Wow. Desperation at work, but at least it's clever.

One of the most amazing displays of "Is it clever or is it just plain dumb?" I guess that will depend on if it works or not, but either way, I have to say that I like the attempt. The fact that it will probably get over 10k diggs is just absolutely mind-blowing.


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Where is the "Algorithm Justice" on Digg

This one blows me away. Here is a good story from a great source, arstechnica.com. It has been on Upcoming Hot in All for several hours now. It has as of the time of this blog post 218 Diggs and 20 comments. It wasn't shouted or anything like that. Yet, it has been passed over by the following titles with the following number of Diggs:

1) Possibly the Greatest Invention of this Millennium - 25 Diggs, link died after 2 minutes on front page

2) Living Upside-down Shapes Spiders For Energy Saving - 65 Diggs, a good story by a great submitter, but definitely not a better story

3) Fighting with spouse can be good for your health - 25 Diggs, unreliable content

4) Hillary's - 106 Diggs, good source, but what's up with the headline?

5) Bad Fashion - 40 Diggs, picture that isn't exactly Digg front page material. I hate whining, but this is ridiculous. I have 4 stories on the Upcoming sorted by Most, and it looks like this is the only one of them that will hit. Oh well. It's just Digg.

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Banners. We hate them. Please stop them.

I am embarassed to admit that I use IE. It isn't that I prefer it over Firefox or other browsers, but in my line of work, it pays to see exactly what the client sees, so IE it is until they change their ways.

That's not the point of this article. The point is that those of us who hate banner advertising, especially those of us who do not have adbockers, are forced into dealing with them website to website, day to day, minute to minute. I can't stand them.

This article talks a little about some of the ways that this practice can be made obsolete through proper, honest advertising instead of by offering to give away a tremendous prize in exchange for some survey answers.

The complete story about blocking banner advertising is interesting, or you can read more stuff that 0boy likes.

Adelson on Autobury: "Why would we want to do that?" -- (i.e. sidestep the question)

Some quick facts:

1) All submissions from certain sites get removed from the Upcoming section of Digg sometime around 20 diggs, regardless of how many buries were recorded or who submits it.

2) One story from the social media blog in question was submitted by MrBabyMan. It was removed from upcoming at 20 diggs in 42 minutes.

3) This particular post was removed at 20 diggs after 26 minutes.

4) Despite smokescreens, autobury is a reality, and the proof is coming.

Digg Autobury has the complete story, but you found it at 0boy and his choices for this blog.