This is a guest post by Tamish
The recent action of Digg against a number of its “top users” is being questioned at the moment. Recent stories point all the blame on Digg for the action however its a lot more twisted than it seems.
Though a number of Digg users had been fast-digging for a long time, the issue had hit digg just recently. Apparently it seems that there had been a cold war between top users. In order to remove some top users from the stack, some reported them up for different reasons.
After that became a long motion of more anti-digg stories. [Read more...]
Recent changes at both Propeller and Mixx have pushed the inevitable forward. Mixx, the brainchild of Chris McGill, has been poised for success for about a year now. Propeller, the once-proud Netscape, was doomed the moment that AOL stepped into the picture.
When the news wires started buzzing, burning, and smoking about Dennis Kucinich introducing 35 letters of impeachment against President George W. Bush, we started watching the three top social media sites to see who would get the news the quickest to their front page.
Social News WAR pt 2/3. Ncomment does it again.
Lee Garnett from ncomment did it again. We knew that the first comic was absolutely amazing, but this Part 2 took it to another level.
Click the image for the full comic (but check out part I first if you haven’t already).
How awesome is that!
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