Maybe this post should read, “Digg for sale”. A few thoughts on what is happening on digg. First, I’m not following the current convo regarding the latest changes at digg closely as there will be a period of flux where nothing of worth really settles. Don’t get me wrong it’s a great, geeky, soap opera [...]

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Diggs for sale It seems you can now pay for a front page digg. Great, where do I pay. Oh wait, it’s looks like you have to be a multinational corporation with a big fat wallet. I wonder how much Paramount has paid digg for the front page? So much for people power.

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I submitted a story to digg about global banking which went hot, which I didn’t expect as there were no pictures of Megan Fox or explosions. But it got a front page no problem, which raises the question, do certain sites on digg get an artificial bump to the front page? But lets leave aside [...]

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“Unfortunately the algorithm does not only look at submitters. Before a submission is promoted it must reach a certain number of votes within a 24 hour period. If every time User A submits a story, Users B-Z are the first to vote, the alarms are going to sound. It’s likely that when this happens, User [...]

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When you have every social media marketing blog loaded in your RSS reader, you soon come to identify a problem within the space. The problem is the term Linkbait, it is overused, misused and stretched to cover almost all content ever published on the web. Different definitions of linkbait I have heard: A top ten [...]

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Or go to a site which actually works. From the Digg blog, “Hey everyone, We know that we are currently having some issues on Digg at the moment. Submissions, commenting, digging and other actions may sometimes fail. We have a crack team assigned to it and will be making numerous fixes as soon as possible [...]

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