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Today I found the following articles about MySpace.com and parenting.

Calsey Merritt Jr. couldn’t believe his mother created a personal profile on MySpace before he did. But she makes the rules. His mother, Dionne Dixon, wanted to test the Web site out first before she let her 16-year-old son join.Parents navigate MySpace for their kids’ sake (Carroll County Online)

What can an Internet predator learn about your child while chatting online?Online sexual predators real threat to children (East Valley Tribune)

Internet predators are??just the beginning of cyberspace dangers facing children. Parents now have an??online alternative to MySpace that puts them in control of their kids’ safety. Inside, find a link to the new web site .Parents Now Have Alternative to MySpace (KLAS Las Vegas)

(SPRINGFIELD) — Legislators are looking for ways to crack down on sex offenders and internet predators.Legislators Crack Down On Internet Sex Offenders (KOLR/KSFX Ozarks)

Time to alert the MySpace.com users:

In a program called Transmissions, MySpace is inviting musicians to choose a studio venue and select the songs they want to perform. MySpace will show and sell the videos.MySpace creates one-stop shopping for music videos (International Herald Tribune)

MySpace is seeking to cement its reputation as the essential website for new bands by creating a music video channel called Earwig TV. By Jemima KissMySpace channel to break new music (Guardian Unlimited)

Hoping to broaden its relevance to the music industry in the face of increasing competition from other social networking sites, MySpace will roll out a suite of services and initiatives as part of what company officials are calling MySpace Music 2.0.MySpace gears up for more music with Transmissions (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

MySpace, the social networking sites, is launching a new music that aims to offer valuable exposure to fans and critics for new artists. The video based channel, Earwig TV, will showcase exclusive video content created by a selected mix of new bands and artists on MySpace …MySpace launches new exposure channel (Mad.co.uk)

Updated: 10 Dec 2007 Several celebrity MySpace.com sites were defaced Wednesday by someone hoping to impress a hacker crew, a security researcher said today, a motivation of yore that harks back to when hackers sought notoriety rather than credit card numbers.Glory hunter hacks MySpace pages of Timberlake, Hilary Duff (Computerworld Singapore)

MySpace will roll out a suite of services and initiatives called MySpace Music 2.0.MySpace Gears Up for More Music with Transmissions (eWeek)

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MySpace will roll out a suite of services and initiatives called MySpace Music 2.0.MySpace Gears Up for More Music with Transmissions (eWeek)

MySpace is seeking to cement its reputation as the essential website for new bands by creating a music video channel called Earwig TV. By Jemima KissMySpace channel to break new music (Guardian Unlimited)

Updated: 10 Dec 2007 Several celebrity MySpace.com sites were defaced Wednesday by someone hoping to impress a hacker crew, a security researcher said today, a motivation of yore that harks back to when hackers sought notoriety rather than credit card numbers.Glory hunter hacks MySpace pages of Timberlake, Hilary Duff (Computerworld Singapore)

The popularity of MySpace has captured millions of teenagers and adults worldwide. But locally, teachers are torn on using it to communicate with students.Teachers wary of MySpace world (Tallahassee Democrat)

Hoping to broaden its relevance to the music industry in the face of increasing competition from other social networking sites, MySpace will roll out a suite of services and initiatives as part of what company officials are calling MySpace Music 2.0.MySpace gears up for more music with Transmissions (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

The social networking website MySpace has launched an internet video channel, Earwig TV, aimed at making it easier for users to spot new music talentMySpace launches music video site (Independent)

In a program called Transmissions, MySpace is inviting musicians to choose a studio venue and select the songs they want to perform. MySpace will show and sell the videos.MySpace creates one-stop shopping for music videos (International Herald Tribune)

MySpace, the social networking sites, is launching a new music that aims to offer valuable exposure to fans and critics for new artists. The video based channel, Earwig TV, will showcase exclusive video content created by a selected mix of new bands and artists on MySpace …MySpace launches new exposure channel (Mad.co.uk)

Myspace Presents Wyclef and Vibe Verses Champ, Miss NanaMyspace Presents Wyclef and Vibe Verses Champ, Miss Nana (Vibe Magazine)

Megan Meier died believing that somewhere in this world lived a boy named Josh Evans who hated her. But he didn’t exist. He was the creation of a former friend’s mother.MySpace hoax leads to suicide, but no laws broken (International Herald Tribune)

Time to alert the parents:

(SPRINGFIELD) — Legislators are looking for ways to crack down on sex offenders and internet predators.Legislators Crack Down On Internet Sex Offenders (KOLR/KSFX Ozarks)

It takes just 20 minutes for a sexual predator to learn where a potential victim lives and at what hour he or she is home. That’s the lesson two officers gave about a dozen parents.Police show parents sexual predators’ techniques (The Arizona Republic)

Two St. Charles County lawmakers said this week the Legislature in the coming session would, at the least, review the problem of cyberspace harassment.POKIN AROUND: Rupp and Funderburk say they’ll make cyberspace harassment a state topic (O’Fallon Journal)

It is an odd sensibility that gave Lori Drew comfort at the funeral of the 13-year-old girl to whose suicide she almost certainly contributed.How Lori Drew became America’s most reviled mother (Tenterfield Star)