IN THIS ISSUE:

• WebWarrior: John Hanson, Zap the IRS
• Stop Shouting! (Digg Buries the Shout Feature)
• Baby Boomers Appear to Be Ditching Facebook

ALSO ON FHK THIS WEEK

• On Sovereignty Alliance: Stealth Anti-Federalism (Any Computer Crime is now a Federal Issue)
• Get a 'Gross National Debt' Gizmo for your Blog, by Orlando
• Twitter Not Always Annoying, by Paul Jacob

WEBWARRIOR: JOHN HANSON, ZAP THE IRS

This week’s WebWarrior is John Hanson, of Bristol, VA, of Let My People Go! and Zap the IRS social network on Ning.

John was nominated by Richard Michael (of FairTaxSpeaker.com also @FairTaxSpeaker on Twitter), who wrote:

[John Hanson's] primary focus is the income tax. His example has been emulated by the entire FairTax organization. And he’s always leading with new ideas, rather repeating things that haven’t gotten results in the past.

The Let My People Go! website is a valuable resource for activists, potential donors, the press, church groups, non-profits and anyone else seeking information about the Fair Tax proposal. Vistors to the site can add their support to the growing comment wall, here.

Hanson’s excellent use of SEO and keywords has earned him a spot on the front page SERPs of Google on a very popular topic: “repeal income tax“. Using social networking, he has also amassed a network of nearly 1500 “Zappers” and raised over $1,800 so far on his Ning social Network, Zap the IRS.

In this video, John Hanson explains what his network is about.

Thanks to Richard Michael (of FairTaxSpeaker.com for nominating this week’s WebWarrior.

STOP SHOUTING! (DIGG BURIES THE SHOUT FEATURE)

By Jenn

The ongoing attempt by Digg.com to fake a user-content generated, “democratic” website while pleasing it’s proressively-minded investors continues. After “tweaking” it’s algorithm to make “Diggs” (votes for stories) generated from shouts worth almost nothing, the front page still was not reflecting Digg admin’s desired results, so they’ve simply done away with the feature. Here’s part of what the Digg Bloggers had to say:

…As some of you know, shouts have been a controversial feature since their inception and considering the ever-changing landscape of the social web, we’ve elected to remove them in favor of more popular options. We’ve added easier access to sharing via email, Facebook and Twitter. As always, we want to encourage sharing and communication within our community and will continue to look into features that address these needs…

So, if you want to alert your friends about your great stories on Digg, you’ll need to do it via e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter. But be prepared. If it hasn’t happened already, Digg will find a way to make “Diggs” from those sites worthless as well.

Ministry of “Truthiness” - thy name is Digg.com.

10e20 has some good perspective and more details about the changes here.

Hat-Tip, Dr. Bill of the ARRA News Service

BABY BOOMERS APPEAR TO BE DITCHING FACEBOOK

By Orlando

Mashable.com is reporting that Baby Boomers are ditching Facebook–or so it seems.  All the trends seem to point out that those over 55 were bubble Baby Boomers on Facebook.  Well, the bubble seems to have burst.  As Mashable points out:

Between November 2008 and February 2009, the baby boomer set (age 55-65) was one of the fastest growing segments on the social network, up 175.3% for females and 137.8% for males, according to the statistics. But that user boom was short-lived, and those users aren’t returning in the same numbers.  In April and May there were actually 650,000 less users over the age of 55 on Facebook than the previous two months — the only age demographic where the site experienced a decrease in users over that period.

Well, so much for the older generation and technology.  Maybe it’s a return to snail mail.

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