Archive for 'Digg'
The Perils of Being Popular or Please Don’t Digg This
Like your mommy told you you should be careful of what you wish for because you just might get it. For months now, I have submitted posts from various blogs where I pontificate to Digg where they have consistently failed to amuse the wise crowd in any statistically meaningful way. The most Diggs I’ve ever […]
Posted: April 11th, 2007 under Social Media, Blogging, Digg.
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Don’t You Hate It When Nick Carr is Right?
Nicholas Carr is a provocative blogger and professional writer who irritates an awful lot of people in the technology business. Maybe it’s because he is a skeptic in an industry that attracts Kool-Aid drinkers in Jonestownian proportions. Or, it could be the “I was executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and you weren’t” whiff of eastern elitism […]
Posted: October 19th, 2006 under Web 2.0, Social Networking, Enterprise Web 2.0, Blogging, Digg, Collective Intelligence, Social Computing, Wisdom of Crowds.
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Riggy Digg Digg
Like many bloggers, I game the social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit by posting my own stories with provocative headlines. Slow afternoon; slap together something and call it Web 2.0 Is So Totally Over and you’ll pick up an extra 2,000 hits over next 30 minutes or so.
This is an ultimately self-defeating exercise–most of the people who click […]
Posted: August 14th, 2006 under Web 2.0, Social Networking, Social Media, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Bookmarking, Social Search, Digg, Reddit.
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