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- The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg
  Posted by Jeff from Readwriteweb
  Fueled partly by a need to counter false accusations from disgruntled community members who claim that Digg is rigged (i.e. that a core group of users decide what content is promoted), partly by the desire to encourage non-core members to participate more passionately, and partly by a need to affect a level of diversity and equality that would appear promising to potential acquirers, Digg has changed its algorithm again and again.
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  puts self on grill | news-press.com | The News-Press
  Posted by RobCottingham from News-press
  A senior Burger King VP is charged with posting harsh attacks against his critics of his company's labor policies under an assumed name.
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- Mainstream Media Finally Catching On To How News Propagates
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  According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well -- sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come to them. In essence, they are replacing the professional filter -- reading The Washington Post, clicking on CNN.com -- with a social one.
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- Privacy vs. technology, freedom vs. convenience: it’s only going to get worse
  Posted by udamnskippy from Scholarsandrogues
  Perhaps innovation and individual liberties aren’t inherently opposed, but a glance around the landscape suggests the difficulty in investing more deeply in the bounty of tech-enabled consumerism without sacrificing our personal privacy. Thousands of Facebook users and millions of online shoppers say they’re worried already. If so, the next decade promises to be absolutely terrifying.
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- Yahoo Plans to Let Users Help Mold New Feature
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  The Buzz service borrows heavily from other so-called social news aggregators, like Digg and Reddit, as it asks users to “vote” on items they like. Items with the most votes, or buzz, will earn prominent placement. But the Buzz service is different in some important ways. Rather than turn Buzz into a Web destination for users, Yahoo plans to include the content that surfaces through Buzz on its front page.
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- Slashdot Founder Questions Crowds Wisdom
  Posted by Jeff from Bits.blogs.nytimes
  “I try not to paint Digg as my arch-nemesis. The Digg method and Digg community are a wider audience than Slashdot,” he said. “But with sites like Digg, it’s the wisdom of the crowds or the tyranny of the mob. You never know what you’re going to get.”
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- Will OpenSocial help Google reorganize into the first Galactic Empire?
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  The big news in the tech world this week was Google's unveiling of OpenSocial, a set of programming tools that will enable members of multiple social networks to share files and information across different platforms. Noticeably absent from the alliance supporting OpenSocial were the two 800-lb. gorillas of the social networking world...
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