Yeah, Diggers and other social media users get upset when blogs and small websites do these things. So, how about when the big media sites do them?
The NY Times, especially, used to get on my nerves with their Twitter account. Every morning at 4AM, they dumped 10-20 links into the twitterverse. They’ve since stopped. Although, I’m still disappointed when I see mainstream media sites use Twitter as an RSS feed.
I really don’t think they get the Internet.
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Forbes, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Mens Health, you name it. The big guys think that they because they entered in the game early, or because they have some popular print publication backing them up, they can get away with whatever they want.
There are some who live in legends behind the scenes. They are the people who effect the lives of many who probably have no idea who they are. They are in the shadows. In the corners. Behind the walls. We use their services, and we never know their name.
Welcome to the world of aXXo, the undisputed champion of pirating movies on BitTorrent.
This article on Slate takes an in-depth look into what aXXo does and technically how he does it. At the time of this post, it still has a slight chance of hitting. We’ll.
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Slate profiles the trademarks of BitTorrent’s most popular movie uploader. Countdown until the MPAA lawsuit? 10, 9, 8…
The Department of Justice remained true to their assertion that a Yahoo/Google deal would prompt anti-trust lawsuits to block the deal. They were so passionate about it that they made a weekly call to the parties every Wednesday telling them that it wasn’t worth going forward.
It didn’t go forward. Now Yahoo is still in big trouble and Google must find someone else to gobble up.
In the whole scheme of things, this isn’t a shocker. What is really interesting, however, is how the government let it go on with their stance staying the same and yet not clearly stating NO. Probably wasted a ton of a lot of people’s time.
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.
Originally submitted to Digg by Toughtech 10-12-2008
Found this one late. It’s really the video that deserves the credit for the front page, but the story about rugged laptops has its merits as well. Check out the video - the story itself isn’t wonderful, but it’s not too bad.
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Fast, Tough and damn cheap. Why you should 86 your plastic laptop…
This is not my personal blog; nor, is it JD’s. It’s starting to feel like it, though. We need contributors, and in order to satisfy that end, perhaps we need to expand the mission of this blog a little further. You may not have thought it was possible, but I assure you; it is.
Our first and primary mission was to highlight those stories on Digg that, for one reason or another, did not make the front page. It was a result of being frustrated at and confused by an obscure algorithm that no one could even begin to understand. How does one story get picked over another? Is the decision to promote one piece over another truly being crowdsourced?
Through our posts we highlighted apparent flaws in Digg’s algorithm, its system design, and its community. Not satisfied with that and feeling rebellious, JD decided to highlight the utter crap that managed to be promoted to Digg’s homepage. Thus, even from its earliest days, this blog’s mission has always been two fold:
1) To highlight those stories that may have deserved to have gone popular.
2) To highlight the garbage that manages to become popular, but should really have not.
Mostly, we added human intellect and judgment to the selection of stories to go popular that Digg’s algorithm could not. Read more…
Ok, so maybe not front page material, but I just wanted to highlight two submissions with a message to Digg staff about the bannings - in a rather comical way.
cgt… uhm… NoNipples submitted two photos in response to all the new bannings. They basically poke fun at his own banning while symbolically protesting the newest string of bannings from Digg.
I’m not going to put an image on this post… cause the only relevant one I can think of is with boobies
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No nipples here
So I shouldn’t get banned for it this time, right??????
I wonder if Kevin looked at these going “Hmm… this account looks familiar and so does this wedding photo”
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…
This one actually still has a chance to hit the front page, but it doesn’t look good. Just in case, we’ll go ahead and post it here. This is unique news that covers a very odd portion of the internet - those sites that try to encourage people to commit suicide.
In case you didn’t catch that, let me repeat:
Website that encourage people to commit suicide.
As odd as it may sound, they exist, and the government is making it very clear that it is illegal. Read more…
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submitted two photos in response to all the new bannings. They basically poke fun at his own banning while symbolically protesting the newest string of bannings from Digg.
