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I try to tread lightly on the snarky side of cultural criticism, but when I saw that, for some odd reason, several of the week's most popular "Arts & Culture" articles on Digg had to do with tattoos, I just couldn't resist a sort of counterpoint. Tattoos, it seems, are rapidly falling away as...

There has been a lot of talk lately concerning the ethics of Facebook's privacy policy. And it seems there are just as many critics as supporters. Popular opinion ranges from folks criticizing the social network's corporate approach to user information as lucrative marketing fodder, to defenders of...

In what might prove the future of advertising, Burger King is taking its "small hands" campaign to the Internet by sponsoring searches that return no results on the incredibly popular Digg.com. The ads, which feature a man with tiny hands too small to grasp a hamburger, had appeared briefly last...

The purchase of investment blog Abnormal Returns by Twitter-like Stocktwits may signal a new trend in online finance: It's called the real-time Web. Investors can get an instant snapshot of the sentiment of other investing pros by joining an immediate and constant online conversion.

The top executives at some of the biggest internet companies on the planet -- as well as the hottest upstarts -- have joined the fight for net neutrality, the principle that broadband providers should not favor their own programming over competing content. Among the executives that signed a letter...

There's no shortage of coupon sites on the Internet, which makes standing out a difficult task ... and all that more impressive when a new competitor emerges. WalletPop was able to score an exclusive interview with Luke Knowles, the founder of Coupon Sherpa and FreeShipping.org, to find out what...

People hoping to hit the big time with the next "one-off" viral video on YouTube can, beginning today, earn a lot more than Internet fame. The popular video-sharing Web site is changing its revenue-sharing program to allow you to earn cash for your viral videos.The addition of "one-off" videos to...

In an exchange that must have warmed the hearts of every journalist accused of not getting his facts straight, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answered some tartly worded questions from the Digg online community in a video forum in which he, among other things, attempted to dispel rumors about...

URL address shortening Website tr.im will no longer be providing the service to the public because there's no money to be made. Makes you wonder how other URL shortening companies can survive. "There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening -- users won't pay for it -- and we just can't justify...

In a trendy beverage progression he describes as "Red Bulls, coffee, and everything else," Digg founder Kevin Rose has now arrived at an ancient plateau: tea. He tells Wired Magazine that his company now spends $1,000 a month on special teas for his employees, including his favorite, Pu-erh from...