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Megan Fox ‘looking for multi-million dollar house in Hollywood Hills’

Megan Fox is reportedly looking for a multi-million dollars house in the Hollywood Hills.
According to the Daily Mail, the ‘Transformers’ star and a real estate agent were spotted looking for homes in the 2 to 3-million-dollar price range, reports the New York Daily News.
The 23-year-old is presently sharing a home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, with [...]

Megan Fox tops ‘Most Envied Bodies 2009’ list

Megan Fox has topped Heat magazine’’s ‘Most Envied Bodies 2009’ list.
The ‘Transformers’ star was followed by Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole, who came second
“We”ve always known that Megan Fox is a hit with men, but we were surprised at how quickly she has made an impact on women- they consider her to have the most [...]

Adam Elkus: Iran: It’s Not About Us

Acting on the belief that America can and should influence events on the ground in Iran will get a lot of people killed and gravely harm our regional interests.

MySpace ‘suicide bully cleared’

A US judge has acquitted a Missouri woman over her role in a computer hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbour who later killed herself.

District Judge George Wu stressed the ruling in the case of Lori Drew was tentative until issued in writing.

Drew, 50, was convicted last year after allegedly creating a fake MySpace page to find out what Megan Meier was saying about her daughter.

After the fake boy "dumped" Ms Meier online, she committed suicide.

Drew was found guilty in November of illegally accessing computers.

‘Public symbol’

But the judge said on Thursday that if she had been convicted for breaking the social networking site’s terms of service, "you could prosecute pretty much anyone who violated terms of service".

Lori Drew leaves an LA Court 18 May

Posing as "Josh Evans", Drew started an online relationship with her teenage neighbour, before apparently staging a falling-out and sending a message that "the world would be better off without" her.

She hanged herself a short time later in October 2006.

During court proceedings, Drew’s lawyer argued that "the government’s case is all about making Lori Drew a public symbol of cyber-bullying".

"The government has created a fiction that Lori Drew somehow caused [Megan's] death, and it wants a long prison sentence to make its fiction seem real."

But federal prosecutor Tom O’Brien said he stood by his decision to prosecute.

"I’m proud of this case," he said. "This is a case that called out for someone to do something. It was a risk. But this office will always take risks on behalf of children.</p


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Crowdsourcing, citizen journalism, and the lesson of scrapbook news

I want to further explore the idea of “scrapbook news” as a way of reframing the crowdsourcing/citizen journalism discussion.
One reason mainstream news organizations haven’t embraced the concepts may be that the spirit (if not the letter) of the cit-j discussion tends to focus on the people involved rather than the news being covered. That is, [...]