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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Show it to the Navy.

Somebody e-mailed me this satirical article about Digg’s userbase revolting, which “quotes” me talking about Kevin Rose defacing my blog. I’m undecided as to whether it’s actually funny, but I did like this bit: “What, is our Alexa ranking gonna drop from 73 to 74?” said Digg CEO Jay Adelson. “You know, for every 30-something [...]

Somebody e-mailed me this satirical article about Digg’s userbase revolting, which “quotes” me talking about Kevin Rose defacing my blog. I’m undecided as to whether it’s actually funny, but I did like this bit:

“What, is our Alexa ranking gonna drop from 73 to 74?” said Digg CEO Jay Adelson. “You know, for every 30-something who decides he’s got something better to do than digg a couple hundred stories a day, there’s a 15-year-old kid willing to skip his homework and take care of that for us. We’re not worried.”

Had I read that quote in any other context, I probably would have reluctantly believed that Jay said it.



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