Tag: myspace

  • Our 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 the net ranging from college-fun-party pictures to wet t-shirt shots to porn. Now it’s important to note that most of these pictures – the…

  • World of Warcraft MySpace Layouts

    Blizzard, in their infinite wisdom has blessed MySpace with its presence! Over the past few months I’ve received a number of requests for World of Warcraft MySpace layouts and I’m happy to say that Blizzard has created a number of those layouts for anyone to use! They’ve got one for each WoW race. To get…

  • School 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 like MySpace, Facebook and Xanga while using school hardware. In all actuality, there is no real need for students to be on such social sites…

  • Subverting 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 have seen a number of comment come in regarding…well…not threats from schools, but blocking of such sites by educational institutions.…

  • 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 make them stop participating in social networking with websites such as MySpace, Facebook and Xanga. The article states: Effective immediately, and…

  • Leetster

    World of Warcraft, as I’ve mentioned before is a very popular game. WoW, however, is more than just the game aspect…it is extremely social. Players can create guilds – which are organizations in game – and participate in a variety of player created events and interactions with other players. Guilds typically create websites (like this…