I don’t know why I love American Idol so much.  

That’s not true.  I know exactly why I love American Idol so much.  I love the talentless hacks getting blown up by the judges.  I love actively rooting for the hottest female contestant to win (much to the chagrin of my girlfriend who thinks they are all talentless skanks) so I can download the inevitable sex tape off the Internet when their 15 minutes burns out.  I love the business model that manipulates America by giving them a vested interest and a “connection” to the next warm body that will be raiding their wallets with a platinum debut and 450 stop concert tour six months after the show ends.  And I love when the pissed off losers go Tourrette’s on Ryan Seacrest after they get lit up by the judges.

Then it occured to me.  Those are pretty much all the reasons I love Digg (except for the hot chicks).  Digg nearly guarantees front page content an opportunity to go viral when the mass market parachutes onto its niche.  If roughly 50 voters Digg your content to the front page and then 1000 of their peers dogpile it with more Diggs…that audience of about 10,000 Diggers just confirmed your submission as Idol Material to the rest of the web (and search engines).

Also, like American Idol, Digg does not suffer any fools.  It’s REALLY hard to run up a piece of crap submission now.  Just about everything that gets promoted to the front page has the merit to be there.  The value of getting there and the requirement of quality is such that it’s really raised the game of everyone.  Think of it as the anti-Adsense.

We’ve got a hot one America!  And it’s Digg.  Learn how to play the same game Simon Cowell is playing on your TV with the content you generate on your sites and you may just turn one of them into the next Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood.

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