What is Digg?20 Comments
- Traedortious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8digg is for news, not ridiculous blog wars. We don't care about your blog and if you don't agree with Michael Arrington (whoever this guy is), you ought to:
a) keep it to yourself, or
b) provide some constructive insight and analysis - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6what? who?
??? - MrShoop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Payperpost is crap - home many "bloggers" did they pay to get this on Digg?
- goostoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Can you leave your squabbles back in the dark corners of the Internet where they started? We are trying to spread more information about Apple, Google, YouTube, and the Wii. The last thing we need to hear is two bloggers bickering back and forth.
Well... actually the last thing we all need is for two bloggers to have their heads get bigger than they already are. - legendxx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5i think i speak for the majority when i say...
what the ***** - dengzhi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2who is this guy? who cares?
- mattjb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That blog post reminds me of two bickering kids I overhead this Halloween, whining about which is the best candy. This guy disagrees with Mr. Arrington, so he insults him. Not very mature. Reported this as lame.
- DrumsNWhistles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Kypt,
Michael Arrington is a blogger who owns Techcrunch (http://techcrunch.com) and related sites. Techcrunch is one of the most prominent "Web 2.0" review sites. If you are a startup and you want to be seen, being blogged by Michael Arrington is about the best thing that can happen to you, unless he hates you, like he seems to hate PPP. I have never seen him drip vitriol at anything the way he does at this company. I don't know why, but he does it without having all the facts at hand, too, which makes it even worse. - DrumsNWhistles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Until now I didn't even know this had been submitted to digg. i discovered it while reading through my stats for the end of the month. To whoever submitted it, thank you, but it wasn't me.
I actually agree -- Digg should be for news, not squabbling. There are many very insightful and newsworthy posts on this topic, but mine isn't one of them. There are, however, other posts linked in my post which are far more interesting and worth reading.
With that said and since it's here, I think I'll digg it since it's my own post.
dnW - Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now, I've read the article, but...who's Arrington and why should I care? (Note: This is not one of those "who gives a *****" questions. I really would like to know)
- esengulov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1still have nothing to comment...
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, i was about to say the same thing... WhoTF is Michael Arrington?
- illegalamigo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2digg effect after 33 diggs and it's on the front page
welcome to digg everybody - brian1001001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I don't use Pay-per-post but I have to agree that there's something about Arrington's animosity that strikes me as odd... I mean it's not as if blogging is pure as the wind driven snow and PPP is the first corrupting influence. Even Arrington takes sponsorships on his blog. So what's the big deal? People raised concerns about the lack of disclosure, PPP offered a solution.
Anyway, I have to at least agree with the intent of the linked post. Arrington needs to relax and if he wants to be seen as a reporter of the Web 2.0 thing, he needs to not be biased either way about the companies he covers. - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I didnt get the digg effect and I looked at it before your comment was posted.
- Jammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Exactly. Some tech blogger that supposively has been mentioned in some major venues ... *yawn* ... whatever. He really doesn't wield much power at all, since anyone that's somebody in tech has either never heard of him or doesn't care what he writes about.
- DrumsNWhistles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That guy is a female -- me. And of course, you don't know the backstory, but it goes deeper than just disagreement.
When someone wields the kind of power that Michael Arrington does and uses it as a bully stick it's time to call him out on it. The post I took issue with is the third in a series of vendetta-like lashings, where no matter how many steps are taken to work toward some kind of dialogue, he just uses the smackdown technique.
Now I agree that my post isn't very informative and isn't really very clear as to what the issues really are, but some of the posts I linked in the updates are, and they're worth reading.
DnW - mianos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Actually welcome to digg gaming. Do these users have something familiar:
flicknut, mindstyle1, supernova17. They digg every article in the queue of this guy every time. Much the same as capn_caveman, zaibatsu, zepequeno for the rest.
A couple of simple scripts and you will see much the same pattern with many of the top posters (not all of course). - GoodBrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I'm getting kind of sick of Arrington and his own questionable personal disclosure policy, but come on, this is attempt at a pissing match is lame. And so is PayPerPost, while you are at it.
- aximbigfan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1http://duggtrends.com/diggmirror.aspx
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