Glenn Beck advertising boycott has right-wing bloggers worried

"You know, I must admit, when I first signed on to the Beck boycott I was participating on principal, but expected little or no impact.  Let's face it, we've done these before with little or no success.  But thanks to a combination of blatant race baiting and a...

Digg to Roll Out Ads, Users Will Bury Them

Digg is rolling out a new ad platform, in which ads will appear inline with other Digg headlines. Users can vote the ads up or down, which affects the price paid by the advertiser. We'll see how this plays out... we all know that netizens love free sites, but hate ads....

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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