The Disgrace Of Myspace

A slightly different look at the world's largest social networking portal, filled with literally hundreds of facetious annotations that will leave you snickering, if not downright splitting a gut. Seen through Kennedy's penetrating (often unmerciful) eye, this is a book that will show you another reality- the virtual and the absurd, as offered by the actual members themselves. Newcomers as well as those who've been around MySpace for awhile will also be exposed to some interesting facts they probably didn't know. If you are a "Spacer" or thinking of becoming one, then this book is a must for you.

"To help you understand MySpace, the authors step you through how to set up and personalize a MySpace account and how to manage an online social life. Then they look at how young people are changing the Internet and how to guide them as they navigate thesocial Web"--Back cover.

"MySpace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens and Parents" provides teens and parents with a common sense approach for using MySpace.com. The authors provide specific methods to minimize the risk that comes with having a MySpace.com account. Each element of personal information requested by MySpace is analyzed to determine how the data is used. The safety tips describe where information entered into MySpace is displayed, and show how the information might be used by a person with malicious intentions. The book then provides recommendations on the actions a MySpace user should take with respect to the requested information, to minimize risk. The book can also be applied as a user's manual for MySpace.com, since to define areas of risk and appropriate responses for safety the authors investigated and documented all facets and features of the MySpace.com site. The 51 safety tips describe how to: - prepare for opening a MySpace.com account - enter the information required to join MySpace.com - configure "profile" information tabs - make and respond to MySpace friend requests - manage contacts from the MySpace "extended network" - eliminate unwanted contact from strangers - avoid profile invasion, spyware, and phishing scams - report inappropriate content and other problems to MySpace.com - close a MySpace.com account The book also includes programming script code that disables some MySpace options that allow strangers to track the actions of teens without the teens having any awareness that this is happening. While the book specifically addresses MySpace.com, its lessons can be applied to any social networking site, to a person's blog, or to other places where a teen may establish an online presence.

This the definitive anthology of Kennedy's poetic works. In it you will find virtually everything he has ever written, including his most recent compositions. It is, almost literally, the poetic story of his life. Kennedy isn't one to mince words. He can be opinionated and is by nature sardonic. He is also a free spirit, open-minded and unconstrained by conventional forms of presentation. His subject matter runs the gamut, but much of his work is focused on God, religion, love, social mores and, of course, the meaning of life. He is passionate. He is profound. He is earthy, mundane- even ribald occasionally; he also sublime. He is questioning. He is a wordsmith; he is complex and sometimes he can be "too simple to understand," as are all deep thinkers. "...He makes us see things not only clearly and whole, but differently than before, the mark of an artist of the first rank." He is a poet for all ages, as will he be a poet for future generations. He is decidedly one of a kind.

Kennedy once described his writing as something of a cross between Khalil Gibran and H. L. Mencken, with a twist or two that makes his style uniquely his own. Combining verse with some of his quotations, or witticisms, is an example of his zest to experiment with different formats creatively...It is a compilation that gives the world a glimpse into the mind of one of the more gifted writers of our time that you will return to time after time.

Richard David Kennedy's satirical latter-day epic probes the nature of religion, and, at the same time, questions humanity's ability to look at it objectively. A highly original and imaginative poem of vast proportion, this work will easily stand the test of time.

Junior Asparagus is fearful after getting lost during a game of hide-and-seek, until a strange book transports him to a spaceship where everyone is frantic about being lost and Junior reminds them that God is with them, wherever they are.

A struggling novelist, who edits other writer's copy to make ends meet, goes to an island in the Mid-Atlantic to work on a "serious" book for a travel writer. What happens after that is anything but serious. He encounters an unbelievably bizarre world filled with uproariously funny people and outlandish events. "...What a fantastic story!...An intricately orchestrated trip of surreal fantasy and humor. "Lindy C., USA (Poet)