By Denise Tejada, Turnstyle News
Youth Radio's story on unschooling--a more unstructured self-directed form of homeschooling-- aired on NPR's All Things Considered.
Turnstyle took this topic and went a little further by compiling a list of the more famous names that made their living a full-time classroom. 
Serena and Venus Williams—professional tennis players. Serena is a former World No. 1 and currently ranked World No. 25 in singles and No. 20 in doubles with sister Venus Williams.
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It's not just Oprah and Shaq...
In an attempt to figure out why the latest Edison Research study shows that African-Americans are disproportionally represented on Twitter, Business Insider writer Nick Saint floats the theory that there are more Black celebrities on Twitter than White celebrities.
I'm not really sure what to make of his idea, as no one has gone and done an actual count yet, but from my own experience of Twitter celebs play only a secondary role in my tweetage.
Also of interest in the Edison report are the raw numbers on users across the social media spectrum. While Twitter and Facebook share roughly the same level of awareness in the total population of the United States (at 87% and 88% respectivly), Facebook blows the microblogging service out of the water with a whopping 41% of the population having an FB profile versus just 7% of the population using Twitter.
For now.
While Facebook has been growing steadily for the last few years a privacy backlash has been growing amongst the digeratti in the face of the social network's new plan to connect the entire internet to Facebook's "Like" system. Users are objecting to the number of hoops they now have to jump through in order to opt-out of the system. The backlash bubbled up on BoingBoing today, with triumphantly told tales of users finding ways to permanently delete their accounts and not just deactivate them as Facebook would prefer.
It seems that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg no longer believes in privacy, but some users are discovering that living in surveillance society is no longer "fun and cool". In my experience, the more complex Facebook's privacy settings get and the more connections I have on the site the more it feels like a third job. A sensation I have yet to experience on Twitter.
[Thanks to N'Gai Croal on Twitter and BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin for the leads].
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez is a documentary of Johnny Nunez from a black orphan in Brooklyn to the worlds most prominent Hip Hop Celebrity Photographer.
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By Dominique Brown
According to Extra TV 35-year-old Dawne Wilson was arrested last month for allegedly stalking movie producer and playwright Tyler Perry. It was reported that she allegedly disguised herself as a crew member on the grounds of Tyler Perry’s studio and managing to meet him. That’s not all, Mr. Perry says he also thinks she’s been emailing him, and sleeping in the woods of his Buckhead Estate. She has also been discussing her plans to marry him. Read more...
Ever since the feud between rappers Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace ended in violence, media feuds, or “Beef” have been more and more visible in more places and used as promotional tools. Daily Show host, John Stewart and “Mad Money” host, Jim Cramer had been feuding in the media for days leading up to Cramer’s appearance on Stewart’s show. The buzz on the appearance was talked about on every social network, and Stewart’s relentless ridicule of Cramer and CNBC is still buzzing on the net.
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My adventure Friday started with the Jesse Hernandez signing of the new Dun ny @ Kid Robot.. Here’s Artist Jesse Hernandez, at the Kid Robot-LA unveiling of his “Jaguar Warrior Dunny,” part of a four city tour.
To the untrained eye, Jesse Hernandez seems like an average artist, but one fan's "collectable" to be signed, gave an unexpected glimpse into his family life.
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