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Digg’s Diversity

Staring at the Digg frontpage right now.  2 pretty mundane stories from Arstechnica and two stories from HuffingtonPost about Hillary’s campaign death spiral.
Real diverse, guys.  Digg domain trust FTW!

…Uhh, start with a big one?
So, it’s been a week or so and I’ve genuinely tried to immerse myself into the Twitter ecosystem (note to self: stop talking like Zuckerberg) and I guess I’ll have to moderate my position from, “What a totally useless timesuck” to something like “Ok, this is kind of fun, but […]

Twitterbaited

After getting housed by the biggest hater on the planet in the dork-off (I mean, “blogging bet”) and then reclaiming my pride by winning a Reddit Xbox Challenge, I am now letting my pride, gambling addiction, and inability to turn away from any competition get the best of me yet again…a Twitter challenge.
We haven’t figured […]

The changes in the Digg algorithm over the last week have resulted in a lot of chatter among marketers, bloggers, and media.  Giving credit where credit is certainly due, I do think that Digg’s update definitely made it harder to push through non-organic popularity (read: spam).  In spite of these changes, my contention is […]

You had to see this one coming.  One of the most opinionated and misogynistic sites on the Internet rolls out its new Pictures section and, BAAAAM, this is currently the top story on Digg today:
Planned Parenthood & Anal Sex (Original Digg thread entitled “Sex Hurts? Consider the Alternative”)
I love when I go to these Ivory Tower conferences […]

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