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Comment on 2006: The Year That Digg Was a Technology Site by Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:04:00 +0000

I friend sent me the following E-mail an hour ago:

time for a Digg fork?

For some time now, a group of friends have been discussing the fact that Digg seems to be controlled by a professional astroturfers. Stories about Apple and Microsoft make the fp a lot, and FOSS less so.

Maybe we should respond by creating a separate service with a completely different URL that just mirrors the FOSS stories there, and stop going to digg itself. We could then have a place to go to read FOSS-related stories, without having to plough through all of the news about proprietary code that is not interesting to us. It would also be a good business model. And, coincidentally, the digg software is FOSS, AFAIK, and so is forkable. I think that FS daily uses it.

I guess FSDaily is already out there, but it’s a case of preaching to the converted or the choir and the audience is rather small (I know because I see the effects of front page stories there quite occasionally).

Comment on 2006: The Year That Digg Was a Technology Site by Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:09:35 +0000

The recent digg algorithm changes were an attempt at reversing this dumpster effect, where before you might be able to get 50 diggs in 24 hours and almost be guaranteed a front page, now I’ve seen hundreds of diggs on upcoming articles waiting for the “thought police” unseen and unsung moderators…

Honestly I’m surprised you aren’t one of em.

Comment on 2006: The Year That Digg Was a Technology Site by richard

richard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:15:35 +0000

I agree, Digg is at best a link farm. They offer nothing new for the surfer. It is full of webmaster’s Digging their own articles to get traffic. With the proliferation of these scripts now on the market, sites like netscape have got it right in just using this type of service as an adjunct to their existing website. When the novelty disappears, so will the service. Hopefully, in the meantime, link farms like Digg and Stumble will disappear quickly unless they re-invent themselves.

Comment on Mr. Fitness: Second Place by Scott Tobkes

Scott Tobkes — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:35:54 +0000

WOW! congratulations on the award…once again, that took a lot of hard work and discipline to achieve.

Comment on Some New Para-sites by Grez

Grez — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:32:22 +0000

It looks like those domains are not used and if I remember correctly the .cc domains were free some time ago. Not sure if they are still free.

Regards
Grez

Comment on My Interview with Richard Stallman by Justin

Justin — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:22:14 +0000

Hi roy,

That was one cool interview. The questions asked by you where really cool and I got answers to many of the questions that I wanted to ask Richard Stallman myself.

I have also bookmarked the page for future reference, as it contains many useful stuff.

I was also happy to see that Stallman acknowledged the work of FSF India in bringing free software to kerala. I will be glad to tell this to my friends at FSF India, when i meet them.

It was a great interview indeed.

with regards
Justin

Comment on A Conspiracy Theory: The Real US Government by Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:56:39 +0000

Well, it’s just unfortunate that our PM seems to be part of these secret societies.