Entries Tagged as ‘digg’

04/09/2009

digg: the number’s don’t add up

I won’t say who’s Digg profile this screen grab is from, but just check out the numbers. Over 100% popularity ratio? Dugg 0 items? 41 comments? Submitted 9, made 12 popular? The numbers just don’t add up. This isn’t the only profile like this either. Whats going on, Digg?

02/27/2009

it feels good to be popular

Finally!

01/30/2009

meet my high-maintenance girlfriend: digg.

Digg is a high-maintenance girlfriend. She’s demanding, time-consuming, finicky, hard to please and will dump you at the first slip-up. She can be great when things are going good, and give you some great results, but you have better be willing to invest the time and energy its going to take to get those results. [...]

01/29/2009

politics & social media: an exploitation of trust?

Its nearly indisputable fact that the 2009 US Presidential election was the first election won using social media. President Obama’s campaign utilized Facebook as no candidate had previously. I can almost say with certainty that campaign coordinators were also using services with user submitted content like Digg, Reddit and Mixx. Its only logical, and if [...]

01/16/2009

spoutblog, sundance, and reddit

Posted my first submission to Reddit today in a long time and to my surprise, we hit the front page. I started it off with a few upvotes, but Sundance momentum and interest carried it the rest of the way. This also supports my theory that news & events–peices with some substance–do better on Reddit [...]