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NetHappenings Resources and Headlines 1/22/08

'Finding People' the mother load

US social networking: Fresh numbers, 'Grooming' by phone,teens mean online behavior, web briefs

K-12 Newsletter Science - Hilton Pond, Space Weather and NASA.

The Military Industrial Educational Complex - Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission:

Learn How Bit Torrent Works: Being tracked by anti-piracy organizations and receiving infringement notices on file-sharing networks is becoming more common. A security project manager has just released a short video showing how it’s done.

Fascinating, enlightening ... and appalling. WELL worth the time to read it! Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent

The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its 2008 Summer Teacher Institutes. The institutes provide educators from grades 4-12 across the nation with the opportunity to engage in intensive study and exploration of a specific topic using the staff expertise and facilities of the Library of Congress.

Make it so cheap it's not worth it to steal. Build a business that scales. So you can make money in the future.

On C-span 27th Annual American Book Awards Ceremony - Daniel Cassidy January 26, at 7:00 PM Sunday, January 27, at 1:00 AM Monday, January 28, at 6:00 AM

Military industrial complex aims to revamp email. The requirements were defined and endorsed by the members of the TSCP: the US Department of Defense (DoD), UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), BAE Systems, Boeing, EADS, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Rolls-Royce. Comcast's been port 25 blocking since 2004.

NetHappenings Headlines and Resources

January 18, 2008 a bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders NCLB UPDATE, NATIONAL DASHBOARD, FEDERAL STUDENT AID, GRANTS FORECAST, MATH COURSETAKING AND ACHIEVEMENT

Tools: Captchas explanations for KNOW NOTHINGs, KNOW SOMETHINGs, and KNOWITALLs, colloquially speaking. Learn why it's bad for accessability - Imagine a World Without Apple, Bloggers, Google or Dell - Youtube Remixer button - blogtv - 2008 eduWeb Conference in Atlantic City

The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary

Headlines and Resources

Network Tools

Teen-distributed child porn; MO cyberbullying case; Imposter profiles; Online 'friending'; 'Semi-permeable' classrooms; Everybody a spin doctor; Oz filtering; Online socializing in Japan; UK's top social sites

* Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools -- CFDA# 84.184E * Professional Development for Arts Educators (PDAE)Program -- CFDA# 84.351C

Martin Luther King, Jr Day - which is January 21st this year - including audio and video links to some of Dr. King's most-loved speeches. Black History Month all year long. CLASSROOM RESOURCES, LEARN HISTORY THROUGH SONG, MUSIC, POETRY,and the ARTS. FOLKTALES -- 2 ORIGINAL E - BOOKS Read and Hear A Brother Anansi and Brother Tecoma Stories spoken in Standard English and Negerhollands English. LESSON PLANNING, UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, ABOUT AMISTAD, CENSUS 1999, PLANTATIONS, ADULT TOPICS, BOOKS, ONLINE TOOLS, BLACK SLAVERY IS NOT HISTORY ONLINE PROJECT