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Well, it’s official: Rupert Murdoch (illustrated here in an episode of "The Simpsons") is the reigning king of corporate media and nothing sacred is safe from his grasp. According to The Wall Street Journal , News Corp has now secured enough votes ...

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Palm Beach County, Florida, is in the news again for another election mishap. This time the culprit isn't the county's infamous butterfly ballot that made headlines in the 2000 presidential race. Instead, the problem is ballots used with the county's ...

3,400 Ballots Missing in Florida Election: Recount Flips Race - Wired

The Department of Homeland Security should not use the user-generated Wikipedia to decide whether an asylum seeker can enter the United States, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. That judicial statement of the obvious (.pdf) from the 8th U.S ...

Asylum-Seeker Rejected Based On Wikipedia, Appeals Court Reverts - Wired

The "social-networking" gold rush continues. Last year, MySpace was acquired by News Corp. for $580 million in cash. Now the other big social-networking sites are the subject of rumors, deals, and transactions. Yahoo! was interested in acquiring ...

The Death of the Credit Card Economy - Slate

Librarian Bette Ammon e-mailed a few minutes ago to say that "Water the Elephants," the first selection for the new Huckleberries Online Book Club, arrived at the library Friday. They'll be available this evening. Three are reserved, including one by ...

Update: Library Has 10 Copies of "Water for Elephants" - Spokane Spokesman-Review

Perhaps taking inspiration from our reddit widget experiment in May when we solicited reader questions for John McCain surrogate Carly Fiorina, Digg (a competitor to Wired.com 's reddit) is partnering with CNN to solicit its community's questions for ...

Pelosi To Face Tough Questions On Leadership From Online Crowd - Wired

Sean Penn, the actor-director-turned-political-activist, narrates a new anti-war documentary that alleges U.S. presidents since Kennedy have manipulated the public to wage wars. The searing documentary coincides with the fifth anniversary of the U.S ...

Penn's War: Media Lap Dogs Backed Iraq Mess - Common Dreams

(AXcess News) Reno, NV - According to the latest report from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), which is compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), online ad spending in 2006 rose 34 percent over the prior year, but don't start celebrating just ...

Online Ad Spending Rose Last Year, But Don't Start Celebrating Just ... - Axcess News

One piece of advice that should've been obvious to participants of last weekend's Rental Car Rally from Long Island City, New York, to Montreal, Quebec: use GPS. Or so I figured, as one member of a three-person team equipped with a MacBook, an EVDO ...

The Social - CNET News

Someday, Alvaro Albarracin may step back and smile when he thinks about how he guided his company through the dot-com implosion of the past two years. Of course, that would require looking back, and Mr. Albarracin prefers looking ahead. He is already ...