Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with myspace www.salem-news.com 2010 A new petition drive seeks to see MySpace return to its old days and re-simplify the site so that people can again have an unfiltered place stripped of the unnecessary bells and whistles. MySpace.com took the world by storm, becoming the most popular social networking site in June 2006. In the wake of MySpace we have seen Facebook take over the social communication aspect of the Internet... http://salem-news.com/articles/november172010/myspace-revival-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november172010/myspace-revival-tk.php Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:05:00 PST Albanian-American author Agron Belica and Poet Christopher DelOrfano, who is also a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, conversed briefly at an undisclosed location in Boston, MA about promoting future projects they are putting together. Because their projects include music, DelOrfano suggested they contact his long time friend and associate for advice, Gambino of La Familia Entertainment out of Pittsburg, PA. http://salem-news.com/articles/october092010/gambino_01.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october092010/gambino_01.php Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:22:00 PDT "I am Razah" is how the Jamaicain-born R&B singer presents himself, with a musical edge that is anything but typical. Born in Jamaica and raised in Brooklyn, Razah (pronounced Raze-ah), born Martell Nelson, takes a less-walked route with R&B subject matter, generally avoiding today's over-done popularity of singing about relationships and breakups. http://salem-news.com/articles/september232010/i-am-razah-ak.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september232010/i-am-razah-ak.php Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:02:00 PDT When we started Salem-News.com almost five years ago, I sensed the potential of a great media movement that was about to take place Online, and sure enough it is now underway. I had an idea then that our strictly Web-based news organization could serve the needs of people here very effectively by providing the latest news and empowering the people of Salem, who live in the shadow of our metropolis neighbor to the north. http://salem-news.com/articles/march192009/snc-compares_3-18-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march192009/snc-compares_3-18-09.php Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:25:00 PDT We reported on May 16th 2007 that the U.S. government appeared to be on the verge of relaxing its complete blackout of MySpace and YouTube on all U.S. military computers. I can tell you over one year later that it apparently never happened. It seems unusual that the Department of Defense would continue this ridiculous information "blackout" at a time that we are asking so much from these brave warriors. http://salem-news.com/articles/august172008/myspace.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august172008/myspace.php Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:04:00 PDT A Los Angeles federal Grand Jury indicted a Missouri mother whose actions through an online hoax may have led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide. Lori Drew is alleged to have become closely involved in her teen daughter's love life, and that may be where the problems began. Prosecutors say she helped create a false MySpace page to contact Megan Meier who thought she was talking with a 16-year-old boy named "Josh Evans." http://salem-news.com/articles/may152008/myspace_charges_5-15-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152008/myspace_charges_5-15-08.php Thu, 15 May 2008 12:37:00 PDT Six Polk County, Florida teenagers are accused of beating a 16-year-old girl, recording the attack and posting it on the popular social networking site MySpace and YouTube. Victoria Lindsay was attacked on March 30 by six teenage girls when she arrived at a friend's home, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. At one point in the video, Lindsay was knocked unconscious, and was later seen pleading to be let out of the house. http://salem-news.com/articles/april082008/internet_beating_040808.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april082008/internet_beating_040808.php Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:40:00 PDT She may no longer be the Mayor of Arlington, Oregon, but Carmen Gronquist is increasingly becoming a national celebrity since media sources outed her lingerie photo from MySpace, showing a healthy tan and plenty of tone. Today she was featured on NBC's Today Show live, talking about the recent struggle to retain her office in spite of the fallout from the photos, in this small, conservative eastern Oregon city. http://salem-news.com/articles/march032008/myspace_mayor_3-3-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march032008/myspace_mayor_3-3-08.php Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:08:00 PST The Mayor of Arlington, Oregon, Carmen Kontur Gronquist, has been recalled from office over a photo she posted of herself on her personal MySpace page. The photo showed her wearing what appears to be lingerie, or possibly a two piece bathing suit. The photo had been taken before her election to office, but that didn't stop the townspeople in this conservative eastern Oregon city from recalling her from office over it. Some cited the fact that the picture was taken by a city fire. http://salem-news.com/articles/february272008/arlington_mayor_2-27-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february272008/arlington_mayor_2-27-08.php Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:44:00 PST Oregon State Police, working in cooperation with Yuba County Sheriff's Office and Wheatland Police Department, safely recovered a missing 16-year old girl Sunday in southern Oregon. An Oregon man was taken into custody during the traffic stop in the Grants Pass area and is presently held on criminal charges filed in California that have raised his bail amount well above one million dollars. http://salem-news.com/articles/february252008/girl_found_2-25-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february252008/girl_found_2-25-08.php Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:25:00 PST A Dallas Oregon man says he never expected to be in trouble for the company he keeps, especially at the age of 51. But some of Les Lowen's MySpace friends may have ties to biker clubs or "gangs," and he says the presence of those friends on his "top friends" list nearly landed him in jail. Lowen was picked up on a drunk driving charge last year and the conviction meant a probation term. He says there is little in the way of delineation at the Polk County, Oregon Parole and Probation Office. http://salem-news.com/articles/february202008/les_lowen_2-20-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february202008/les_lowen_2-20-08.php Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:10:00 PST Social networking sites have grown exponentially in number and in members over the last few years. As more and more people sign up and build their profiles, unless you show people there’s something special about you, you might just end up getting stuck in the crowd. Social networking experts discuss the best ways to use social networking to build a great business network. http://salem-news.com/articles/february182008/ybc_02-18-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february182008/ybc_02-18-08.php Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:14:00 PST A student at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City is undergoing a mental evaluation after police say he left threatening messages on his MySpace page. College officials notified the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office that the student had been posting what are described as threatening and disturbing comments on his site. http://salem-news.com/articles/february152008/student_threats_2-15-15.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february152008/student_threats_2-15-15.php Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:42:00 PST Attorney General Hardy Myers today announced Oregon’s participation in an agreement with MySpace to make significant steps to better protect children on its web site, including creation of a broad-based task force to explore and develop age and identity verification technology. "This agreement is an important step toward a victory for social networking safety," Myers said. "We all want to protect our children from on-line sexual predators and inappropriate materials." http://salem-news.com/articles/january142008/myspace_11408.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142008/myspace_11408.php Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:13:00 PST It is the "Home of the Honkers" and it is hard to miss the irony. A scantily clad image of the city of Arlington, Oregon's mayor is making the rounds on the Web today after news agencies lifted the image from her public MySpace page. Arlington, Oregon's Mayor Carmen Kontur Gronquist did what many people do in the new Millennium; she posted images of herself on MySpace wearing lingerie. Maybe posing on a city fire vehicle was pushing it a bit, but then I lived in Las Vegas for five years where calendars feature the city's "sexiest firefighters." http://salem-news.com/articles/january092008/arlington_mayor_1908.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january092008/arlington_mayor_1908.php Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:09:00 PST One of the most shocking stories about MySpace revealed so far is the suicidal saga of a little girl who was tricked by a neighbor's mom into thinking she was communicating with a boy in her age group. As it turns out a neighbor, the mother of a teen herself, was posing as a teen boy and communicating with Megan on MySpace. When the character turned on her, the 13-year old hung herself. Now her parents and bloggers all over the nation are demanding justice. http://salem-news.com/articles/november292007/myspace-suicide_112907.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november292007/myspace-suicide_112907.php Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:47:00 PST British authorities have launched a Website to warn children about the dangers of putting their personal information on social networking sites such as MySpace. The site, setup by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, a British police agency set up to tackle child sex abuse, teaches children about the the dangers of revealing too much information about themselves online. http://salem-news.com/articles/october242007/web_warning_102407.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october242007/web_warning_102407.php Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:23:00 PDT MySpace has admitted it detected and deleted over 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times the figure it had initially reported. All of those barred are thought to be based in the US. The company, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, said it hoped other social networking sites would follow its lead. http://salem-news.com/articles/july252007/sex_offenders_my_space_072507.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july252007/sex_offenders_my_space_072507.php Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:43:00 PDT The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office announces the arrest of a 20-year old Wilsonville man for what Spokesman Jim Strovink describes as, "an assortment of crimes involving at least two, young girls between the ages of 15 and 17." Kyle James Green is believed to have befriended underage girls on the internet using MySpace, in public libraries and through introductions from acquaintances according to Strovink. http://salem-news.com/articles/july012007/clackamas_arrest_7107.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july012007/clackamas_arrest_7107.php Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:12:00 PDT Pressure from the attorney generals of eight US states means MySpace will hand across information on sex offenders that the site has already tracked down and removed. It was announced Monday, that they would provide the information. The US state justice officials, top prosecutors in their respective states, say the social networking site exposes its youth-oriented crowd to sexual predators that may be prowling Web in search of victims. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222007/myspace_ags_52207.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222007/myspace_ags_52207.php Tue, 22 May 2007 04:30:00 PDT The Defense Department is taking a number of Internet organizations seriously in their complaint over a ban of sites like YouTube and MySpace. The government says it stems from soldiers using too much bandwidth and they also call it a security compromise. But many soldiers overseas say it is nothing more than an attempt to restrict information. http://salem-news.com/articles/may162007/dod_youtube_3_51607.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may162007/dod_youtube_3_51607.php Wed, 16 May 2007 20:04:00 PDT One video service that is being banned from U.S. government computers is going to fight back. YouTube wants a meeting with the U.S. military over a Web ban announced Monday. Soldiers say they are not in support of the government ban, they see it as an attempt to reduce the flow of information. One says the government has even clamped down on a soldier's ability to purchase vital equipment, "you can't go onto eBay anymore at some sites across Afghanistan." http://salem-news.com/articles/may152007/youtube_dod_part_2_51507.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152007/youtube_dod_part_2_51507.php Tue, 15 May 2007 15:59:00 PDT British 4-year old Madeleine McCann was abducted from her apartment bedroom in Praia da Luz holiday village, Algarve, Portugal, on Thursday, May 3rd, 2007. There is now a £100,000 reward for her safe return. The Post Chronicle reports that there could be a link between the missing girl and a suspect named Robert Murat. Algarve is situated on the extreme South of Portugal, in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152007/british_girl_51507.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152007/british_girl_51507.php Tue, 15 May 2007 15:10:00 PDT Military forces in the war theatre are already banned from alcohol and sex. Porn sites are screened by the Department of Defense, but the latest move by the military remove a soldier's access to Myspace, YOUTUBE, and other sites Monday strikes many as an unnecessary discipline that will only lead to a plunge in morale. A spokesperson for the DoD says the department's computer systems are being used more often for personal surfing, decreasing Internet availability and presenting security risks. http://salem-news.com/articles/may142007/dod_youtube_51407.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may142007/dod_youtube_51407.php Mon, 14 May 2007 10:36:00 PDT As I covered the war in Afghanistan during the winter of 2006/07 I knew I would want to do more with the footage than just the reports I was sending back to Salem-News.com and Oregon's KPTV FOX-12. Because Salem-News.com is family friendly in terms of language and content, I decided to post the footage on myspace.com and the footage is already building a new flow of visitors to our site. The first batch of footage is available to watch in five-minute segments from beginning to end. This is unedited footage from an infantry security patrol "outside the wire" in Kabul, Afghanistan near Camp Phoenix. The soldiers are mostly Oregon National Guard and it is a rare and unusual chance to witness a military operation in Afghanistan from beginning to end. http://salem-news.com/articles/march272007/myspace_story_32707.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march272007/myspace_story_32707.php Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:58:00 PDT News Corporation and NBC Universal will launch the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled with content from television and film, it was announced today by Jeff Zucker, President and Chief Executive Officer, NBC Universal and Peter Chernin, President and Chief Operating Officer, News Corporation. The video site will debut this summer with thousands of hours of full-length programming, movies and clips, representing premium content from at least a dozen networks and two major film studios. http://salem-news.com/articles/march222007/fox_nbs_32207.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march222007/fox_nbs_32207.php Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:29:00 PDT The Salem-Keizer School District is holding a series Internet Safety Workshops this month to help parents protect their children from internet crimes. Internet chat rooms, such as Myspace.com, are a popular social-networking destination for millions of children nationwide. Unfortunately, these same sites are also popular with sexual predators, cyber bullies and con artists. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212007/internetworkshop_032107.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212007/internetworkshop_032107.php Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:43:00 PDT The Salem-Keizer School District is holding a series Internet Safety Workshops this month to help parents protect their children from internet crimes. Topics will include: Internet predators - How they prey on children & the tactics they use. Cyberbullying - what it is and how to address it. Social Networking Sites – Such as MySpace and Facebook. Email and Instant Messaging. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052007/internetworkshops_020507.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052007/internetworkshops_020507.php Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:26:00 PST The Salem-Keizer School District is holding a Internet Safety Workshop Monday night to help parents protect their children from internet crimes. Presenters include representatives from the following organizations: Salem & Keizer Police Departments, Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Salem-Keizer School District and the Oregon Department of Justice Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Admission is free, registration is not required, and childcare will not be provided. http://salem-news.com/articles/january222007/internetsafety_012207.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january222007/internetsafety_012207.php Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:45:00 PST The Salem-Keizer School District is holding two Internet Safety Workshops on Tuesday to help parents protect their children from internet crimes. Presenters include representatives from the following organizations: Salem & Keizer Police Departments, Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Salem-Keizer School District and the Oregon Department of Justice Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. http://salem-news.com/articles/november132006/internetsafetyclass_111306.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november132006/internetsafetyclass_111306.php Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:38:00 PST