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- nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19so....where was digg mentioned in that "story"?
- misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Digg seems to give the users a real feeling of ownership, given the nature of submitting and digging articles, and digg users more than most websites seem to relish any mention of the website that they think they are an integral part.
Not that this is bad, I am one of these diggers who enjoys reading digg for the tech news, but mostly I appreciate the community of digg and the "membership" therein. - millifoo, on 10/12/2007, -16/+32
Why do people get so excited when digg shows up somewhere else? The owners of digg getting excited - yeah, that makes sense. But joe-random-user? With two exclaimation marks, no less. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Digg is a blogg?
Does that mean CNN.com is a blog?
Drudgereport.com is a blog?
webmd.com is a blog?
w3c.org is a blog? - TheSource, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Digg is not mentioned in the story. It is shown, however, when he discusses the Simpson's video. When he was talking about how the Internet is going crazy over the live action Simpsons intro, they highlight a computer screen scrolling down the old comment system here on Digg.
But what I find amazing about Digg is that it's possibly the one site where the headline relates to a small video cap in a Dateline story than the more interesting topic the story itself covers. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5http://msnbc.wmod.llnwd.net/a275/e1/video/100/dtl_mank_blogs_060312.asf
- baltakatei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*right click* -> "Open Link in New IE Tab"
B] Who needs IE when you have Firefox?
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1419 - jthx1138, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Yes! A website that reports on itself!! I love recursive stories!!! The medium IS the message. Marshall McLuhan would be proud.
- ubern00b, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3+one for you. Still do not see the digg comments though, looks like the youtube comments to me.
- reaver, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Since when is youtube a ***** blog?
When is digg mentioned? - jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Digg on Digg!!!
- Godric, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Awesome. Was it featured in the segment "To Catch a Predator, Part 6"?
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5it wasn't "mentioned," but digg's topic forums were flashed on the screen for about 120 microseconds. you have to watch the video.
"so cool!" - serra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am on the internet ALL of the time, and this is the first time that I've seen or heard of that Simpsons video. And I love it.
- EPeters, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Someone please post the video to google, or utube. I hate WMP.
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3When it comes to mainstream media reporting on blogs all those you listed as well as Fark and Slashdot are considered blogs as well.
- Conway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't believe people dugg this story. Big deal if digg is flashed on a video for 1/4 sec. I think this was supposed to be a video on Dateline talking about digg. I can't stand that reporter either (Josh Mankiewicz). He's the best NBC can find to report on tech news?
Nice to know digg is a blog. That was news. - Wires, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One word sums it up, "So?"
- noelsusman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
Well, according to Wikipedia digg.com is a blog. And we all know wikipedia is god and they know everything.
"A blog entry typically consists of the following:
Title - main title, or headline, of the post.
Body - main content of the post. Blogs use a conversational style of documentation.
Permalink - the URL of the full, individual article.
Post Date - date and time the post was published.
Comments - comments added by readers
Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses
Trackback - links to other sites that refer to the entry"
"A blog has certain attributes that distinguish it from a standard web page. It allows for easy creation of new pages: new data are entered into a simple form (usually with the title, the category, and the body of the article) and then submitted. Automated templates take care of adding the article to the home page, creating the new full article page (Permalink), and adding the article to the appropriate date- or category-based archive."
I'd say that pretty much has digg written all over it (or over most of it).
As you can see, digg is a blog. It is just not a traditional blog. Digg is a blog that everybody controls, not just some random dude. That's really the only difference between digg and the traditional blog - Cglass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3IE is so horrible that I want to strangle myself while being electrocuted ... now I can't watch the video for these reasons.
- ubern00b, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Digg was not mentioned or shown that I could tell after watching the video(if anyone actually did). What I find really interesting is that NBC is using Youtube. They use it when it helps there story but it is not good enough for SNL.
- Namco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why the hell are we all coined as bloggers all of a sudden? WTF... so I have a blog, so what? I watched the simpsons live action video and got a kick out of it, but I didn't write a blog post about it.
The media really has to stop throwing around buzzwords all the time and work on the accuracy of their reporting. - grendel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I will sleep better tonight.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've been wondering that too.
- serra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm also on the "I'm not using IE to view that *****" bandwagon. Sorry.
- TheSource, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ah, I've never looked at YouTube comments myself, but it has that old yellowish look that used to be on Digg so I only assumed that's what the guy was mentioning.
- Th3_anOmoLy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1don't you mean diggnation.com/users/joe-random-user.....
- majordanger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3As far as I can tell Digg is not mentioned on Dateline.
Bad title.
No Digg from me. - TheSource, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah that really annoyed me as well. But I'm used to it with NBC. I just tend to forget they require IE, which is retarded. Come on people, multiple browser compliance dammit!
- snarkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3If I described a site as having short, timely posts with links to primary information sources, accompanied by a comments section and RSS feeds, I think most people would say "Oh. Sounds like a blog." So, here's how I score 'em:
>Digg is a blogg?
Yep. I would call it a community blog. Slashdot is definitely a blog. Fark is formatted a little differently, and they take themselves less seriously, but I would still call it a blog.
>Does that mean CNN.com is a blog?
No. CNN.com is a primary news source.
>Drudgereport.com is a blog?
Yep. No comments, but I don't think that kills it.
>webmd.com is a blog?
Nope. Primary news source.
>w3c.org is a blog?
No. w3.org has a front page with short posts and RSS feeds, but it's virtually all internal news, and the rest of the site is all standards-related stuff. - rookieone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1for a minute there it looked like they had break.com on one of the websites but it wasnt, and i never saw digg.
- gODfall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg is a blog?? so what's a website? Wow the media is really screwed up.
- AmZa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What.. did they do an exposé on how digg is dangerous for your children and a breeding ground for hackers?
- gamer31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that wasnt digg you saw that was the Youtube comments. look at the URL, also go to youtube and check the comments on any video they look the same.
- Mexrocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did not see Digg mentioned at al in that video...
- northLite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1was just about to post the same thing
everything is a blog these days... I dont consider digg a blog, just a news site with a twist
seriously by these standards what isnt a blog? - Rio517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My god, I can't even believe how uninformed this guy is. If you listen to it without watching, it almost sounds like he is getting paid by the number of times he says blog.
I love the reading youtube comments to validate the "blog world's" interest in the Simpson's video. "Wow." "This is sweet." "Genius." Ridiculous. Why the heck didn't he mention how many views it had gotten and compare that to the cost of the TV spots that would be required to reach a similar audience. it would be so easy for him to do.
And "producing a film that good wouldn't be cheap"? This guy clearly knows nothing about video production either. I'm not deep into it, but I know enough art students to know that if everyone volunteered their time, and there were access to school equipment, just about everything could have been shot on green-screen and put together for a few hundred dollars. It would have taken a while and I'm not saying it would be easy. But it wouldn't be impossible.
From the "Blog world" that "can't get enough," Thanks, Josh! You're just super. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whats up with everybody calling Digg a "blog" these past few days?
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thanks for the vid* mojo*
- Thorpe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Gonna have to whip out Internet Explorer for the video.
- Miyazaki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Damn, that guy had the V mask in his office.
Lucky. - jamesezar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1nice, i was watching dateline when they showed this. it was a good segment... but i didnt really see any digg?
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Who really cares? It is cool that they mentioned it though.
- truebullfan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2stupid website wants you to have ie6 to play there videos. No thanks even though i have ie tab extension
- n3tw0rk@dm!n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Same here. Can't be viewed from Firefox, refers to Digg as a blog... No Blogg, I mean, er... digg.
- jothan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not everyone has the "luck" to have IE/WMP handy, I would hope website authors would realize this.
- TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Can't view the video in Firefox, IE only? No digg.
- subzeroash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice to know that FOX actually made the live-action simpsons open, but it's kinda false to say that it's "Digg on Dateline" when they had about 3.5 seconds of b-roll showing Digg from a strange angle on a computer monitor. If everyone cares about Digg showing up anywhere mainstream then why aren't there more than 40 diggs on the snl parody vid: http://digg.com/technology/SNL_Parodies_Diggnation_(Actual_Vid)
- xalax, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5it is about as bad as when some type of professional team wins...
if its football, baseball, basketball, or even hockey...
when I hear someone say, " I can't believe WE won the championship"...
I think to myself...
I really didn't see your 350 pound ass on the field.
So why the hell would you get excited about it. - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1maybe it was minidig, digg's little brother with only one 'g'
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