purpose is noble – to help avoid a...
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