Posts Tagged ‘Digg
How To REALLY Survive Digg on a Shared Host
After reading a ridiculous post on “surviving the Digg effect on a shared host,” (and then laughing ridiculously at it), I decided to write a real tutorial on real-live ways not only to survive the Digg effect, but also a simple but powerful way to improve your site’s performance. Read more within.
When Is A Spoiler No Longer a Spoiler?
There is currently a headline on Digg today entitled “LOST’s Producer Breaks “Radio Silence” to Reveal Why Charlie Died and More.” If you read the comment (which on Digg, are all too frequently inane rants rolled with inside jokes), you’l see the poor submitter getting roasted for his title, which includes a “spoiler.” [...]
User Generated Content Usually Sucks
This goes to show how worthless digg.com comments can be. Nearly every comment is dugg down. C’mon, are these the kinds of comments that people feel they should take the time to type and submit. Do they think other people will get joy from reading them?
Read this comments on this inane, [...]
Best Digg Comment Ever?
Could this be the best digg.com comment ever?
I think it is. It’s clear, concise, and well worded. It’s not moronic, it doesn’t rely on AOL-speak or l33t. It doesn’t play off the same techie cliches. It’s just good, old fashioned quality content. It makes a point and it makes a [...]
Suggestions for Improving digg.com
How do you digg? Do you digg up articles that fascinate you? Articles that your friends recommend? Articles you want to check back on later? Do you use it as a social news system, as intended, or as a bookmarking system? The problem, as I see it, is that as cool as digg is, there’s [...]
firsttube.com Now Has An API
Well, something I’ve LONG considered implementing is an API for my website. Yes, there’s VERY little to ever use an API for me, however, it’s always been one of those “out there” challenges. It’s always been breaking new ground to parse an XML request and return XML to it. I’ve tried probably [...]
Bye-Bye Slashdot, Hello IG
Today is a fairly big day, well, at least for my internet habits. When I launch a browser and open up my tabs, they look like this:
Gmail|Slashdot|OSNews|My Yahoo!|Work|Bloglines|Digg
I’ve added to the tabs in the last year or two: I added the work tab (email when at home, our helpdesk at work), then added Bloglines [...]
