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There is a whole plethora of social bookmarking spread to all corners of the Internet and if you are like me, then you probably have an account with most of them! However, when you wish to add a bookmark, it becomes quite a pain to go to each and every website. That is where OnlyWire steps in.
It has been observed that previously banned sites don’t appear in the popular lists even now and a good number of new posts that are submitted are landing up in buried lists minutes after they are submitted. Muhammad Saleem tries to seek answers when he asks Has Digg really “unbanned” those banned sites?.
Mike Arrington suggests that Digg Should Sue Wired over the “experiment” conducted by Wired Reporter. I disagree totally, because what she did was prove that Digg can still be gamed, despite Digg’s claims that it can’t. The argument continues…
In a bid to prove that Digg could be gamed, Annalee Newitz of Wired News created a “pointless” blog with absolutely no useful data and pictures and submitted it to digg. She then bought diggs on User/Submitter and managed to get the story on the homepage before it got buried.
I did chronicle my experience about my post Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions! Though there were traces of the existence of the mafia, no one proved it until Pronet Advertising used a script that worked on top of Digg Spy to reveal previously hidden information of who was burying which posts. Everton decided to blog about the same and the post was submitted to Digg.
Last week I posted an article Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions!. For one, I definitely didn’t expect it to hit the homepage of digg. But, there is an interesting story to tell.
Update: I’ve posted an update on the events that surrounded this article. If you’re a blogger and you haven’t heard of Digg.com before this post, then where have you been?
If you’ve had the boring “add to del.icio.us” buttons so far, then it is time to get a change.
