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Updates for June 7, 2010
U Report blog begins covering
By: Tanika Cooper
Summer is almost here, which means only one thing – party!
Alright, maybe not party, but it’s definitely the time to do all those things you could not during the normal school session. We are communicating via email, phone and Facebook with two U…
Updates for June 4, 2010
SLC police chief right to opt out of illegal immigrant bill
By: Reed Nelson
Via the broad avenues of cell phones, reality TV and
real-life interaction proxies such as Facebook and MySpace, youth
might indeed be fleeting. But if youth is fleeting in this confused
nation, then trust is sprinting with vigor, proving just how fast…
Updates for June 3, 2010
Leal: The true nature of Facebook privacy
By: Chris Leal
Facebook, the social networking site created by Mark Zuckerberg out of his Harvard dorm room — in case anybody was unaware of what Facebook was — has recently been in the spotlight for its privacy standards, or accused lack thereof….
Updates for May 11, 2010
Plouffe, Schmidt reunite on campus to discuss social media
By: Reity O’brien
Former campaign managers emphasize role of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube in politics
At the Global Dimensions Symposium last Tuesday, David Plouffe and Steve Schmidt, rival campaign strategists of the 2008 presidential election, joined with international journalists Mona Eltahawy and Jacqueline Ann Surin to emphasize the democratizing inf…
Updates for May 10, 2010
Keep an eye on your privacy
By: Dylan Proietti
The concept of Internet vigilance seems particularly apt when applied to the popular social networking site Facebook….
Journalism shouldn’t be about Twitter, Facebook or profit
By: Tim Lynch
Cost efficient jacks-of-all-trades push out the masters of trade.
Updates for May 7, 2010
Flying Dutchman: Jared Berry
By: David Gordon
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” It’s no surprise that this quote from Victor Hugo can be found on senior Jared Berry’s Facebook page….
Facebook contract no surprise in age of advertising overload
By: C.W. Keating | University undergraduate
Letter to the editor
Emerald columnist Greg Dewar seems to assume that Facebook is the last place where commercial interests can prey upon the weak minds of college students (“New Facebook policy is anti-social,” ODE, April 27). I pass fliers, bulletins and ads ev…
Updates for May 6, 2010
Cinco de Mayo celebrated
By: Vestoria Simmons
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, Salsarita’s offered free churros, a $5 small burrito and drink special with a coupon available from its Facebook page. The restaurant also gave out free pi
Updates for May 4, 2010
Guy That No One Ever Calls Wants Everyone To Know That He Lost His Cell Phone
By: Phil Vesselinovitch
The best in fake news delivered in briefs for your reading pleasure
Chris Jents, some total nobody who no one ever calls, wants everyone to know that he lost his cell phone during Mifflin, so, if pigs grow wings and begin to fly and you need to call Jents for some bizarre reason, it is best to e-mail him. In a Facebook me…
Pay attention to the details, if you can: Multitasking cripples observation
By: Patrick Malee | Sports reporter
In my opinion | The red zone
Every year, as the Facebooks and Twitters of the world become more and more popular, I become increasingly worried about my generation.
In 50 years, the 2000s will be remembered as the beginning of the multitasking era. Look around your average college c…
Facebook privacy a thing of the past?
By: Sarah Walters | News reporter
Social networking site now links user information to third-party Web sites, puts interest in pages
Anyone who uses Facebook has probably noticed that the popular social networking Web site has undergone a few recent changes. Facebook has launched a new instant personalization program that links users’ personal information to third-party Web si…
