May 11th, 2007

Own a piece of history

For the low, low price of $189,900, you could own this piece of Web software history: This is the very building where I worked on such projects as Slashdotter, Netscape Navigator 9, OPML Support for Firefox, ScribeFire, the Digg Top Users list, and most recently, Twits Like Me. If you act now, I’ll even throw [...]

May 9th, 2007

Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/05/09

This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/05/09 On a side note, congratulations go out this week to Kevin Rose, who at #35 on the list has [...]

May 2nd, 2007

Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/05/02

This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/05/02 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the Digg Statisical [...]

May 2nd, 2007

On Digg and “Revolution”

Jeff Harrell sums up my thoughts on the matter better than I could have. “What happened last night wasn’t a revolution, [...] what happened last night is that a bunch of kids on the playground banded together to beat up another kid, a kid they saw as richer or more powerful or more snotty than [...]

April 27th, 2007

Digg feeds still broken

It’s been a week since I first brought up the problem with certain Digg Search RSS feeds being broken. I reported the bug through Digg’s “Report a Website bug” form, and I mentioned it here as well. Has a week been enough time to fix what is most likely a simple programming error? No. Initially, [...]

April 27th, 2007

Top 1,000 Diggers list now Web-friendly

Due to popular demand, I’ve made an HTML version of the Top 1,000 Digg users list. This formatted list will be updated weekly along with the CSV data files containing the same information. I’m considering just making it dynamic and allowing people to grab the “Top X Diggers” list by specifying a “?users=x” parameter (where [...]

April 25th, 2007

Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/04/25

This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/04/25 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the Digg Statisical [...]

April 23rd, 2007

Digg’s broken feeds: 3 days later

Status of Digg’s broken search RSS feeds: still broken.