chestnut501 From ABC News and the Washington Post to film critic Roger Ebert and Digg founder and CEO Kevin Rose’s Twitter feeds www.alternet.org   Advertisement   ” Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered spread like wildfire through the media and social networking sites Major online- and technology-focused sites dug into the story, including Mashable , CNET , PC Magazine , and ReadWriteWeb Ben Parr of Mashable The revelation of the Digg Patriots censorship conspiracy is a major black eye for the social media giant Kevin Rose built. It undermines the fundamental credibility of Digg itself. If 100 users can single-handedly tilt one of the world’s top websites to the right by controlling thousands of stories, how can you really rely on Digg as a valid source for the web’s top news stories? For what it’s worth, Kevin Rose tweeted that the company is “looking into this but it doesn’t solve the fundamental issue: that Digg is easily gamed The story has been itself “dugg” 10,000 times linked to across other social news sites British actor Stephen Fry tweeted the story to his 1.6 million followers, along with Roger Ebert and thousands of others news , media , social_media , censorship , internet , technology , digg , digg_patriots , right_wing , conservatives

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drgreenfingers web.orange.co.uk Obama’s ’secret hip hop past’ President Obama may have appeared in a music video as a young rapper, according to a rumour sweeping the internet. A smiling young man who bears a striking resemblance to the then future president appears briefly in the 1993 video for Whoomp (There It Is). The promo for the release, by hip hop outfit Tag Team, is on YouTube and the Obama lookalike appears just after 1.00 minute. Suggestions that the future leader of the free world, a hip hop fan, had found time in his pre-presidential days to join a video shoot swept the internet.

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ratilfar In doing so, he’s joining a growing chorus of mayors, including Chicago’s Richard Daley and Boston’s Thomas Menino, who are ever more insistently drawing attention to what Ryan calls the country’s “skewed national priorities,” especially the local impact of military and war spending. With more than three years left in his current term, Ryan has decided to pull out all the stops to reach his neighbors and constituents, all 47,000 of them, especially the near quarter of the city’s inhabitants who currently live below the poverty line and the 9% who are officially unemployed. www.salon.com Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton , New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities “squabble over crumbs,” as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon’s coffers and into America’s wars.

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zoneweb weblover.inforants%3Ft%3D0%26p%3D0%26epf%3D1%26epi%3D830 The Bears and Julius Peppers finalized a six-year deal to bring the top free agent in 2010 to Chicago, according to a source. Read more

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kukim77 The four plaintiffs are not stereotypical gun rights advocates. Rather, they are the kind of hard-working, law-abiding Chicagoans that opponents of the handgun ban say should be allowed to protect themselves. “Some people want to stereotype advocates in any case, to make them look like a bunch of crazies,” said Alan Gura, a Virginia attorney who will argue the case. “But these are plaintiffs who reflect the city in which they live.” www.msnbc.msn.com Otis McDonald glances out the window in his south side home.

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