10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page (Hilarious!)

seoblackhat.com — This is not your typical How To article. They poke some fun at the Digg Community by showing the types of stories that make the front page (Apple, Microsoft, Global Warming, John Stewart ... etc). It?s hilarious because it?s soooo true. Oct 2, 2006 View in Crawl 4

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fatsobob Oct 2, 2006

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They forgot to mention Ubuntu in there.

icsu Oct 2, 2006

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..installing ubuntu on Nintendo?

balibones Oct 2, 2006

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That man should have been a journalist. This writing is so good on so many levels... I'm digging it and blogging it. Lots n lots of link luv to QuadsZilla and Blackhat SEO.

tofucomputer Oct 2, 2006

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I thought the article was too long (severe ADD!)!LOL!

polygone Oct 2, 2006

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Did everyone forgte "2.0" ?

tsteele93 Oct 2, 2006

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Did you disagree with this part of Crichton's writing? Or did you even read it?There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period. In addition, let me remind you that the track record of the consensus is nothing to be proud of. Let's review a few cases. In past centuries, the greatest killer of women was fever following childbirth . One woman in six died of this fever. In 1795, Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen suggested that the fevers were infectious processes, and he was able to cure them. The consensus said no. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed puerperal fever was contagious, and presented compellng evidence. The consensus said no. In 1849, Semmelweiss demonstrated that sanitary techniques virtually eliminated puerperal fever in hospitals under his management. The consensus said he was a Jew, ignored him, and dismissed him from his post. There was in fact no agreement on puerperal fever until the start of the twentieth century. Thus the consensus took one hundred and twenty five years to arrive at the right conclusion despite the efforts of the prominent "skeptics" around the world, skeptics who were demeaned and ignored. And despite the constant ongoing deaths of women. There is no shortage of other examples. In the 1920s in America, tens of thousands of people, mostly poor, were dying of a disease called pellagra. The consensus of scientists said it was infectious, and what was necessary was to find the "pellagra germ." The US government asked a brilliant young investigator, Dr. Joseph Goldberger, to find the cause. Goldberger concluded that diet was the crucial factor. The consensus remained wedded to the germ theory. Goldberger demonstrated that he could induce the disease through diet. He demonstrated that the disease was not infectious by injecting the blood of a pellagra patient into himself, and his assistant. They and other volunteers swabbed their noses with swabs from pellagra patients, and swallowed capsules containing scabs from pellagra rashes in what were called "Goldberger's filth parties." Nobody contracted pellagra. The consensus continued to disagree with him. There was, in addition, a social factor-southern States disliked the idea of poor diet as the cause, because it meant that social reform was required. They continued to deny it until the 1920s. Result-despite a twentieth century epidemic, the consensus took years to see the light. Probably every schoolchild notices that South America and Africa seem to fit together rather snugly, and Alfred Wegener proposed, in 1912, that the continents had in fact drifted apart. The consensus sneered at continental drift for fifty years. The theory was most vigorously denied by the great names of geology-until 1961, when it began to seem as if the sea floors were spreading. The result: it took the consensus fifty years to acknowledge what any schoolchild sees. And shall we go on? The examples can be multiplied endlessly. Jenner and smallpox, Pasteur and germ theory. Saccharine, margarine, repressed memory, fiber and colon cancer, hormone replacement therap6y…the list of consensus errors goes on and on. Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

herculez Oct 3, 2006

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Global warming is real. To say that there is no real evidence behind it is a blatant lie, and I find it amusing that he links to Michael Chrichton to support his claim.As for Bush-bashing, I for one find it heartening that most diggers seem to have a social conscience, unlike Bush himself.

Closed Account Oct 3, 2006

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Benalla College rocks

acff Oct 30, 2006

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apparently this guy is goodbecause...seriously, look at it

diggerout Dec 10, 2006

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at least . . .

gamingnews Dec 15, 2006

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I can't wait to make the front page with my upcoming article about how Bush and Microsoft team up to take out Firefox. It must be true because my neighbor's cousin said they thought they heard something about it on Fox News while they were doing the dishes in another room.

eredux Jul 20, 2007

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Check out this US Carbon Footprint Map, an interactive United States Carbon Footprint Map, illustrating Greenest States to Cities. This site has all sorts of stats on individual State & City energy consumptions, demographics and State energy offices, State Taxes and more down to the local US City level...<a class="user" href="http://www.eredux.com/states/">http://www.eredux.com/states/</a>

businessmans Aug 21, 2007