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The future of Reddit
Reddit's best year ever might also have been its worst. The massive online community whiplashed between public-relations extremes in 2012, from a presidential visit to a series of high-profile...
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Egyptian women's rights activist under fire for racist past on Twitter
Your Twitter past will haunt you. Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim was set to be feted in Washington today for taking on the country's powerful military after she and other protesters were subjected...
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"Stop Girl" reveals her identity to ESPN, breaks Reddit's heart
Yet another Internet meme is a mystery no more. In September 2010, an unidentified female student attended a football game at the University of Arizona. As the game progressed, her excitement turned...
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Texas megachurch encourages tweeting for Jesus
A megachurch in Houston, Texas is telling its congregants to keep their cell phones in the on position during Sunday services, and encouraging them to tweet, Facebook, and use other social media apps...
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How censorship works on China's most popular social network
With a population of a billion people, most of whom seem to be on the Web at any given time, China is the acknowledged champion of online censorship. It’s no small task, combining filtering...
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Why did the Vatican block access to a sex abuse registry?
The Vatican has elected to block access to BishopAccountability.org, a site devoted to “documenting the abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church.” It's either a jackass move or just a glitch....
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Fandom_Wank, Web's biggest repository of fan drama, turns 10
Don’t be put off by Fandom_Wank’s rather dubious name. By its own definition, this popular community is dedicated to “Self-aggrandizing posturing. Fannish absurdities. Circular ego-stroking. Endless...
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Anita Sarkeesian faces backlash for disabling YouTube comments
In celebration of International Women’s Day, people are taking to the Internet to complain about Anita Sarkeesian. The first installment of her long-awaited video series about sexism in video games...
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Grumpy Cat is not a fan of SXSW
Everyone is excited to be in Austin. Except for Grumpy Cat. The Internet's beloved cat, named Tardar Sauce or “Tard” for short, was at South By Southwest's Interactive festival Thursday as part of a...
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One Direction pull tattoo plea because tweens might try to ink themselves
One Direction pulled a Twitter and Facebook request for fans to send in photos of their 1D tattoos over concern that it would encourage underage fans to ink "I <3 HARRY" on themselves."Have a real...
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Scottish prisoners use Facebook mobile to score, display drugs
Scottish prisoners are using Facebook to obtain drugs behind bars, take pictures, and brag about their illegal activities. But now the fun's over: Authorities are cracking down. Inmates, convicted of...
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Phone thief sends smoke selfie to victim's Facebook page
.teaser img { display: none; } A Bronx man who lifted a cellphone is wanted by police after taking a photo of himself seemingly getting high—and uploading it to his victim's Facebook page. He didn't...
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Woman arrested for trying to sell her kids on Facebook
An Oklahoma woman was arrested last week after police found that she'd used Facebook to try to sell her two children. Sallisaw native Misty Van Horn, 22, was taken to Sequoyah County Jail Wednesday...
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You can now fire a paintball gun just by tweeting
We've finally found the most important and useful thing Twitter has done in its seven-year history. Creative agency iStrategyLabs has set up a paintball gun so it will fire when you use the hashtag...
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Fantasy Pope: Pick the next head of the Catholic Church online
If you missed out on your Oscar ballot predictions or are a fan of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, then FantasyPope.com may be the site for you. Created by Texas law professor Josh Blackman, Fantasy...
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The 10 best tales of online drama from 10 years of Fandom_Wank
Fandom Wank may be languishing away in an unappreciated corner of fandom the days, away from a new generation of Tumblr-centric fans, but the Internet’s premier fandom gossip site has given us a decade...
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5 Vatican watchers to follow during the papal conclave
Who the next Pope will be is important to many more people than there are Catholics. He’s both the head of a state and of a religion. He influences relations among peoples and religious communities in...
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3-D gun printer Cody Wilson launches search engine
Cody Wilson has moved on from guns. The 25-year-old face of Defense Distributed, a libertarian-leaning organization that hopes to build the world's first gun comprised entirely of 3-D-printed...
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Gamer dad hacks his way to gender equality
Are open-source hacks the way to finally achieve gender equality in games? Last year gamer dad Mike Hoye made ripples in geek culture when he genderbent the classic Legend of Zelda for his 3-year-old...
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Twitter community, celebs team up to help jokester's family
Twitter's capacity for positive change came to the fore again as the community rallied behind the family of a woman stricken by a brain hemorrhage and small stroke. Matt Parise, a.k.a. @sucittaM, is a...
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