Web Comic Beef on Digg

The world’s widest web is constantly widening and hey, there’s money to be made because of a new audience. With this new audience comes new genres of self expression. Some of these are good for the world like the new genre of brilliant remixes that used to be quarantined to the ears in the club [...]

Top Words on Digg

Here is a graphic with the top words in Digg titles over the past month. It provides us with a visual representation of what interests Digg users. The biggest words are pic and video, which says a lot about where people click to most impulsively, stuff they don’t have to read. But the next step [...]

UConn Journalism Crowd Sourcing Project

In my Social Media class, we read Jeff Howe’s book, “Crowd Sourcing.” In the book Howe explains the theory which basically means outsourcing a task to a large group with an open call. The Internet has exponentially increased the power of this and my class wanted to further explore the concept. So, we crowd sourced [...]

Top Story Spotlight: Miracle Whip -vs- Colbert

There is new beef forming in our popular culture. Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel? Unimportant. John and Kate? Even less important. Stephen Colbert and a condiment? Earth-shattering. A few months ago Miracle Whip, a company that makes a mayonnaise-like product that doesn’t call itself mayonnaise started reaching out at that profitable 18-35 market. How do you [...]

A Digg Movement Against Full Background Ads

Yesterday on Digg, a story rapidly rose to the top, where it sits today. But this was not your average story, rather more of a gripe. Users are protesting the full background ads that seem to be sweeping my favorite websites. I was devastated to see the scourge of the Internet hit my beloved Digg. [...]

Shark Bitten in Half by Other Shark Show’s Potential of Internet Nature Programming

The nature of the nature documentary business is quite sluggish. Crews post up in rainforests or on towering piles of bat guano for hours, days, or weeks waiting for the perfect shot. I mean look at Planet Earth, probably the most successful nature doc in a long time. It took four years to film and [...]

Digg Ups the Ads

Digg’s advertising has been on the incline of late. It started with the banner ads. Though I was slightly miffed to see them, I was fine with it. Digg gots to get paid too. Next, the fake stories on the front page. Hmm. These are stories that are denoted by faint lines and “sponsored by” [...]

Thank You for Saving the World, Stanislav Petrov.

On Sept. 26, 1983, one man saved the planet. He attributed a heroic action (inaction) to “a feeling in the gut.” He was persecuted for maintaining peace and avoiding a nuclear holocaust. Who is this social pariah? Never before (probably) have nerves of steel and icy veins combined to prolong the existence of mankind. The [...]

Digg iPhone App Awkwardly Confirmed By Kevin Rose

This week the FOWA (Future of Web Apps) convention went down in London. There, two lucky bloggers for the tech sitre, Sofaprat, got to interview Kevin Rose, founder of Digg. Before their recorded interview, Rose let the reporters sneak a peek at the Digg iPhone app, currently in development. Rose certainly did not think these [...]

Glenn Beck Hatred Fail

Let me start this off by saying that I detest Glenn Beck as much as the next reasonable human being. Politics aside, the man uses his startling, glossed over, Precious Moments eyes to hypnotize fear into an ignorant target audience while his disjointed logic goes unquestioned by his faithfuls. Today, Conservatives are much less powerful [...]