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Reddit Secret Santa Gift Exchange: Insanely Successful

kickme444 (Dan McComas when he's at home) orchestrated the Reddit Secret Santa gift exchange in his free time. Dan McComas built the front-end and back-end of a dedicated website to link Reddit users from around...

Reddit Attacked By Comment Spam Comment Bomb

Reddit got attacked by rogue h4x0rz who found a way to insert comment bombs. The malefactors have found a way to turn you into a comment spammer against your will! Basically, mousing over a comment would execute a...

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...

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...

Review: In 'The Pyramid,' Mankell creates strange lands but familiar human fr...

"The four short mystery stories and title novella in The Pyramid form a prequel to nine other books featuring Inspector Kurt Wallander, author Henning Mankell's best known, singularly captivating hero."

A blog about technology from BBC News

"Do we really need another news aggregator to follow in the footsteps of Google News, Digg, Reddit, Netvibes and the rest? Well, the founders of NewsCred have decided we do - and they reckon they've got two killer angles which will make their service, launched today, into a...

Alexa to exclude Social Media Traffic to be taken into account

"Alexa no longer counts traffic that a site gains from social media sites like Digg and Reddit. For people whose traffic Last two to three weeks have been good due to social media buzz, they have noticed that it...

Ice Cream Man Busted for Smoking Weed in His Truck

Yes, this was part of the plot of Trees Lounge."Deputies responding to a call at about 5:30 p.m. about a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot near 5226 Applegate Road approached an ice cream truck with the name "Hokey Pokey" on the side and rear.Inside the truck was Westberry...

Reddit To Be Magically Transformed Into TV News

You've all been waiting for it. Ready? Here's the pitch: Reddit headlines as a televised news show. Pretty amazing right? Yeah, I know.Well, fear not, news aggregators and Diggnation rivals, because here comes...

Clinton to Bush Boycott Olympics

DRUDGE: Clinton to Bush,  Boycott Olympics Opening CeremonyUpdate 1326 ETLeaders led by German chancellor Angela Merkel have made plans to boycott the opening ceremony to press China for its crackdown in Tibet. A coalition of groups trying to end the Sudanese...

Media Killed the Bookmarking Star: del.icio.us traffic falls below StumbleUpo...

Originally Published at Social News Watch. For the first time in over a year, del.icio.us, the social bookmarking darling that made it cool to share your favorites, has fallen in traffic below social media powerhouses reddit.com and StumbleUpon according to compete.com’s...

Dodd, Biden drop out after Iowa defeat

"Dodd, Biden drop out after Iowa defeat By: Martin Kady II January 4, 2008 01:52 AM EST   Two Senate veterans — Democrats Joe Biden of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut — are abandoning their...

drankkit: Social Networking, But In Person

In order to qualify it as a "world tour", social link-sharing engineers at reddit popped up to Toronto as part of their open-bar meet-and-greet tour; the Canadian megalopolis was shoehorned in between New York and...

SEO blog recommends NowPublic

It is well known amongst seasoned NP users that our site can give anyone a good search engine boost.  Now a prominent search engine optimization blogger has put together a list of useful tips and NP is on...

The Revolution Will Not Be Socialized -- The Homogenization of Social Media

Almost since the first web-page was displayed upon the first browser over the tiny and fragile networks that would eventually become the Internet, technophiles have been trying to figure out what the World Wide Web really is. In the early 1990s we thought it was a library....

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