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Finding the Luminato Red Ball - Toronto Creativity Arts Festival
The Luminato Creativity Arts Festival is represented by a huge Red Ball public display installation, by artist Kurt Perschke, that has made an attention grabbing bouncing landing in the downtown Toronto Area as part... ‘Blagojevich’ Not Found on Transition Web Site
In a Politico.com post today, Ben Smith writes about censorship of citizens’ input in a new section launched today on Barack Obama’s Transition Team web site, Change.gov:"President-elect Barack Obama’s... Techmeme turns to curated news
For all the algorithms and clusters of Commodore 64s that are keeping Techmeme running, it seems as though the fully automated, self aware TechmemBot hasn't quite replaced humans just yet. Joining the ranks of...Defective by Design's 35 day Holiday Boycott List
35 days until the end of 2008 gives Defective by Design 35 chances to unveil 35 DRM-ladened products that they think consumers should boycott this year. Just in time for the biggest buying time of the year, the... World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Obama's the next president and the newest expansion for World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King, is coming out next week; the world is good. I know several people who've been biting at the bit in anticipation of...
created by Jason Sanders | 34 wks ago | updated 32 wks ago
3005 views | 14 recommendations | 11 comments
3005 views | 14 recommendations | 11 comments
Gamers are richer and have better lives than you
2008 is a great time to be a member of the technology elite: they're smarter, richer, and fitter than the average citiz3n. In addition to the digg-bait studies that explain why computers, video games, and weed...
created by Jason Sanders | 35 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago
915 views | 10 recommendations | 29 comments
915 views | 10 recommendations | 29 comments
"Out of the Office" E-mail Ends Up On Welsh Road Sign
An e-mail mix-up led a town in Wales to create a road sign that read "I am not in the office at the moment" in Welsh.Officials in the coastal town of Swansea wanted to erect a sign that read "No entry for heavy... Nudists Fight For Their Right To Vote Naked
A nudist resort in Florida is hoping to set up a clothing-optional polling booth for Tuesday's US election. Residents of Caliente Resorts, the largest nudist colony in the US, are hoping to create a polling place where residents can vote in the buff if they so choose. More...Digg's Kevin Rose: We've Got to Be More Relevant
There remains a huge gap between Web 2.0 theory and Web 2.0 practice: User-generated content sites, rather than having an even vaguely homogenous user base in terms of contribution, remain divided between an... Digg Revolution: Call Made for Blog Posts From Users
For the last couple of years, Digg has seen its ups and downs. They have gone through two previous revolts: 1 that resulted in them allowing the HD-DVD codes to be published on the site and one that... Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth
I found this interesting enough to share with NP. Nothing more to add yet.""There's a persistent Web meme to the effect that Google obscures sensitive or top-secret locations in Google Maps and Google Earth at the insistence of national governments. A July IT Security article...Top User 'Zaibatsu' Banned from Digg
Digg's top user, Zaibatsu, has been banned from the social news recommendation site, after alleged repeat violations of the site's Terms of Service. "There's more user unrest in the community of popular social...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 40 wks ago | updated 40 wks ago
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141 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Top Digg User Accused of Cheating
"""""MrBabyMan ExposedPLEASE Ban MrBabyManMrBabyMan Reads So Fast!Wah Wah Wah*""""(*Not actual headline, but describes participants)"The top member of the social news site, digg.com, is under fire for his suspicious account activities. Mrbabyman, Disney Animator Andrew...
created by Jason Sanders | 42 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago
176 views | 2 recommendations | 5 comments
176 views | 2 recommendations | 5 comments
Kingmaker: Selling Influence on Digg
"You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours" is a common method of mutual site promotion, in which bloggers, site managers, and writers team up with each other across the ether to promote their respective work on...Digg Crowdsources Convention Interviews
Citizen engagement with political processes has never been as diffuse and 'technified' as it is today. Although crowdsourcing interview questions for politicians isn't a particularly radical or new concept of...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 44 wks ago | updated 44 wks ago
194 views | 7 recommendations | 3 comments
194 views | 7 recommendations | 3 comments
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