The user behind the amateur sleuth page followed 'round the world is now admitting, in an interview with The Atlantic Wire, that his communal photo hunt was "doomed from the start" but that Reddit's community is seeking answers — not about the ongoing investigation so much as about what went right... and what went so very wrong.
When Reddit likes something, it gets really really liked. After someone posted a photo of a Kenyan orphanage worker who took a machete to the face while fending off the thieves, the Associated Press reports the site raised $80,000 in less than a week for the orphanage.
Other big Internet players haven't rallied behind Jimmy Wales, after the Wikipedia founder confirmed that the site would go dark this Wednesday to protest SOPA.
It's been speculated, and now it's confirmed: Wikipedia plans to give its users a (severe) taste of the Internet under SOPA by going offline in protest of the bill on Wednesday.
The latest grumblings (or lack thereof) from the lawmakers on Capitol Hill suggest that they're coming around to the idea that the latest anti-piracy efforts in the House and the Senate might've been a little hasty.
With the announcement that Reddit will go dark next Wednesday the protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is getting real.
After a Hollywood-heavy panel of witnesses at the first hearing for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last month thoroughly outraged everyone, the House of Representatives is bringing in the nerds.
The latest plan concocted by hactivist types to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is pretty weird.
Reddit users forced Paul Ryan to defend his stance on SOPA on Thursday after their users started a website campaigning against him, but once it was revealed he's never supported the bill an internal debate among the up-voting chorus has emerged over whether they chose the right target or not.
Go Daddy's CEO has confirmed that the internet did in fact follow through on its promise to stop using the popular domain hosting site, moving their domains elsewhere after the company's initial support for the Stop Online Piracy Act
Link-sharing Website Reddit forced Congressman Paul Ryan to defend his position on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act Thursday after the Internet hive-mind pledged its support for his opponent, Democrat Rob Zerban, a harsh critic of the anti-piracy legislation.
Sure, we knew that China some air pollution problems, but this photo getting attention on Reddit drives the point home.
Faced with a Reddit-powered boycott, Go Daddy, the domain registrar and maker of sexy television commercials, will no longer support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) -- but Wikipedia is going to boycott Go Daddy regardless.
As anybody who's visited the site will admit, the power of the Reddit crowd is impressive if it's on your side, but you don't want to get on Reddit's bad side. Just ask the bean counters at Go Daddy.
On the heels of the release of his latest show, Live at the Beacon Theater, comedian and star of his FX show Louie Louis C.K. made a visit to Reddit, participating in the site's ask me anything thread.
The Internet activist is accused of downloading millions of files from a library archive
Two weeks after its cloud services crashed, the company comes forward
Reddit, Hootsuite, Quora and Foursquare all have been impacted by Amazon's outage
The 74-time Jeopardy! champion says you can ask him anything
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