Digg Autobury, Is TechCrunch on The List Now?
I doubt it especially since the last front page article that Techcrunch had was submitted by none other than Kevin Rose himself 11 days ago. By the way I’m not sure if anyone notices this, but Kevin has a 100% made popular rating out of the 329 Digg stories he’s submitted.
But I think Digg needs to err on the side of transparency here. When a moderator gives a story an assist, or holds it back, users deserve to know what’s happened, and why. Otherwise, conspiracy theories about “super users” will continue to circulate.
Quoting ValleyWag here about Digg superusers. Granted the top diggers do have a fairly high percentage of getting to the front page on Digg, but to have someone hit the front page with 100% seems a little suspicious even though he is the one in charge if Digg. I’m sure only needing 24, 56, or 88 Diggs for front page is normal for other users too. Superusers do exist at Digg, and if we look hard enough we may find others.
So why the topic title? A post from TechCrunch the other day caught my eye. With all the recent posts about some big bloggers like copyblogger now on the autobury list, I thought it would be amusing if Kevin’s friend Michael Arrington’s site got on the list too. After reading some things about the Digg algorithm changes, and also reading about the TechCrunch post being buried after only 1 bury I thought it might have been a possibility that the site may have been added to the autobury list.
That is until I saw the Kevin Rose submission for a TechCrunch post. The post probably got buried for spam since it contained the words Ron Paul. Which is also why this post will probably never get on Digg’s front page either. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve have anything from this domain submitted to Digg yet.
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Page Rank Updated For Free Blog Review Sites List
Short post, but just FYI for those of you who haven’t signed up for some free reviews from my list of free blog reviews. I recently updated each site with their new Page ranks as of the January 2008 update. Its funny that the page ranks came out so fast this quarter, but I DID mention that there was funny stuff going with the SERPs back in mid December that many webmasters were talking about.
Any ways if your a blogger that offers free blog reviews, or know of a blog that does free reviews, please e-mail me the site so I can add it to my list.
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Who Wants a Referral – Sign Me Up Sundays
I’m going to start up a weekly segment called ‘Sign me up Sundays’. So listen up all you online money makers. If your trying to get a referral from a program now is your chance to do so. That’s right, you get to sign me up under you. Now why on earth am I doing this? I’ve been going around sifting through people’s posts about what programs are what. Normally its a big spiel about how great a program is etc etc. I want your opinion on what the program is doing for you. Besides I’m going to turn the tables on you, and instead of me trying to sell YOU something. You get to show me how YOU would sell a product to ME. So here’s how it works: Read more
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81 Reasons You Know You Entrecard Too Much When:
I started up a thread in the Entrecard forum with this topic, and it took off quite a bit. The thread can be found here. I know some people don’t frequent the forums there too much so I’m reposting what the people’s responses were in there.
So here we go the you know you Entrecard too much when:
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I Have Writers Block – Addicted to Call of Duty 4
I got hit with a really bad case of writers block last week, and when I finally started getting over it I get sick so the posts I had in my draft box never got finished up. On top of that I didn’t have a notepad handy so while I was lying on my bed with plenty of time to think about a blog post. So by the time I was feeling better I get up, and completely forget about what I was thinking about while I was sick.
I remember reading over at Tim’s blog earlier in the week about how important it is to take notes down. In hindsight, I should have written down the ideas that came into my mind. Oh well hopefully I’ll get those ideas back again sometime, and this time hopefully without the cold that came with it. Lesson learned, and now even though I’ll look a little weird going to bed cradling a yellow notepad to bed. I won’t have to worry about losing ideas again. That is of course if I’m not dreaming about having good blog ideas too.
On another note, while I was out sick I finally managed to be off of my computer for long enough to download Call of Duty 4 for the PC. I’m going to have to add that to my list of games that I am addicted to. However my graphics card isn’t up to snuff for the game so I’ll have to upgrade now even though my card is only about 2 years old (ATI 1900xtx). So it looks like I have my first big spend for the 2008 New Years already.
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