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Digg's Popularity and Social Media Giant Facebook's - two of the largest social networks: Maybe you are registered to both... But do you know that the developers of Digg and Facebook joined teams recently to create a collaboration of the two sites?

Good idea, I keep meaning to stock up my car...

Quoted: Here are the essential items that everyone should keep in their vehicle, because you never know when a blown tire could turn into an overnight stay in a cold, lonely snowdrift.

Quoted: Broadband news, information and community, Speed tests and problem diagnosis tools

Eventually, if the marketing or PR management-consumer relations are acrimonious enough and the offenses grevious and plentiful enough in scope, I believe, there will be organizing, activism, and perhaps regulation among community members. Consumers will request and perhaps be legally required to be paid for their labor, just like everyone else. The party will be over. It will have been crashed, corporate style. (Look familiar anyone?)

Or else they will just collectively agree to call your help lines. Get their friends and families to call. And call them a lot.

The other thing that sticks in my craw–and it is not unrelated to the first point- is the way these consumer community members are referred to in casual conversation by managers, consultants, and marketers. Online community members and technical contributors are referred to as lonely geeks who have nothing better to do with their time.

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Quoted: Awesome cover by Solange Knowles of the song Stillness is the Move by Dirty Projectors mixed with some "Bumpy's Lament" by Soul Mann & the Brothers sampled b...

Quoted: Over the last few weeks I've started to suffer from Four Square fatigue. After all, Four Square is a lot of work. To get the benefits of Four Square, you need to proactively check in wherever you go. And, while each checkin requires a relatively small amount of work, in the aggregate, it takes real effort to make the most of the Four Square experience.

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Quoted: ““It’s obvious that if you look at leaves, they have a lot of loops,” Katifori says. To find out how the looped networks may be beneficial for the plants, the researchers created a computer model to compare how efficiently different branching patterns could do the job of leaf veins, which move water and nutrients around. “The question we’re asking is, what’s the best network we can build?”

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Quoted: AccuWeather.com forecast video for the coming Snowpocalypse in the DC/Baltimore area shows meteorologist Jim Kosek freaking out a little about the storm. Oh boy.