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Burger King's bizarre “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign — which offered a free burger if you unfriended ten Facebook friends — has started a debate about the etiquette of giving people the online axe. More »
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Yesterday, in her Erma Bombeck-meets-"Circuits" New York Times column "Cyberfamilias," Michelle Slatalla takes on the not-so-thorny issue of internet advice sites. Quoth she: "the Internet has evolved into an avuncular, all-knowing presence that offers soothing suggestions from everyone in the world on how to fix anything." So popular an oracle is the internet — or the millions of random know-it-alls who provide answers on these sites — that "comScore Inc., which measures Internet traffic, that the number of visitors at Help.com has increased by 73 percent in the last year, jumping to 316,000 last month, up from 183,000 in July 2007. Or that Yahoo Answers, the category leader, had 34.6 million visitors last month." More »
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