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["Discover the Possibility"] Facebook and Privacy: [8] According to Wikipedia, "the IAO has the stated mission to gather as much information as possible about everyone, in a centralized location, for easy perusal by the United States government, including (though not limited to) Internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver's licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data." [9] Protests came from civil libertarians on both the right and the left who saw the IAO as a new Orwellian arm of the United States government. After Congress investigated DARPA's project, funding was cut off and IAO was essentially dead in the water.

 [H i g h P l a i n s D r i f t e r] The Truth About Facebook: Friends, Most of the emails we send out are simply announcements or reminders. Because so many people on the USD campus, and so many people in the CPJ are using the popular "networking" tool Facebook, however, we feel the need to pass on this warning.

 [Savageminds.org] Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ”” A Group Blog ...: The Connexions Project, of which I am an occasional advisor, at Rice University, is an experiment in open access textbook publishing. More than publishing, however, the aim of Connexions (cnx for short) is modeled on open source collaboration—instead of creating a full textbook and simply publishing it online, cnx encourages people to write short chunkish textbook “modules”

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