That has to be the wisest social media child of all time. The insight. The clarity of thought. For someone so young, to be filled with the inside knowledge of the bannings, autobury, and so many other important issues at digg is absolutely amazing.
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Here is the most incisive account on digg’s recent issues on the planet. Thank you, Lance, for your testimony; you are both a scholar and a gentlemen.
There are so many social media sites popping up left and right between Pligg and other ways of building them that it is starting to get hard to keep track of them all. At Social News Watch, we are compiling a list that can be used to make some sense of it all.
Whether you know of some new ones that aren’t listed at all or you know of some lists themselves that can be checked and added to the compilation, let us know. Either post it here or at SNW and we’ll try to put together one complete list.
My timing was bad, the first article I was going to get popular and to the front page ended up getting me banned. I linked my article to DIGGBOSS API (checkfriends - http://checkfriends.appspot.com/script) that allows you ONLY share an article to users who have not dugg the article. From what I understand this uses the Digg API and shouldn’t be labeled a “script” but I was banned anyway, along with a lot of users who followed my post (Please Stop Reshouting Me - http://www.thejimgaudet.com/blog/archives/207).
OK, so this doesn’t necessarily fall under the category of “why didn’t THIS make the front page of Digg?” There’s not a ton of content, it’s linked from somewhere else, and there is no real use to it at all from a practical perspective.
The thing is, it’s freakin AK-47 Ice Cubes. Call it blogger’s prerogative. Call it a temporary lapse in judgment. Call it stupid. Whatever you call it, I definitely want my own AK-47 freakin’ ice cubes.
This is an open call for writers. We need you. The original concept of highlighting stories that should have been on the front page of social media sites but that didn’t quite make it is starting to lose steam. We will continue to do it, of course, but we want more.
Lots more.
We want this site to spark the interests of the readers out there who want more from a blog. There is a distinct need to expand on our successes and bring this blog to the next level.
It has done well so far. It achieved a PageRank of 4 in a relatively short time without unnatural link-building. The traffic has been wonderful and we have seen 3 of our posts hit the front page of Digg, including one story that had over 3000 Diggs. Our subscribers are moving up nicely and consistently, but still… Read more…
It seems that, other than an interview and story on Read Write Web about Zaibatsu getting banned, that Digg will not allow any of the stories from the banned to make it to their front page. This story from Nowsourcing tells a pretty comprehensive picture of a major fallacy in their recent ban-spree. It received nearly 300 diggs and 53 comments, but had no chance of hitting the front page even before it was submitted. Read more…
A recent reply by Reg “Zaibatsu” Saddler on Social News Central sparked a lot of interest in the social media world. There were invitations for interviews, mentions of revolts, consoling words, outrage, and the occasional basher all throughout the comments.
Digg introduced 2 new sections to their blog today: Community and Technology. These sections will hopefully add more content with better insight into how Digg works and the people who power it (behind the scenes - not the users).
Here is a video that they posted on their first installment of the Community blog.
In case you’re thinking of trying out Chrome, keep something in mind. It knows where you’ve been, where you visit often, and where you’re likely to visit again. Be careful. You never know what’s going to pop up on your default page.
In an attempt to destroy a hornet’s nest, a Japanese monk was attacked and dropped the torch he was using to rid his temple. Flames consumed the temple and the nest.
The Buddhist monk had put lighted rags on a stick into the nest in the temple, but dropped it and ran when the hornets flew out and attacked him, Niigata prefectural (state) police official Yuichi Ozaka said. The fire occurred Wednesday.
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A Japanese monk trying to rid his temple of a hornet’s nest panicked when the hornets attacked him and dropped a torch, burning his temple to the ground.
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