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From The Los Angeles Times:

From The Los Angeles Times:

After more than four years at the helm of the popular social network, MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe is stepping down before his contract expires. He is one of the creators of MySpace and has been the CEO since February 2005.

The company said the decision to step down in the "near future" was a mutual one between DeWolfe and News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller. News Corp. owns MySpace.

Kevin Carey in The Chronicle of Higher Ed:Newspapers are dying. Are universities next? The parallels between them are closer than they appear. Both industries are in the business of creating and communicating information. Paradoxically, both are threatened by the way technology has made that easier than ever before.

Heidi Newfield's been getting a lot of press lately as the result of her five nominations for the Country Music Association awards.  She's the former singer in a successful country band, Trick Pony.  Now she's getting a lot of airplay for her new single "Johnny and June" (referring to Cash and Carter, respectively).  She's a talented singer and songwriter.  She's also the subject of some strangely unnatural photography poses.

Heidi Newfield's been getting a lot of press lately as the result of her five nominations for the Country Music Association awards.  She's the former singer in a successful country band, Trick Pony.  Now she's getting a lot of airplay for her new single "Johnny and June" (referring to Cash and Carter, respectively).  She's a talented singer and songwriter.  She's also the subject of some strangely unnatural photography poses.

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Melissa Healy in the Los Angeles Times:

The Bakersfield Californian is an anomaly in the newspaper business. While other papers are shutting their doors and filing for bankruptcy, it's expanding. The reason is the paper's 2005 launch of an online social network, called Bakotopia.com, aimed at reaching nonreaders, especially the young people in this city of nearly 329,000.

A law firm promoting cases it won for clients has leaked information on the settlement between social-networking site Facebook and ConnectU, another social-network company run by former Harvard University roommates, including Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook.

Lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, located in Los Angeles with offices in New York and San Francisco, spilled the beans on the $65 million settlement in a newsletter which stated "Won $65 million settlement against Facebook," according to The Recorder, a legal publication.