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…
Tag: Social Media
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 prior…
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 others.To…
An idea for Digg’s dupe problem
While I was on Digg today I found something submitted by one of my “friends” was a dupe of something I had submitted over a month ago.When I submit things that are direct dupes Digg normally takes me right to the entry and does not let me resubmit the same thing. In this particular case…
A Solution To Digg’s Blog Spam Problem?
‘A lot of blogs, good and bad, often get buried as spam just because they are a blog. I have a potential solution that may help.We already know that, according to Digg’s TOS, you are able to submit blog entries and you can submit your own blog entries. This is often frowned upon by other…
I’m In The Digg Top 500!
I was just checking my profile on Digg and I was surprised to see that I have jumped into the Top 500 users on Digg!It’s been a long haul getting this far but what really surprised me is the fact that you only need to get 12 stories pegged to the home page to be…
Is Digg Getting Serious About Dupes?
Every couple of days I like to submit a large number of stories to Digg. In the past Digg has been rather lazy about Dupe checking, I think this has now begun to change!While attempting to submit a large number of stories to Digg I kept running into items that had been posted on Digg…
The Six Stages of Blogging With AdSense
Many bloggers use AdSense as their primary source of revenue on their blog. There are six “stages” that all bloggers go through when using AdSense.Stage 1: Sign UpThe first stage, is quite naturally, signing up.This stage involves a lot of waiting for your site to be approved by the AdSense team. It could take a…
Netscape Model” Moving Into the Print Media?
I found a very interesting classified advertisement in my daily paper today. They are looking for a “User-Generated Content Specialist.”Here is the advertisement:Do you want to play a key, multimedia role in our newsroom, contributing in a strategic way to our news Web site, weekly newspapers and daily print operation? Are you an MVP candidate?The…
Did You Read the Article First? Some Thoughts on Social Bookmarking
That’s a common question on the social bookmarking/news voting websites Digg and Netscape. It’s also a very interesting question as these site specifically used the term “social bookmarking” in their early press releases.In defense of both of those sites, neither one still uses the term “social bookmarking” on their sites now. Both are trying to…
Digg’s “bury” system
One of the big gripes on Digg is the bury system used by the community to moderate submissions. A lot of people complain about it and I’m going to take a few minutes to talk about it.Digg uses a system know as the “bury” system to allow users to moderate stories. Unlike Digging, the bury…
How $2.8M Cost Kevin Rose His $60M
Near the end of TWiT 77 Leo made a few candid comments about the failed Digg acquisition by News Corp. I know Jay Adelson has said that Digg is not for sale on forbes.com but…Leo: The thing about digg, which is really sad, is that uh, you know Murdoch offered well over a hundred million…