There is trouble in the magical land of Digg. Bury Brigades are attacking, Spammers are lurking, politicos are dirtying the public waterways and those nasty SEO types are trying to take over! What ever shall we do? Who will hear our cries? Who will lead the way? Never fear good diggers for residing in the…
Tag: Social Media
Digg of the Day: Drug Dealers vs. Software Developers: how similar they are!
Both refer to their clients as ‘users’, offer the first one for ‘free’ and have ‘Asian’ connections. Hmmm… is there some cross-over here?I found this by using StumbleUpon and thought I might Digg it as well. There are some similar entries on Digg but this one is a little bit longer.If you like it Digg…
My Digg of the day 2-27-07: The 7 worst sexy toys for children
I could not believe this when I found it. It reminds me of the ten evil toys list you see every Christmas.Take a few minutes to look it over. If you like it Digg it, if not don’t! Feel free to leave comments as well.UPDATE: This made the Digg homepageThe Peekaboo Dance Pole at number…
Why can’t we all just link to the source?
I was recently reading an article on Wired about blogs and linking called Parasitology of Blogging.The premise of the article was that the “A list” bloggers just aggregate what all the “Z list” bloggers are doing. This makes sense to me as a blog such as BoingBoing is nothing more than a big linkback site….
Focusing on the social in social news and book marking
A recent post on the Blog Herald caught my eye. It deals with the idea of transparency in social news sites (i.e. Digg, reddit, Netscape, etc…).I have a few views on the subject and I would like to share them with you.1) The Wisdom of Crowds – This is the idea that Kevin Rose claimed…
Digg makes Digging easier for blogs
On the Digg blog today Brian Link announced that Digg was adding some new “smart” Digg buttons for people to use on their websites.In the past I have tried to use the “Digg this” code on my blog and it has never worked out for me. If Digg is releasing new options for putting the…
How to fix Digg’s gaming problem
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 to use…
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 comes…
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 60,000+…
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) and…
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 articles…