presentation to parents and young people in Albany, NY

1. St. Pius X November 2, 2009 www.catholicYMblog.com

4. SURF’S UP!

9. Concerns ?

18. January 1994 Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, links.net December 1997 Online diarist Jorn Barger coins the term “Weblog” for “logging the Web.” April 1999 Programmer Peter Merholz shortens “Weblog” to “blog.” August 1999 Blogger rolls out the first popular, free blog-creation service. February 2002 Heather Armstrong is fired for discussing her job on her blog, Dooce. “Dooced” becomes a verb: “Fired for blogging.” December 2002 Talking Points Memo highlights Trent Lott’s racially charged comments; thirteen days later, Lott resigns from his post as Senate majority leader. December 2004 Merriam-Webster declares “blog” the “ Word of the Year.” August, 2004 DScottMiller.com

20. Gaumer transferred to UMBC in 2004 and lived in Walker Avenue Apartments for a year and a half. Almost immediately he began to build a reputation in some circles. He found female UMBC students via popular social networking websites MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/) and The Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/) and contacted them over AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). He would flirt with women online, sometimes sending them pictures of his bare chest or genitals. Those who turned him down were sometimes met with a string of harsh profanity. Those who responded favorably he would invite to his apartment, where, according to his roommates, he would sometimes cook them lavish meals, then invite the woman to watch a movie in his room. Often, they would have sex. Based on their own count, and what Gaumer told them, Gaumer’s roommates estimate that by the end of his first year at UMBC, he had slept with more than 40 individual women.

33. Blogging The News Beyond My Own Self The News I Can Use I am The News

34. Blogging I am The News I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

46. Promote a culture of respect for the dignity and value of the human person, a dialogue rooted in the sincere search for truth (and) for friendship that is not an end in itself, but is capable of developing the talents of each person to put them at the service of the human community."

54. questions

55. DISCIPLES NOW The place for Catholic teens on the web. www.DisciplesNow.com