I’ve been looking over the Digg TOS for any explicit text dealing with paid submissions and I just can’t find it! Perhaps you could take a minute to read their TOS and let me know? In the Digg TOS there is this one section on user conduct: As a condition of use, you promise not…
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Digg makes more changes
Well, Digg went down for a short time today to make some changes to their website. When they came back up there was no new post on the Digg blog. I took a quick look around the site and these are the changes I found: 1) The information under a story, as to where it…
Saying Goodbye to Digg
In a recent posting on Digg’s blog Kevin Rose has stated that the top diggers list will soon be gone. The reason Kevin Rose gives is rather strange: “Which leads me to a disappointing trend that we’ve noticed over the past several months. Some of our top users – the people that have spent hundreds…
Digg advertising
It’s a good thing that Diggers do not click on ads. If Diggers went to a website en-masse and all of them clicked a CPC advertising link on the way out Google AdWords would run out of inventory and the on line advertising market would crash! Think about it, a good Digg Effect can generate…
Of Digg, Dupes and Top Diggers
A popular topic of discussion on Digg is that of dupes and what happens when a top digger dupes a story. I am going to look at two recent examples of this and show you what happened. Our first item is a story that was submitted by a member with no front paged stories (MomoTheCow)…
Digg and the Myth of the Top Digger
I’m not suggesting that top diggers are a myth; instead I am going to debunk the myth that top diggers control Digg. Digg is a social news aggregation site where members (or diggers) submit interesting news items, videos, podcasts and other links to the community at large. The other diggers then throw their support behind…
Does Digg Lack Diversity
I’m not talking about a diversity of opinions. You need only glance at the comments on a front page story to know that diggers have a wide variety of opinions no matter what the subject! Some of these opinions are funny and others are not so funny. What I am talking about is a diversity…
I’ve Been Blog Scraped!
I can’t believe it! I was looking at referral links on my blog and I saw one from Digg. I did not recognize it so I checked it out as I wanted to see who submitted my blog to Digg. Boy was I in for a surprise! Someone scrapped one of my blog entries, changed…
How Much is the Digg Home Page Worth?
A lot of people wonder just how much money a front paged story on Digg is worth. My blog has made it there at least once and I’m going tell you what I made off of it. This may vary for others. This is a screen cap of my AdSense earnings from a few days…
Digg: The Wisdom of Crowds
A lot has been said about Kevin Rose’s desire to harness the “Wisdom of Crowds” on Digg and a recent submission to Digg talks some more about this. Kevin Rose was all about the “Wisdom of Crowds” when he thought up Digg, it has instead become “Animal Farm” where some Diggers are more equal than…