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Salem-News.com Growth Means Changes

The switchover to a bigger, more capable server means a few functions may not be up until the week begins.

(SALEM) - Salem-News.com has experienced steady growth over its first two years, but nobody expected the site to zoom to the top almost overnight, which is exactly what happened when Salem-News.com was added to the Google News feed in the middle of June.

Google gathers news from 4,500 news organizations around the world. The stories are supplied on "Google News" which can be broken down into world, national, etc. Salem-News.com has hit the cover or top of the news in the domestic section three times in the last two weeks, driving all kinds of national and world web visitors to Salem, Oregon to get their top national stories.

As a result of Google’s acceptance, Salem-News.com has become a news organization that is constantly billed next to stories from CNN and the BBC, as well as NW news organizations like local newspapers and Portland TV stations.

Op Ed: Kiss `Neutral Net` Good-Bye,
Then Open Wallet-Wide,
For Pay-Per-Page

Consumer agencies dissect demands, defy Web-Net pirates.

(SALEM) - YOU are about to be robbed of your rights for freedom of speech and choice of sources on the World Wide Web --the Internet.

Wyden Blocks Telecom Legislation Over Ineffective Net Neutrality Provision

Senator wants legislation to include stronger safeguards for consumers to prevent discrimination in Internet access and usage.

(Washington D.C.) - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden announced that he has placed a `hold` on major telecommunications legislation recently approved by the Senate Commerce Committee until clear language is included that prevents discrimination in Internet access.

The legislation as currently written does not provide an effective policy on net neutrality, and instead opens the Internet up to large telecommunications companies and cable providers to charge consumers...

Monday Marks Major Digg.com Revision

(San Francisco) - The leading technology news site, digg.com, will switch to 'version 3.0' sometime Monday. Already ranked 35th most popular site in the US, Digg 3.0 will expand from it's current technology focus to include more mainstream-oriented categories for entertainment, gaming, science, world & business, and online video.

Anonymously launched in December 2004 as a experiment by Tech TV personality Kevin Rose, Digg was a radical departure from an old paradigm: that site owners had to exercise heavy editorial control to achieve good content.

Craigslist Adds Salem Section

(SALEM) - Entries started appearing Sunday in the new Salem Oregon section of the internationally popular online classified ads service, craigslist.org. Prior to the addition of salem.craigslist.org, Salem residents had to place ads under the section for the nearest listed city, Portland, and then put 'Salem' in the specific location field of the ad.

Internet: History As It Happens Beats Textbook Teachings

Greatest Contemporary Value For YOU: Experience NOW !!

(SALEM) - One of the world`s leading historians, Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel J. Boorstin, is famous for his favorite theme that most Americans miss the momentous meanings of events through which they live.

`Too much, too many, too fast, too complex`, he rightly contends regarding the unavoidable `communications surround` today -- and most of us would agree, while worried about the consequences we now recognize we cannot know contemporaneously.

Watch Out For E-Mail Fraud Seeking Bank Info

Police say no legitimate agency will ever send you an unsolicited e-mail requesting your credit card numbers.

(SALEM) - An e-mail from Chase Bank showing up in mid-valley electronic mailboxes at this time, is a bogus request to gain personal information.

This is how it reads when arrives in a hotmail box:

service@chase.com Chase Security Measures Notification Prof...

This is the actual e-mail...

State Gets Tough on SPAM

The state's new SPAM filtering system saves Oregon taxpayers over two million dollars a year.

(SALEM) - If you think SPAM e-mail is bad on your home computer, try multiplying it by nearly 38,000. That`s the number of e-mail addresses for State of Oregon employees.

While you can`t totally get rid of SPAM, the Department of Administrative Services is taking a proactive approach to minimize the problem.

The Network Operations Center, which runs the state`s central e-mail hub, has set up a SPAM filtering system that does an effective job for state agencies.

Salem Woman Loses Money in MySpace.com Internet Romance Scam

Salem Police Department Fraud Tip-of-the-Week

(Salem) - Last week, a woman in Salem became the most recent victim of an internet romance scam.
Salem Police Detective Paul Henninger says the suspect contacted the victim through the victim's personal web site with "MySpace.com."
He said the suspect represented himself as a blond hair, blue eyed model from the United States who was visiting his sick mother in Lagos, Nigeria...

Where`s My Refund Web Site Allows Taxpayers to Check Status

Last year the site received nearly 200,000 hits

(Salem) - The Oregon Department of Revenue is pleased that its popular Web site where taxpayers can check the status of their refunds is now up and running.