Category Archives: Digg
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Digg’s broken feeds: 3 days later
Status of Digg’s broken search RSS feeds: still broken.