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		<title>The scammers never give up</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2013/03/13/the-scammers-never-give-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the lastest attempt to extort money from Learn the Net. If you receive an email similar to this, you&#8217;re not alone. Dear President &#38; CEO, We are an organization specified at dealing with domain name dispute and registration in Asia. We have something important on intellectual property right need to confirm with your company. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet search isn’t always an easy solution</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2012/06/21/the-internet-search-isn%e2%80%99t-always-an-easy-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Douglas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago one of my clients who works in the software industry posed a question online to other like-minded software engineers, asking if anyone knew if a certain type of software existed. After three days without a response, my curiosity kicked in. I used Google&#8217;s search page to see what was on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer and Internet security in the headlines again</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2012/06/07/computer-and-internet-security-in-the-headlines-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Douglas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://learnthenet.org/?p=2266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the topic of computer and Internet security is always in fashion, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice the wealth of related headlines so far this week. It seems as long as we have computer systems, there will always be someone out there to take advantage of their security (or lack thereof), and this week appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How are youth learning about and using the Internet?</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2012/05/24/how-are-youth-learning-about-and-using-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 21:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Douglas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month I brought up the topic of seniors learning to use computers and the Internet, as well as the challenges they face. Today I want to look at what our youth are doing with the rapidly changing technological landscape around them. Allow me dive right in with a few examples I&#8217;ve noted over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seniors learning computers, the Internet despite the challenges</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2012/05/10/seniors-learning-computers-the-internet-despite-the-challenges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 18:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Douglas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite having a computer in the home at several points in her life, my mother still doesn&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; them. First we had a Commodore 64 in the &#8217;80s, then a PC in the early &#8217;90s. Truth told, however, it was me using them, not my mom. So when in 2007 I gave her a Windows-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offline and online data: back it up!</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2012/04/26/offline-and-online-data-back-it-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Douglas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the observance of Preservation Week, I want to shift gears a bit for this week&#8217;s post and talk briefly about a topic dear to me: saving your data. The Internet age has brought with it many changes to how we use and share information. Rather than writing information in notebooks and letters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media websites and applications on the rise</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2012/04/12/social-media-websites-and-applications-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Douglas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://learnthenet.org/?p=2238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;re new to the Internet — or have been living in a cave — you know that social media has been an influential part of the Web for well over a decade. As an interactive social instrument of communication, social media has shaped how we communicate with each other, all thanks to that wacky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education and the Internet: Who is getting left behind?</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2012/03/22/education-and-the-internet-who-is-getting-left-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://learnthenet.org/2012/03/22/education-and-the-internet-who-is-getting-left-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Douglas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://learnthenet.org/?p=2231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a student or parent of a student, you&#8217;re likely to be at least somewhat aware of the push to include technology in education. Whether at middle school or graduate school, the presence of interactive whiteboards, tablets, and online lectures is greater every year. And while there&#8217;s still plenty of debate about the effectiveness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet privacy: It&#039;s a complicated issue</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2012/03/08/internet-privacy-its-a-complicated-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://learnthenet.org/2012/03/08/internet-privacy-its-a-complicated-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Douglas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend a ruckus was made over Google&#8217;s implemented privacy policy changes, with many critics arguing that the changes will only further crush people&#8217;s online privacy rights. Yet seemingly for every critic who protested the changes, someone else expressed how either the changes weren&#8217;t so limiting or — even more drastically — how our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children benefit when parents introduce them to, know something about online environments</title>
		<link>http://learnthenet.org/2012/02/23/children-benefit-when-parents-introduce-them-to-know-something-about-online-environments/</link>
		<comments>http://learnthenet.org/2012/02/23/children-benefit-when-parents-introduce-them-to-know-something-about-online-environments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Douglas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month news broke of parent Tommy Jordan and his somewhat unorthodox method of dealing with his daughter&#8217;s disobedience in the online realm. Jordan&#8217;s daughter, Hannah, reportedly used vulgarity on Facebook to talk poorly about her family. In response, Jordan lectured his daughter and then shot his daughter&#8217;s laptop nine times with a pistol. [...]]]></description>
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