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Former Sen. Norm Coleman’s recent comment that the future of the GOP lies in the “ethernet” — first reported on by the Minnesota Independent — gets an honorable mention in Talking Points Memo’s list of the “Top 7 Conservative New Media FAILS So Far this Year.” But Norm’s no match for other conservatives on the [...]

A Facebook group is hoping three days of phonecalls to Norm Coleman’s campaign office may convince the former senator to give up his lawsuit and let Al Franken get started in the Senate. The “Norm’s Gotta Go Virtual Protest,” an email and call-in campaign begun yesterday and running through Friday, attempts to hold Coleman to [...]

A popular but embattled social networking service may still have PR problems concerning privacy — and so might its CEO.

Late last week a computer security expert reported that even if Facebook users are not logged in to their account and have not opted in to the Beacon service, third-party vendors are still sending information [...]

In what interest groups are calling a victory for personal privacy, the popular social networking site Facebook.com said Thursday night it would make changes to its new Beacon service.

The service, which collects a wide array of personal data from third-party vendors and delivers it to Facebook for inclusion in users’ news feeds, has come under [...]

When you use Facebook, the popular social networking service, do you know where your personal data might end up?
The rapidly expanding site, recently valued at $15 billion, has continually added features that allow users to keep track of  friends and acquaintances in unique ways, such as the News Feed, a series of mini-stories about what [...]