Among Reddit’s distinctive features, a measure of hero worship and community outpourings of affection for certain personalities is certainly one. And one of the site’s most major favorite dudes, for good reason, is astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who has even […]
Back in August, Reddit spun off its popular gift-exchange arm to a separate site, RedditGifts. At the time, the social aggregator took on the subreddit’s two mods as full-time employees, and now the newly-minted former subreddit is launching its first […]
While Digg continues on its spectacular decline, rival Reddit seems to be racking up traffic each month and turning out impressive stats after impressive stats. Late last night/early today, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian tweeted about the traffic stats on the […]
While I was away from the internet for a hundred years and two weeks, one of the stories I briefly caught seemed to be the feel good Reddit story of the year. A redditor (who also like, won Jeopardy twice or something) […]
Would you travel to your nearest major city to meet up with other Reddit users? That’s the question the site posed to users today on their blog and in a highly-trafficked post on the site itself. 700-ish Redditors (update: 860+) […]
Reddit is getting a bit of a rep- at least on Gawker Media sites (cough Jezebel cough)- for its heavily male vibe (and arguably at least a little) misogynist bent. The testosterone-heavy environment isn’t the only controversial aspect of the […]
Hey everyone, 30% of Reddit has a girlfriend! Well, maybe a boyfriend. Rapidly-growing social aggregator reddit has surveyed 30,000 of the users of the popular aggregator, releasing some of the collected demographic data in a handy CSV file. In a […]
Lots of big stuff going on at reddit lately, with announcements from the aggregator coming fast and furious in the past week or so. First it was announced the tiny team was taking on the two mods responsible for the […]
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich seems to be on a bit of a social media tear lately. Not too long after starring in a viral clip humorously describing the credit crisis, Reich graced the “Ask Me Anything” subreddit, answering […]
The admins at reddit have updated their official blog, describing to readers just how massive the site has become in the past 15 months. It may seem that reddit is everywhere- high-profile AMAs with lawmakers, possibly inspiring a massive rally […]
One of the things that makes Reddit so well-loved in its space on the social web is its unusually strong, trusting and closely-knit community- maybe a bit like the message boards that used to reign the web before social media […]
News aggregation means big business these days, that fact became apparent when AOL purchased the Huffington Post for $315 million. While HuffPost does offer many excellent original news stories, at the time of sale more than 3,000 bloggers helped aggregate […]
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