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...Even so, police are right to turn their attention from traditional hot spots like pubs and town squares to virtual gathering sites like Bebo and Facebook, according to Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. They are fertile ground for petty criminals. "One drawback is that there's so much antisocial behavior to choose from, like fishing in a spot where the fish bit as quickly as the bait is lowered," he said...
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Traicie was in Los Angeles and Nola in San Francisco (the two women chose not to be fully identified) when they got married in the virtual chapel of iRom.org an online wedding registry, on Nov. 9. The ceremony isn't legally binding...
...toys of the future: "social network included." The increasingly popular Ganz toy "Webkinz," for example, seems at first glance like a simple stuffed animal, but it actually comes complete with its own online persona and a secret-coded portal to the Webkinz World online, where kids care for their virtual pet and earn KinzCash. The latest entrant to this year's most-popular list is a collection of toys called the "Littlest Pet Shop," which also includes a social network online. And even the old bird Barbie now has her own interactive Internet playspace. (Didn't Barbie recently break...
...recall referendum in 2004.) But despite Chávez's claims that he's forging "a more genuine democracy" that finally enfranchises the nation's majority poor, Venezuela hardly looks poised to become a showcase for the separation of powers. The National Assembly and Supreme Court are Chávez's virtual rubber stamps; and, while free speech admittedly is still intact in Venezuela, he has increasingly defined opposition to his ideological agenda as counter-revolutionary treason. When Chávez pal and former Defense Minister General Raúl Baduel - who helped put Chávez back in power after a failed coup attempt...