Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Digg

  • Solidarity for supernova17

    I just noticed that 4 of the top 31 users at Digg (MrBabyMan, koregaonpark, TheAttacks, and charbarred) have all replaced their avatars with that of supernova17, who was banned from Digg for submitting (yes, just submitting) a story about how there might be a so-called Bury Brigade. I’m not sure what the Digg moderators were…

  • Digg’s 100% Club

    Everybody knows that Kevin Rose has a perfect 1:1 ratio of Digg submissions to frontpage stories, but what other Diggers belong to this exclusive 100% club? The following Digg users submit popular stories with pinpoint accuracy, and like the best military snipers, they never miss. User # of submissions kevinrose 216 cmptrge3k 5 Diggnation 4…

  • Since Digg apparently invented the idea of voting for things…

    Iraq copies Digg, implements voting. Although in Iraq, unlike on Digg, each person’s vote is equal.

  • Top 100 Update

    I just wanted to post that, despite some, ahem, setbacks, the Digg Top Users list is still being updated daily and is as accurate as ever.

  • Ahead of the curve

    Business Week reports: “Later this year, Digg will launch a recommendation tool able to expose members to fellow Diggers who appear to have similar interests, says Rose. ‘Digg will be smart enough to know what interests you,’ says Rose. The site will identify those with like interests in part by the previous stories they have…

  • 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…

  • Digg removes rank information from profiles (or, Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride)

    This morning, Digg removed ranking information from user profiles. I commented on the story, pointing to my top users list for people who were still interested in their rank. Digg CEO Jay Adelson responded to my comment thusly: “We no longer display that rank information, so don’t be surprised if Chris’s list is no longer…

  • On resurrecting Digg’s Top Users page

    My restoration of Digg’s Top Users page yesterday got a lot of press around the Web: Both the list and my blog post about the list were submitted to Digg, but both were buried off of the front page. (Buried, or manually removed?) Michael Arrington mentioned the list at TechCrunch, and the readers commenting on…

  • Top Diggers list is back

    Digg removed its top users list this morning. However, as I mentioned yesterday, It’s an exercise in futility. A competent programmer could easily throw together a page scraper to determine the top submitters, so when the dust settles, Digg will still have problems with pay-for-play, but the most prolific users will no longer be recognized…

  • Top Diggers no longer recognized

    Kevin Rose writes on the Digg blog: Some of our top users are being blamed by some outlets as leading efforts to manipulate Digg. These users have been listed on the “Top Diggers” area of the site that was created in the early days of Digg when there was a strong focus on encouraging people…

  • Social Traffic Statistics

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ Until URL Fixer got Dugg last week, I hadn’t had a good real-life example for my Social Traffic Monitor WordPress plugin. What follows is an analysis of the traffic my blog received from social news and bookmarking sites late last week, as recorded by…

  • Social Traffic Monitor 1.2

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ After giving it a workout this week with all the visitors to my blog from Digg and StumbleUpon, I’ve made some changes to the Social Traffic Monitor plugin for WordPress, and I’m releasing version 1.2. Since version 1.1, I’ve added StumbleUpon as a social…

  • Sign of success

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ Just got this automated e-mail: The domain chrisfinke.com has reached 90% of its bandwidth limit for January. Please contact the system admin as soon as possible. Thanks a lot, Digg! I better lay low for a while… :-)

  • The A to Z of me

    I’ve been thinking recently that it’d be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we? archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD. blog.netscape.com: the official…

  • Social Traffic Monitor: A WordPress Plugin

    I’ve just put the finishing touches on version 1.0 of my first WordPress plugin, the Social Traffic Monitor. In a nutshell, it checks incoming traffic for visitors from social news sites (e.g., Netscape, Digg, Reddit) and when a post on your blog starts getting traffic from these sites, it begins to log each visit to…

  • Where are Digg’s new features?

    On November 9, Wired Blogs ran an article “quoting” Digg founder Kevin Rose as saying that 20 new features would be added to Digg over the next month. (I say “quoting” because the phrase was not actually in quotes, but it can be deduced that Kevin said or implied it at some point during the…

  • An early Christmas present for Digg

    Merry Christmas, Kevin Rose!

  • Digg’s Transparency Opacity

    Muhammad is far better at this than I am, so instead of me trying to be all eloquent about the lack of transparency at Digg, go read Muhammad’s post about Stacy Doss’s account being deleted from Digg. I will add one thing: check out the comments on the post at Digg. You’ll find a surprising…

  • Something I can’t stand about Digg

    Here’s something I can’t stand about Digg: Say you’re not logged in and browsing the front page, opening stories and discussions in tabs (or new windows, if you’re stuck in the past) as you go, and you see a story you want to either digg or bury. So you go to the login box on…

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