tysonhy.com — I am a fellow digger on the #1 social news site digg.com and it also came to my attention of this whole idea of Jason Calacanis paying top news site contributors to be a writer for his own site is just plain sad and wrong. In fact, I was one of them asked to be a writer for his site. Check out the emails I received from him and his team.
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Closed AccountJul 26, 2006
All I know is that a person who writes like this guy will never make it as a writer: "I've received a few emails from him and his "associates" this offer to be work with him to make Netscape a better place." Maybe the guy can write, if he can, why not write for money? I really doubt that Rose would be offended if you can make a buck, he's making bundles off you.
Closed AccountJul 27, 2006
Not that I'm encouraging this but the thought comes to mind - why offer to pay the top Diggers when they could just steal the info they're after? I mean what Digg does is post links to stories and interesting items from other web pages. What is to stop someone from reposting a link they got on Digg? I'm quite sure that if Netscape managed to scoop a cool story it'd show up on Digg in short order - so what is to stop Netscape from simply writing a crawler, or simpler still hiring one person who does not have to have "cool hunter" skills, to just monitor the Digg front page and repost the results on Netscape (or any other site)? That'd net them the same overall result as hiring the top Diggers wouldn't it? Actually it'd be a better result since they'd get all the good stories that are not posted by the elite minority too. It's not as though Digg can really be said to "own" the links that are posted here, since we're just linking to other sites. The blurbs that describe the links would probably be a copy write issue - but if it's a small quoted segment (and the descriptions are often taken directly from the articles as it is) then that should fall under fair use.Basically it seems rather stupid - hiring the top Diggers won't make Netscape's content "exclusive" in any way, and they could get exactly the same info for free - so what's the point? To drum up publicity? I've only heard about this whole "controversy" here on Digg, and it hasn't gotten me curious enough to visit the Netscape Digg-knockoff even once so far. If they're trying to generate an audience that way it ain't working.
dangerouslehJul 27, 2006
I'm gonna keep this short unlike some people ;-) But I just wanna say hell yeah man.. this is what Digg is all about: Community...and sticking it to Netscape :-D
j00fekJul 27, 2006
good read
ramiroJul 27, 2006
It is ludicrous to be offended when someone offers money for your talents. If you don't want it, just say no. There is no need for calling attention to yourself saying "Oh, how noble I am, I do this for free! How dare you offer me money for it?"Best of luck to Netscape. Competition is healthy.
nataspJul 28, 2006
that is just stoopid, i think your missing the *whole* point
knifeattackJul 30, 2006
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