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...hours of Tuesday morning last week, someone pressed a button in the Palo Alto offices of Facebook.com, and inadvertently started a not-so-small revolt...
...issue is poisonous enough to have provoked a revolt by a few imperiled Republican candidates, who either have refused to follow the White House advice to beat the war drums or are modifying it drastically to try to save their skin. Representative Tom Reynolds of New York, chairman of the House Republican campaign committee, says that local issues are more important than national security. "The national media always asks, 'What's your national issue?'" says Reynolds. "We don't have a national issue." At least, that's his hope. Most of the Republicans in tough races who distance themselves from...
...Facebook?s quick response is the result of a surprising and spontaneous revolt by the site's Gen-Y users. By Friday morning, more than 745,000 users had joined the anti-News Feed group "Students Against Facebook News Feed (Official Student Petition)." A Northwestern University student had created that group only 72 hours earlier. Similarly, a University of Illinois student launched the web site SaveFacebook.com, and University of Florida students were set to boycott Facebook on Sept. 12, before Facebook made its about-face, following a storm of media attention...
...Facebook revolt the sign of growing revolutionary activism among the Internet generation? Not really. Granted, the protests got Facebook to back down: the website modified its News Feed, and students feel that their privacy has been restored. But all the students did was click a button to join an Anti-News Feed group on Facebook or sign the online petition - a protest that took less than a minute. There were no massive demonstrations or a significant boycott. Facebook's membership has continued to increase every day since the News Feed was implemented. And were Facebook itself not the subject...
...more parents in homework-heavy districts take such actions? Do too many of us think it's just our child who is struggling, so who are we to lead a revolt? Yup, when it comes to the battle of homework mountain, we've got too many Indians and not enough sachems...