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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Self importantance
The users are themselves strong proponents of the site. Any link with a description applauding Digg is quickly promoted. Many users use this to get links promoted even if the relationship to Digg is tenuous at best. There is often a rush to submit links to new content on sister sites as a means of karma whoring. (from wikipedia.org) - truk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's got to be the worst article I have ever read on wired.com. It sounds more like a high schooler's rambling blog entry than a professional journalist, and the timeline of events it tells is not the same as I remember. Which came first, digg or Rose's leaving G4. Well, he promoted digg on G4 before he left. Which came first, digg or Jay Adelson? Rose announced Jay was joining after the site had been up for a while and started becoming successful.
- peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I always thought everything started with Kevin helping out a friend beta test digg... And not Kevin having the idea."
You got it all wrong. Shortly after Kevin perfected cold fusion he invented Digg.
Of course, his was all after he crafted the universe from his ear wax. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Is that not the corniest title you've ever seen? I can just FEEL the cavities forming...
- tryferos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Eh this site is cool, and Kevin seems to be a cool guy, but like the article says, there are other people involved who are just as important to Digg.
- Billistic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So digg is now the official site for getting digg news.
Wow. - robweber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that article was poorly written, and didn't have any information anyone on digg a while didn't know already.
- raremage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Eh. Seems more like an attempt by Wired to get to the tp of the Digg list. They had to know folks would digg it just because it talks about Kevin.
- netnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1See, I thought of the Batman movie with Nicole Kidman (whichever one that was) and that crappy Seal video associated with it.
The headline is misleading and honestly, the article is not well written -- it focuses too much on Kevin and not enough on the digg team as a whole. Still, it's a semi-interesting article. - disord3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OMG Kevin Rose. When I hear his name, I can't control myself. Me knees become weak. Kevin Rose why won't you love me?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Title sucks butt. It's good to read a little more about the history though. Fanboi title tho...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2jesus. this site is getting really gay.
- mattclare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WOW, is that title lame!
The article does confirm something I've been thinking for, well, almost a year now. Rob Malda came on TSS and showed Kevin how Slashdot worked and then a month later Kevin starts a better version. No wonder Kevin's a big Apple fan, Slashdot's his XEROX PARK. - jonvaughan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how crap is Wired these days? I'm still getting the RSS but this is the first link I'd clicked on in ages. And it's another load of information-free junk. It's like tech based stories written by people who don't get it, for people who don't get it.
- Eaglet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aaaaand...back on the front page. Crazy.
- Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1One time I was with Rose in the back of a pickup truck, along with a live deer. Rose goes up to the deer and says, 'I'm Kevin Rose! SAY IT!' Then he manipulates the deer's lips in such a way as to make it say, 'Kevinrose' ... It wasn't exactly like it, but it was pretty good for a deer!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Better how, exactly? Lots of blog posts and non-news makes the front page? Commenters at digg are generally twits? Items posted 4 or more times? Yeah, that's alot better."
This is kinda harsh. I mean, that article "HOWTO: Set up Apache/PHP/MySQL In Windows" I find informative each time it gets 600 diggs.
Besides, what other site lets you know what the guys behind it eat for breakfast? This is g00d stuf! h4x0rs 4ev0rs! - thomasjcollins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"...XEROX PARK."
ahh, the infamous Palo Alto Research Kitchen. Creators of the LCD fruit roll-up!! ALL HAIL THE XEROX PARK!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i was expecting something from axl or pete here.
you get no digg, and may god have mercy on your soul. - Zerocool82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is a weird title. But I'm happy more people will come to digg. It's mosty about the same things. Hope they have fixed all the problems with the old and new severs.
- terminalfreeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1And some chocolate tigg cake too.
- winner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wired news bites. That read like a fan magazine.
- Ryokurin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Does anyone read the title and think of digg being a frog?
- peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just took off my pants!
- lamprey187, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no digg, just on title alone. Digg is a damn cool site, but I am not down with these kissy ass flowery stories. An objective or moderately technical history of the site that did not have the words "kiss" or "rose" in the headline would be worth digging.
- Raven_One, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am digging so he might have to talk about it on Diggnation =)
- Hitchhiker90, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Great, more reasons for the people here to kiss Kevin's ass.
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Still, any nominated story that happens to name-check Rose is certain to be promoted to the top of the front page by users."
- alterself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://futureloveparadise.co.uk/lyrics/albums/seal2.html#6
"kiss from a rose on the grey"
yes...where better to get news about that site that you use daily, o wait...its an offsite link...hmm. *shrug* - Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Did I ever tell you about the time Rose took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally Rose takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. Kevin yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found em!'
- wezzul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The article does confirm something I've been thinking for, well, almost a year now. Rob Malda came on TSS and showed Kevin how Slashdot worked and then a month later Kevin starts a better version. No wonder Kevin's a big Apple fan, Slashdot's his XEROX PARK."
Better how, exactly? Lots of blog posts and non-news makes the front page? Commenters at digg are generally twits? Items posted 4 or more times? Yeah, that's alot better.
WEZ - thecookie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I always thought everything started with Kevin helping out a friend beta test digg, with a blogg entery, asking for people signing up for the beta? And not Kevin having the idea..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Oh i'm sorry it doesn't seem like you can think. well you're really missing out."
Zinga! - mathie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just found digg a couple days ago and I like it. It's come the time when there are enough people online to make the social information filtering useful.
- ebenthurston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0poor kevin.
he has hordes of screaming fans throwing themselves at him, but instead of teen girls, they're twenty-something guys. - Flawless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"You got it all wrong. Shortly after Kevin perfected cold fusion he invented Digg. Of course, his was all after he crafted the universe from his ear wax."
Coffee just shot out of my nose, and peerk, you owe me a new keyboard. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Albertpacinosucks.be
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ben add me to MSN!
- UnclePunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Asstacular article title
- barnkim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0meh...there have been better articles.
- RonTarson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0all i can say is, wtf nerfdude?
- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"seriously though, who else gets an erection looking at kevin rose? check out that hair, boy, oh yeah"
honestly there's something about Kevin, he can sell tea too don't forget that (and the tea is actually really good) - Mongoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great article. I didn't know that. :-
- neza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"One time I was with Rose in the back of a pickup truck, along with a live deer. Rose goes up to the deer and says, 'I'm Kevin Rose! SAY IT!' Then he manipulates the deer's lips in such a way as to make it say, 'Kevinrose' ... It wasn't exactly like it, but it was pretty good for a deer!"
OMG, LMAO. - Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road.
- mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0god, What is it with the homoeroticism that will undoubtedly surface when diggers refer to Kevin Rose? You guys are creeping me out. And if I were "Mr. Rose" I'd be too.
- ashtonium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0looks like the site has been grave-dugg
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha Kevin Rose is awesome.
- Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He once had sex with a cigarette machine!
- Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Kevin Rose had a four day heart attack...a day for each chamber. At the autopsy, they said his heart looked like a basketball filled with riccotta cheese.
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