August 12th, 2007
Pligg for Sale
Open source Digg-clone Pligg has announced they’re selling the pligg.com domain and site as well as the SourceForge account where the project resides.
August 8th, 2007
Rock Your Firefox With Smart Digg Button
Mozilla recently released a Facebook application that lets you profess your undying devotion for Firefox Add-ons. Don’t forget to show some love to the Smart Digg Button.
August 2nd, 2007
Kevin Rose vs. Jason Calacanis on the GigaOM Show
Kevin Rose and Jason Calacanis square off with each other on the latest episode of the GigaOM Show. They discuss the wisdom of the crowd vs. editorial oversight (read: Digg vs. Netscape) and their new ventures Mahalo and Pownce. If you listen closely, you can just barely make out the blood-lust beneath their well-mannered banter.
August 2nd, 2007
Trio of Top Diggers Drill Down, Talk Tech
Three of Digg’s most prolific users have banded together to bring us a new flavor of content for regular consumption. The Drill Down is a podcast featuring hosts Andrew Sorcini, Muhammad Saleem, and Reg ‘Zaibatsu’.
The show is to be produced weekly, discussing the goings-on in the world of technology and the Internet. The first two […]
May 2nd, 2007
Surprise: Digg Moderates Content (and it’s not a surprise)
What happened on Digg yesterday did not have to happen. It was the wisdom of the crowd spiraling downward into a perfect storm of mob rule. The two main factors that contributed to the strength of said storm are the Digg community’s disdain for DRM and the general unawareness of the fact that Digg has […]
April 30th, 2007
PyDigg - A Python Toolkit for the Digg API
PyDigg is a Python toolkit for the Digg API. It provides an object-oriented interface to all of the available endpoints of the API. It is offered under the MIT License.
Download it here: (tar.gz | zip)
Over the years, I’ve used Python for various purposes. I’ve always found it to be a great language for just about […]
April 27th, 2007
Firefox Extension: Smart Digg Button
The Smart Digg Button extension for Firefox places a button in your status bar. It uses the newly released Digg API to determine if the web page you are currently viewing has been submitted to Digg.
If the page you are viewing has been submitted to Digg, it displays the current number of Diggs the page […]
April 21st, 2007
A Day in the Life of a Digger
by Derek van Vliet
Filed under: Digg
Filed under: Digg
Digg user MrBabyMan created this 2-minute comedic documentary (documomedy?) to commemorate Digg’s recent milestone of passing the 1 million user mark. Digg on!
March 15th, 2007
Attack of the Show Attacks Digg’s Cred
Last night, AOTS called Digg’s credibility into question with this segment on social media. In doing so, they hosted a panel discussion with experts Annalee Newitz of Wired and David Ewalt from Forbes.com. Annalee recently made waves with an exposé on how she bought votes on Digg.
What they fail to disclose in between jabs at […]
February 10th, 2007
The Wizards of Buzz
Egads! They put my picture in The Wall Street Journal today along with about 20 other avid participants in the social news world. The article discusses the influence of social news and some of the ways that influence is brokered.
They interviewed me a couple of times over the last few months for this article. It […]
