http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorMon, 06 Oct 2008 13:51:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39157/ireport-but-who-decides-if-its-accurate.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA bogus report about the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reporters pointing fingers, investors fuming, and the SEC investigating, Greg Sandoval writes on CNET. The rumor, published by an armchair reporter on CNN's citizen journalism site, iReport.com, caused a brief 10% drop in Apple’s share price and could tank the reputations of professional and amateur journalists.http://www.newser.com/story/39157/ireport-but-who-decides-if-its-accurate.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 04 Oct 2008 17:29:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39075/apple-bats-down-latest-jobs-death-rumor.html?refid=rss_all_defaultApple again today was forced to quash rumors about the health of CEO Steve Jobs, refuting a report that the CEO had suffered a “major heart attack,” Bloomberg reports. Shares fell as much as 5.4% following a post on CNN’s citizen-journalist iReport site, but have since rebounded. Jobs’ health has been an issue since a bout with pancreatic cancer in 2004.http://www.newser.com/story/39075/apple-bats-down-latest-jobs-death-rumor.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 03 Oct 2008 12:08:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38826/child-climate-cops-a-bit-too-green.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA new website from British energy company Npower is encouraging children to spy on their parents—to save the environment, Mark Ontkush writes on Treehugger. After completing a series of “missions” on the Climate Cops site, kids are kitted out with the necessities for keeping careful tabs on the energy-consumption habits of local adults, and are encouraged to track the folks' “energy crimes.”http://www.newser.com/story/38826/child-climate-cops-a-bit-too-green.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 02 Oct 2008 14:36:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38914/service-cuts-make-aol-even-more-useless.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAOL is cutting two more of its website’s offerings, a blog creator and a data hosting service, Peter Kafka notes on Silicon Alley Insider. Users of AOL Journals, which hosts blogs, will be migrated to an equivalent host. Users of AOL Hometown, which mainly store photos—and, Kafka sniffs, is “as anachronistic as a dial-up ISP”—received a stiffer message: Save it elsewhere.http://www.newser.com/story/38914/service-cuts-make-aol-even-more-useless.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 01 Oct 2008 14:05:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38889/time-travel-google-shows-you-the-web-in-2001.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTo honor its 10th birthday, Google put up a search engine that reflects the web in 2001, TechCrunch reports. Other than the Yahoo-esque exclamation point in Google’s logo, the search engine has not changed that much since—but searches show the web, and the world, have: "iPod" brings up a defunct document-processing system, while "YouTube" yields zero links.http://www.newser.com/story/38889/time-travel-google-shows-you-the-web-in-2001.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 01 Oct 2008 13:54:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38795/10-most-buzzed-about-schools.html?refid=rss_all_defaultInstitutions of higher learning care about their brand as much as any business, so the Global Language Monitor has ranked universities and colleges for the amount of buzz they command on the internet. The winners: Harvard University Columbia University University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of California, Berkeley Stanford Universityhttp://www.newser.com/story/38795/10-most-buzzed-about-schools.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 30 Sep 2008 14:19:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38667/jury-selection-turns-to-facebook-blogs-data.html?refid=rss_all_defaultGet called for jury duty these days, and you can expect attorneys to know a lot more about you than they let on. Trial consultants who used to specialize in legwork—visiting neighbors and friends to gather clues to potential jurors' views—are now expert Web surfers, tracing things like spending habits, campaign contributions, letters to the editor—not to speak of the personal info on your Facebook page, the Los Angeles Times reports.http://www.newser.com/story/38667/jury-selection-turns-to-facebook-blogs-data.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 29 Sep 2008 11:43:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38595/web-20-makes-hitler-a-satirical-star.html?refid=rss_all_defaultHitler wants his Xbox back, at least in one of many YouTube spoofs. Using clips from a 2004 German film about the Nazi’s demise, users have also rewritten subtitles to show Hitler ranting about Hillary Clinton and Adam Sandler movies. The spoofs are the latest Web 2.0 spawn, the Guardian observes, enabling armchair impresarios to create and broadcast their own content.http://www.newser.com/story/38595/web-20-makes-hitler-a-satirical-star.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 28 Sep 2008 9:47:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38591/blogger-busted-for-bad-bank-rumor.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAs worldwide worries mount about the US financial crisis, a Hong Kong blogger has been arrested after allegedly posting internet rumors that a local bank was in trouble, AP reports. He urged depositors to withdraw their funds, police said. He was arrested for computer use with criminal or dishonest intent. Last week hundreds of customers swarmed the Bank of East Asia's offices in Hong Kong and Singapore demanding their deposits after similar rumors.http://www.newser.com/story/38591/blogger-busted-for-bad-bank-rumor.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 28 Sep 2008 8:07:34 CDT