Report Says Compusa For Sale

I saw this post on Digg and had to wonder if we will see a for sale sign in the windows of CompUSA soon. My hope would be for someone like Newegg to buy them out. I would love a Newegg store they wouldn't have to carry everything in stock and you could order direct from them or pick up an online order in store. I'm not sure Newegg would want to leave their current business model though it seems to work great.

Digg Story

Article

Representative Democracy in Social News

With the problems that occurred on Digg in the past week I was thinking of some different types of scenarios.  I was thinking about a social news site that elects it officials.  You could elect users and them give some authority bury stories IE duplicates and have these users post stories (like the Netscape navigators.)  These people could be paid or just do it for recognition.  Elections could be held for these positions and users could campaign for these positions.  I think a human element could solve some of the problems that we have faced with the algorithms.

This is in a sense what Netscape is doing but the Navigators are placed in their position and not elected.  I think this is an interesting concept and am interested in what others have to say.  Let me know your thoughts if there are any flaws or if you like it.

Gas Prices

So gas prices where I live were $2.29 this morning at some gas stations.  This was pretty good news I drive quite a distance to work.  I'm curious at what all of you are paying and where you are?

Why do people post on Digg?

I thought it might be a good idea for a kind of central point for users of Digg to talk about why they post on Digg. If anyone has any ideas for a better location let me know, but for know I was thinking you can just use my comments section. I will start it off.

I post stories on Digg that are almost always news related. I enjoy doing this I do not feel like I am an anchor only that I am spreading someone's work to others. I started out posting here about 4 months ago. My first few posts really sucked, but I learned from them. I started reading and looking at what stories people liked the most and tried to appease the masses. I added 2 friends when I first started Digital Gopher (because I really liked his post) and Kevin Rose (no need to really explain.) They did not add me right away as their friends only after I had a few front page stories that they had dugg. I then started adding more friends as I had more front page stories and more people were adding me. I always try to keep up with my friends post, because I felt like this helped filter the que down as there are typically 4000 stories in it. If I added people that I knew were not spamming I could quickly read their post and digg them. I also digg other posts from users who are not in my friends list this usually occurs when I find something I want to post search for it and it is already submitted.

I guess this turned out how I use digg. So I would have to say the main reason I post on digg is to feel like I contributed something to a story by spreading it to others who may have missed it.

I hope others will post their reasons.

Digg CEO Jay Adelson Defends Digg Users

Last night Jay left some comments in Digg stories to respond to the way some of the Digg users are being treated. The comments were left in two posts: Digg Changes Algorithm; Top User Resigns and Digg Fights to Maintain Fairness and Relevance!.

Jay stated in the comments

"The mistake we made was not being clearer that we were not associating the algorithm change with the top submitters. These guys are hard working, honest contributors to digg and are being unfairly scapegoated.

Please stop with the targeted burying... Digg what you like, bury what you don't. We'll take care of the abusers."

and

"What some users of digg are not getting, and it's our mistake for not making it clearer, is that we did NOT intend to associate our algorithm change with the top submitters! These guys are hard working, honest, amazing contributors to digg, and frankly are being unfairly treated by a few bad apples.

Please, for goodness sake, stop with the targeted burying. Digg stories you like. Bury stories you don't. Don't make this personal. If there is abuse, trust us to deal with it, that is all I can ask."

How things get ugly fast

I have been reading in the media and in comments that the "top Digg users" are protesting because of changes to the algorithm.  I was going to protest as well, but the reason I was going to protest was completely unrelated to this.  I was protesting for the purpose of the way I was treated and how many other people were treated.  I felt as though I had committed much of my time to something for nothing.  After Kevin's blog came out about the changes to the algorithm I did not even care about that.  The blog sounded as though we were a problem, and they had been trying to fix us for a while.  I don't think it was meant to sound like this, (Kevin would be nice for some kind of clarification on that) but oh well I got over it quickly.  I then decided not to protest anything because it was all coming out wrong I thought.  I was not protesting because anyone quit or anything like that only for the way I had been treated.  I wanted to share this with everyone else.  Please let me know how you feel about it.

The Real Digg Conspiracy

I have decided since many people believe there is a huge Digg conspiracy I am going to create one. I will call it Project Mayhem. Any of the top guys are invited to join. The project will consist of one freaking big laser that obtains all its energy from website hits. We will need the power of all the top Diggers to submit links. Once the laser has enough power it will be able to blow up the earth. The plan is to make the most powerful nations pay us $1 billion dollars.

I hope you will join me on this project.

MUHAHAHA MUHAHAHA

Who really cares about all this Digg drama?

I'm sick of this crap now I'm not going to protest anything this has just become ridiculous.  I'm going to continue to post on Digg as well as Netscape and all the people that don't like it can just bury me.  I realized that there are actually a few people that care that we post and I will continue doing it just for them and myself.  I'm going to go on record and say who really cares what the blood mob thinks.  I hope the other guys will take this approach, but if they don't I understand and that is their decision.

Digg is what it is

I'm not going to argue about the "'Democratic'? 'User-driven'? These do not describe Digg" article anymore. My question is what would the users like Digg or the users in question to do? I'm not able to comment on this anymore because I just get buried. The whole concept of Digg is that it is user driven and has no moderators. People complaining about their stories not going to the front page just gets old. I have submitted 351 stories to Digg and I have 45% ratio. That means I have 195 stories I have posted that did not make it to the front. I'm not going to complain about it (though at times I became suspicious about moderators) because the users vote. I shouldn't get mad at anyone for my stories not making it to the front page besides the Digg users, but why get angry with someone for stating their opinion. This is just my opinion as I am entitled to have as well you are entitled to your own opinion.

I for one will not change how I use Digg.

Response: Digg the rigged? A closer look at Digg's democratic model

Just happened to notice this one the front page thought I would write up a response. You are looking at who dugg the stories first. All this does is show you which users are on Digg the most. I often check my friend’s submissions for stories as they are typically the best bookmarkers on Digg. I am often the first to Digg their post because of the amount of time I spend on Digg. This is nothing unusual for people to make accusations because they are having problems gettings stories to the front page. The reason we (top 30 diggers) have so many stories on the front page is because we are constantly watching and are the first to submit an article.

This shouldn't anger anyone it is not as though we only Digg our friends stories. I Digg many other stories look at my dugg stories http://digg.com/users/hemphill81 you will see I am the first to Digg many of them and not all are on my friends lists. I keep up with tech news and news in general far more than the average digger I am sure. I typically start my day out by going through my friends list of submissions checking everything out then start looking for stories to submit while I work, and if I find a story that someone beat me to I Digg theirs instead. If I am doing something wrong someone please let me know, but I am only using the system as it was presented to me.

I like to think the top 30 diggers are doing a service for Digg. We are constantly on Digg contributing and voting on stories. I do know that some people are getting upset with these type accusations as we are doing all of this for free. So before you put on your tinfoil hat think about why these people submit stories. My reasons for posting are to contribute to the site, and I like to think help make it more enjoyable for the users.

"Last night while viewing the frontpage of Digg, I noticed that the #2 user on Digg had 10 of the last 40 most popular stories. After further study, I realized that this user and several of the other top users on Digg regularly are among the first people to Digg each others' stories. What does this mean for Digg? You may find these stats interesting"

read more | digg story

Word flaw hit with zero-day attack

I'm not sure of too many people actually running word 2000, but I'm sure there are plenty out there.

"An "extremely critical flaw" in Microsoft Word 2000 is currently being exploited by malicious attackers, which could lead to remote execution of code on a user's system, security researcher Secunia advised Tuesday."

read more | digg story