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ipetitions.com - 12/30/2008
Make Digg a Community Website again! Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]
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The petition Power users are controlling digg... Many people have great submissions and they never become popular. Here's a quote from one of Digg's very own users "Just as an exemplary anecdote, I've been a user on here for nearly three years now. I read digg on a casual basis further back ...

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valleywag.gawker.com - 12/27/2008
Valleywag - Gawker
— valleywag.gawker.com — kevin rose Digg Founder Wants to Date Jennifer Aniston Kevin Rose , the boyish founder of Digg, a testosterone-soaked news-discussion site, has resolved to "date someone seriously" in 2009. Specifically, he plans to woo Marley & Me star Jennifer ... (more) Valleywag - Gawker

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blog.digg.com - 12/31/2008
Dupes & ongoing updates to Digg’s promotional algorithm
— blog.digg.com — Hi everyone, We wanted to address some complaints about weaknesses in our duplicate detection mechanism and provide some insights on upcoming changes to the Digg promotional algorithm. I head up Research and Development at Digg and my team is ... (more) Dupes & ongoing updates to Digg’s promotional algorithm

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Did Digg Really Improve Their Ad Targeting?
centernetworks.com - 1/4/2009
Did Digg Really Improve Their Ad Targeting?
— centernetworks.com — Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider has an investigative post today where he analyzed the advertising that is running on Digg. At the end of his investigation, he noted that Digg is clearly running targeted ads now because he viewed ads that ... (more) Did Digg Really Improve Their Ad Targeting?

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Digg.com Suffers Under Regime Change
WebProNews Feed — ... have proposed an algorithmic penalty system such as the one in use at Flickr that seems to devalue group submissions and add value to unconnected simultaneity. Still others, over 1,100 of them, have signed an iPetition about the situation. For all that is good and likeable about Digg.com this idea of democratized, collective-wisdom controlled news discovery process it has never lived up to the ideals behind its inception. From the outset one mob or another has ruled the roost. (Ah, there s your fundamental human truth, right?) The current mob will likely be replaced with ...

The Digg Civil War
Gadgetell — ... dugg the story.  I, myself, have had several front page stories years ago. I am sure that Digg will change one way or another.  They have always been very responsive and do what they can to remain an excellent source of information.  After they fix this psuedo-oligarchical problem, something else is bound to come up.  Read [Digg] Read [Kevin Rose’s response] Read [“No Digg Day” graphic] Read [Digg petition] Full Story » | Written by Iyaz Akhtar for ...

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