Oh no! My wiki page is being considered for deletion - apparently because there wasn’t enough relevant information (or… I’m just not cool enough for a wiki page). As anyone in the blogosphere knows, it is in poor form to edit your own wiki. Some BOL listeners are trying to help by fleshing it out a little bit, which is fantastic. Jeez, a girl strives for a little legitimacy, and they try to take it all away…

[15:58] lara: http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/spoofs_satire/do_you_have_hipsters.php

[15:58] *** Auto-response sent to lara: I am currently idle.

[15:59] veronica: um…. jasmine saw that from my myspace post

[15:59] veronica: fyi

[15:59] veronica: too bad you’re not on myspace, or you’d know that

[15:59] lara: well la-de-dah

[15:59] veronica: ZING

[15:59] lara: sorry that i don’t buy into every passing fad

[15:59] veronica: PASSING FAD??

[15:59] lara: Zing backatchya

[16:00] veronica: i’ve been on myspace for like 4 years!

[16:00] veronica: hashaha

[16:00] lara: passing fad, much like friendster before it

[16:00] lara: i doubt you’ll be on in in another 4

[16:00] lara: just sayin…

** I get Jasmine to throw something at Lara **

[16:02] lara: too bad i can’t pay someone on the 6th floor to do the same to you…bunch of immature dorks

[16:02] veronica: HAHAHAHAHA

[16:02] veronica: PNWED!

[16:02] lara: um, you’re the one that got mad about it, so in fact, i’d say i’m the PNWer, you’re the PNWe

[16:03] veronica: OMG PONIES!!

[16:03] lara: sorry is that hipster lingo? can i get a translator please?

[16:03] veronica: you are not an internerd

[16:03] lara: some, but not fully

[16:04] lara: sorry….real world is fun occasionally

[16:04] veronica: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/04/01/1526216.shtml

[16:04] veronica: it’s an internet meme

[16:05] lara: but what does it mean?

[16:06] veronica: umm…. oh my god, ponies!!

[16:06] lara: but what DOES IT MEAN!

[16:07] veronica: PONIES!! everyone loves ponies!! what part of ponies don’t you understand?! OMFG PONIES ARE AWESOME!!

[16:07] lara: i guess i like ponies

[16:07] lara: attack!

I’ve been wary of Digg for a while. While I do enjoy using it to track what’s happening on the Interwebs, the comments have become so overwhelmingly troll-ridden that I can’t even stand participating in discussions. They’re supposed to be a “user-driven” site, but now the Internet-at-large is beginning to wonder just what role the editors of the site really do have. Allow me to point you to an article at ForeverGeek, which lays out some interesting theories about how things make it to the front page, and how other stories are almost instantly banned:

What really caught my eye with the situation was the sequence of diggs. On the bottom it notes who has dugg an article, and it lists them in order. Confounding as it was, the two beforementioned stories had the same sixteen people digg the story in a row. So the 7th digger of one article (Insomn1a) was the 7th digger of the other article. In fact, removing bribera’s digg of one article showed that the first nineteen diggs of each article were identical. What made this really interesting was that the 17th digger was none other than Kevin Rose, aka celebrated creator and founder of Digg. I’ve read that Digg gets anywhere from 500,000 to 800,000 readers a day. 16 (or 19) identical diggs for two articles by the same author? 22 of the first 24 diggers being being the same for both articles? Somehow I don’t think that is a coincidence.

There is a tinge of “conspiracy-theory” here, but I’m prepared to put on my tintoil hat. The evidence does not look good for Digg. The site has a great idea going for it, and I sure hope that it doesn’t have dubious means for pumping up links to the front page, or for killing entires that dare question their practices.

Related:

Dig on Digg on the BOL forums.

Digg corrupted? Forever Geek makes the case from Guardian Unlimited

Digging up dirt from Ryan’s blog

Response from Kevin Rose 

BOL listener Rich sent me a link to this article on the Consumerist. Apparently they used a photo from our Flickr group that user Malabooboo made as a joke around the time frame of all my TiVo drama (p.s. my new box came today… HOORAY!). It’s clearly photoshopped. Well, I guess it’s pretty funny/weird. We also discussed this very story about TiVo and the phone bill on the podcast today.