Digg.com is a social news/bookmarking website. When it started out it was good and focused on Technology. Last year they opened up a series of new categories and took on a ton of new users. It has since become a haven of fanboys and Stalinism. This is my top 11 list of things I have…
Tag: Social Media
Digg hits 1 meeeelion members
The social bookmarking… umm… social news… no, wait a minute… The anti-social bookmarking news site Digg has just reached 1 million members. Congratulations Kevin Rose. Oh, guess what, that’s 1 million registered users! As opposed to unregistered users, or banned users, or deleted users… Or is it? We may never know. It may be something…
Digg’s new ‘auto bury’ feature
It has recently come to my attention that the recent news of sites being unbanned from Digg may have been a red herring thrown at us to divert our attention from the full impact of a new Digg feature. I am talking about Digg’s new “auto bury” feature. New Auto-Bury FeatureYes indeed, it’s a new…
The effect of being buried on Digg
Last night a story on hmtk.com made the front page of Digg. This story was written by my friend Force Drainer and it is called 501st Legion Inducts Kevin Smith as “friend”. The story made it to the front page of Digg just a few minutes before midnight on Monday March 5th. Upon reaching the…
Ignore the man behind the curtain
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…
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…
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 homepage The Peekaboo Dance…
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…
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…
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…