What is Digg?72 Comments
- tagliare, on 10/12/2007, -20/+104Blog spam, direct link:
http://digg.com/tools/integrate - jayadelson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29We could add a section to the front page that forces people to see our announcements, like we used to... Instead we thought that this was a bit friendlier in that if the users didn't think it was important, it wouldn't make the home page.
Unless I'm missing something, I think this hardly would be as self promoting as forcing it... - jspegele, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27I wasn't saying this article is blogspam, and yes I know who the submitter is. I'm saying that this feature will contribute to blogspam. Good or bad, this button will, as it predecessors did, dramatically increase the amount of blogspam on the site, because everyone and their mother who has a blog will be putting one of these buttons on each and every crappy, pointless article they post.
You can all un-bunch your panties now, I wasn't insulting Kevin Rose. - jinglee, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26Why is it that when Kevin Rose diggs his own blog, it comes to the top, but if I do it, I am dugg down!???
Rules are rules...buried as spam.. - jspegele, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I just realized how my first comment read, since the link for this submission goes to blog.digg.com. I didn't realize where the link went (I'm at work and that page is blocked). Based on that, my first comment deserved to be buried.
- swin101, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Solves several gripes made by the Digg community in one shot. Fantastic work!
- spiderland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@jinglee:
Because it's original content. There's a difference between original content and paraphrase/click-through "content." Unfortunately, most blog submissions are of the latter. - listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Anyone else notice that this brand-spankin' new "digg this" button is mysteriously absent from the blog post?
Nicely done, though. Rich APIs are always welcome. - spiderland, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Sounds good, but doesn't this just encourage blog paraphrase/click-though submissions?
After all, Digg encourages linking directly to the source, yet it seems like only 1% of all blog submissions (including the larger ones like Engadget, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, etc.) actually provide any original content.
Blog paraphrase/click-through articles just dilute content, offer hardly any sense of real journalism, and seem to be motivated purely by adsense dollars. - listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Um, if I were in Kevin's, Jay's, etc position, I'd do exactly the same thing. And I'm pretty sure I'm not alone on that.
- Rio517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It'd be nice if you could have a disappearing button submit button, which gives way to the normal "Digg This" button. By this I mean:
>>Submit Button: Small 16x16 digg logo, visible only in your postmetadata until someone submits your story. Then it is no longer necessary and disappears.
>>Main Digg Button: Larger, vote button, perhaps floating in with the story content. This would only be active/visible after after the story is submitted. - jgrgg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4lmao after reading jinglee's comment i decided to look at kevin's submitted story # and then look at the ones that made front page...for some reason i dont think any1 else could submit 215 stories and have a 100% ratio
http://digg.com/users/kevinrose/profile - scotsman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes, great question. We need ot for blogger too.
- unitedstatians, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@rjani57 you convinced me, Digg needs a digg news ticker or container section.
- manatee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ironic there is no digg button on the story page
- robharrigan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Anyone else notice when using the compact button, the 'number of diggs' link tries to open in the current iframe, rather than the parent window via target="_top" like the 'digg it' link does?
- MAG1CO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The podcast Digg button is great, I have been waiting for this for our podcast since the podcast section was created.
- michaeldillon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3For the coding inept, how would you incorporate these new features in the new Blogger templates?
- jinglee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@spiderland
give me and my blog a chance.... ;)
@jgrgg
There is one more guy..He is called Michael Arrington and I believe he has a dozen fake profile prowling over here..Each time he submits his blog TechCrunch here, it straightaway finds its way to the front page.. - mornif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just tried the compact one on a website, but it randomly was the compact one or the regular sized one. This is quite a problem because the big one breaks my layout. I guess I'll be waiting until the get all they bugs out.
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if it's written in javascript, why not just use digg_url = location.href; then you don't need to worry about any PHP and it will work across any site...
- palmer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Any site that sucks up to Digg with such a button should be banned.
Talk about pathetic pandering, and bringing DOWN the quality of stuff on this site. - stephdau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's how to take advantage of the new version in your Blogger template.
http://tekartist.blogspot.com/2007/02/integrating-upgraded-digg-tools-in.html - thuffner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DId anyone else notice this bug?
When I click on the number of diggs an article of mine gets, it tries to open its digg page in the tiny box the digg button is in...
Try clicking on this article's # of diggs link:
http://www.bondmovies.com/news/55.shtml
A bug? If so, I think my comment should be dugg to solve the issue... - waffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2To add the digg button to WordPress, put <?php echo get_permalink() ?> between the digg_url quotes. You'll probably want to add this to single.php as well as index.php
- thomasjordan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good point. Either method will work. Carguy84's might be a little easier, though.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'm flattered that my comment got a response from the CEO. Thanks Jay. Curious how my comment got buried simply because I appeared to be challenging the leadership!
I like the idea of a section dedicated for announcements like these. Don't wish to start splitting hairs but I think that is more user-friendly than a standard post. If the announcement is important, surely Digg wants the whole community to be abreast of it? Not just those who happen to have seen the front page when it got there.
On my comment about self-promotion. I guess what I am asking is if there is a risk of that as a perception. If so, can Digg risk alienating its community because of such a perception? I cannot be the only submitter struggling to get noticed (some submissions are unique and worthy causes). A Digg-related post from Kevin or Jay grabs attention in minutes (this one made it to the front in less than an hour). My question is - is that at the expense of something else that is unique or worthy but submitted by someone who does not have Kevin or Jay's profile to rise so quickly? - pcx99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Compact has a bug. Any clicks inside the compact load the page in the micro-iframe the compact digg is sitting in. Compact needs a target to break out of the iframe otherwise it's useless.
:( - bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Just call "blogspam" "splog"... people are incredibly confused over the fact that some CMS sites are hosts to content, and some are hosts to spam...
Just as email is not spam:
Blogs!=Spam (though sometimes on very rare occasions I've seen really ***** splog posts reach the front page only to be buried minutes later by diggs very thorough burying technology) - shepdave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For the life of me, I can't make it work for my podcast. I put the code into a blogpost for an episode, including the Digg permalink for the whole podcast (not episode), but even after an episode has been submitted and dugg, it still says 0 diggs on the button.
So I just took the button out. I've got a button in the sidebar that links to my podcast permalink at Digg, and a few people have gone that route. But it seems like a pretty tedious process to digg a podcast episode, unless I'm missing something. - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Maybe now they could fix the comment threshold routinely ignoring my preference and setting it to '+0'?
- muesli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1same issue here :-( also the automatic url detection doesn't seem to work properly.
- mesoed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Still waiting on the ability to easily digg podcast episodes...
- thomasjordan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sorry, didn't see it right off to fix it... digg stripped out the php opening tag.
It was something along the lines of:
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] - tagliare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@goodgod
Read the blog post. Does it add any useful information that the direct link doesn't provide?
If it was written or submitted by any other person, people would come out of the woodwork and complain. - stephdau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yup. Was gonna report the same thing (bad target in compact mode). Neat upgrade nonetheless.
- thomasjordan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I noticed it right off the bat.
The compact mode needs a little fix action. Looks like I will stick to the old digg-guy image for now. - root2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The "compact" skin doesn't seem to work on my site for some reason. Bummer.
- Anth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Took long enough ;)
- froinlaven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I was thinking of writing something like this, but then got lazy. It's good to see this become a reality, since I bet a ton of people were wishing for it.
- TemplateBlogger, on 01/17/2009, -0/+0Thanks for share.
http://www.templatesblogger.net - jedi58, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0maybe they could also fix the HTML validation issues....make it possible to include it without invalidating your page (ampersands have been done as & instead of &)
would be nice for a future upgrade if position of it could be done by specifying an elements ID instead....means the script include can be in the header where it's mean to be instead of 1/2 way down the page where you want it to appear - .mark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I still can't get my blogspot account working...
- ralphie81, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Ok, I know I'm gonna get dugg down here because I'm using the evil Microsoft, but how would you incorporate it with a .net datalist? In the template I have tags such as ...%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "ID") %...
which work fine with anchor tags and the like....how do I get that to work with javascript though? - TechPedia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2-5! That's what you get for asking a question, stupid! Some people will never learn!
- tagliare, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1error
- kwago, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4it feels like burning
- seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1shutup, hobo.
- thomasjordan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1From the 'integrate' page:
"Replace WEBSITE_URL, with the URL that you want to use."
You will have to write into the 'digg_url' the current url of your page. In PHP it'd be something like:
digg_url = '';
Apologies ahead of time if that isn't totally right, goin' off the top of me head. - TechPedia, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Hmm. Anyone see a way to make it automatically add the appropriate url? And I wonder how to pass Wordpress variables like title/excerpt to the script. May need to stick with a plugin for now. But I really like the compact view...
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