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Last night was the second Digg Townhall, a live session hosted online by Digg founder Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson. Like before, Kevin asked Digg users to post their

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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), have launched an application development contest on both Google's Open Social and the Facebook Platform. The contest calls for developers to

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of blogs dedicated to the environment on the Internet. That's really no surprise given that environmental conservation is one of the most pressing issues

In New York City, on the 16th floor of the Roger Smith Hotel, we caught up with social media superhero Baratunde Thurston, web editor for The Onion. Thurston started getting

The social news utility Feedly announced on its blog that it just added the ability to perform a supplemental search on content it knows about on any of a number

We've written in the past about Twitter's emergence as a platform for serious discourse, and it's true that some serious discussions about technology, politics, religion, and all sorts of important

The knock on the type of representative democracy that is employed in the US is that the people aren't actually voting on the legislation that gets passed -- representatives for

FreedomSpeaks.com is an L.A.-based startup dedicated to taking the friction out of civic engagement. The site, a politically neutral platform for activism, allows registered users to identify and communicate with

Tech media business blog PaidContent unearthed some big, unannounced funding this weekend for Christian video sharing site GodTube. The site, which combines short and long form Flash video with chat