Clever. And, potentially very damaging to the owners of Digg who may be involved in valuation exercises with potential investors and may have other ways of telling their story.

Guess what. Autobury exists. Despite questions being sidestepped by Jay Adelson (who answered a direct question about autobury by asking Why would we want to do that?), there is too much evidence to the contrary.

So, my summary is that I think Digg remains mostly a US phenomenon with most of the users signing up while at work.

DRM may be dying, but network filtering of copyrighted material is alive and well. Over the next few months, two different filtering initiatives from Big Content could both come to fruition, bringing the magic of Big Brother to colleges and ISP's.

We should treat personal electronic data with the same care and respect as weapons-grade plutonium

Sensationalist title, I know. But apparently it’s true. The Economist cites a study by Dr. Daniel Hamermesh of the University of Texas: The accumulating evidence suggests that physical characteristics do give clues about intelligence...

“I don’t want the campaign at this stage to degenerate into so much tit-for-tat, back-and-forth, that we lose sight of why all of us are doing this,” Mr. Obama told reporters at a news conference here.

Black security workers union greets HRC with smattering of catcalls in wake of her comments about civil rights hero.

Comcast Corp. Monday said it has received letters of inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission regarding complaints that the company actively interferes with its subscribers' Internet traffic.