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  • Digg.com Suffers Under Regime Change

    01/03/2009 11:44:04 AM PST · by BreeLee · 3 replies · 365+ views
    www.webpronews.com ^ | Dec 30, 2009 | Jason Lee Miller
    Powerdiggers Stealing Stories, Promoting Them It seems all good things are corrupted or abused eventually. For Digg.com, habitually, a better choice... SEOs, thanks to aggressive blackballing by the Digg “bury-brigade,” were perhaps the earliest and most blatantly ostracized group muscled out of the prevailing purist community there—no salesmen allowed. Marketers and PR flaks effectively excommunicated, internal drama is free is to ensue as “powerdiggers” are accused of setting up a Digg.com good ole boy network. Exhibit A is a submission ironically making the front page with screen-grab side-by-side comparisons of, as the title suggests, how the average Digg user is....
  • How many FReepers are on Digg?

    08/30/2007 2:03:48 PM PDT · by RatherBiased.com · 13 replies · 417+ views
    Self
    How many FReepers out there are on Digg.com? I am interested in helping the right get a better presence there to help promote conservatism and libertarianism. You game?
  • User rebellion at Digg.com unearths a can of worms (HD DVD's cracked)

    05/03/2007 11:39:20 AM PDT · by Smogger · 16 replies · 1,403+ views
    The Los Angeles Times ^ | 5/2/2007 | Alex Pham and Joseph Menn
    Building a business on mob rule is dangerous. Digg.com, a website that lets anyone post and rank news stories and blogs, found that out when its members staged a revolt over what they saw as an effort to censor them. It began this week when Digg started banning members from posting a software code that helps online pirates make bootlegged copies of movies. Digg took action because the entertainment industry had threatened to sue. The ban set the masses off. Scores of Digg's 1.2 million registered users deluged the site, breaking traffic records and making sure that every one of...
  • Dig.com Reveals News Stories Fade After 1 Hour

    04/24/2007 3:23:47 PM PDT · by blam · 14 replies · 490+ views
    New Scientist ^ | 4-24-2007 | Belle Dumé
    Digg.com reveals news stories fade after 1 hour 16:18 24 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service Belle Dumé Online news articles can lose their appeal in as little as an hour. That is the message from two statistical physicists who analysed the way people access information on the user-driven news site Digg.com. Fang Wu and Bernardo Huberman of HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, US, studied Digg in an effort to understand the way online news readers consume stories. Through a statistical analysis of the site, the researchers discovered that just a handful of stories hog most people's attention and most...