http://psgvl.blogsome.com Providing information to Penn State Great Valley faculty, staff and students. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:40:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Can the law keep up with the rights of free speech when it comes to Social Networking sites? According to CNN, Courtney Love is being sued for libel for her negative comments about a fashion designer on Twitter. Is this Love’s way of expressing her opinion on Twitter or is ... http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/11/24/free-speech-social-networking-sites/ Every 10 years the United States conducts a required census of its population. They are currently preparing for the 2010 census that will account for everyone living at your address as of April 1, 2010. For more details about the process or to understand why it is important for ... http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/11/11/2010-census/ Those who remember the television show, Mission Impossible, with its self-destructing messages may appreciate Vanish - a new software tool still in development at University of Washington. In essence, it creates a shelf-life for e-mail and other forms of digital data, by assigning it a deletion time frame. ... http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/11/03/vanish-self-destructing-digital-data/ Tired of hearing the Phillies referred to as the underdog in the World Series against the Yankees? Sports Columnist, Tim Cowlishaw, has listed his top ten reasons why the Phillies deserve to be there. To read his top ten list click here http://timcowlishawblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/10/ten-reasons-to-like-the-philli.html. http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/10/29/ten-reasons-to-like-the-phillies/ www.Flu.Gov A great website for information regarding the flu is: http://www.flu.gov. This is a government resource. http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/10/21/flu-information/ Tuesday, Oct 13th from 5:30-7pm students can compete for cash prizes in a Penn State internet searching contest. Students will be given 20 questions and 30 minutes to find answers. For more information see http://live.psu.edu/story/41572 http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/10/13/internet-searching-competition/ You can now have access to free lecture videos and audio downloads from PBS and NPR at http://forum-network.org/. You can search by series, speaker or lectures. Speakers range from the coordinator of public health for the World Bank, authors, speakers from Harvard Business School, the director of the Center ... http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/10/06/frre-online-lectures-from-npr-and-pbs/ Introduced in 2006 as a simplified gateway to the most popular news on the internet, popurls ( http://popurls.com/) recently ranked among Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites for 2009. After examining the site, it is easy to see why popurls rates so highly. Organized with simple-to-read headlines, interspersed with video ... http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/09/29/keeping-up-with-the-news/ With many newspaper’s elimination of science sections, where can readers turn for reliable Science News? Futurity (http://Futurity.org) is one option. This site collects and posts science news releases from universities. Universities such as Penn State, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, University of Penn, etc. needed a way to easily post their scientific ... http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/09/22/where-is-all-the-science-news/ Want to know what to expect on the education front over the coming years? Who will be our students? How many degrees will be conferred? The National Center for Educational Statistics has released its report Projections of Education Statitics to 2018. The full report can be found at ... http://psgvl.blogsome.com/2009/09/15/education-statistics-to-2018/