Daily News Channel
Let’s just say it. The whole thing sounds insane. For six days, people from across the world — accountants, school teachers, farmers, CEOs — will run 150 miles, the equivalent of five consecutive marathons, across one of southern Africa’s most remote landscapes.
In keeping with the democratic nature of user-generated media, Facebook is inviting its 150 million users to help decide how the online gathering place is run. A week after a policy-change blunder sparked widespread protests, the Web’s most popular social-networking site announced a new approach Thursday to give users more control over future Facebook rules and practices