Tag: METAFILTER

Ask MetaFilter poster Dan Reetz reached out to the community on that site to ask for help when he discovered that a friend of his -- an ex-student from Russia -- may have found herself caught up in a human trafficking scam. She and a friend had traveled to the US on the promise of work when they arrived, only to have the job offer mysteriously dry up. The thread is an emotional roller coaster, as ...

Newsified is a simple, but brilliant, idea. Take your favorite social news sites, the ones you normally read on the web or through RSS, and lay them out like ... a newspaper. It's an old-school approach that actually proves really useful when it comes to deep sites like Metafilter and Digg. You only see a small percentage of the popular content on the front pages of these sites, but Newsified ...