Archive for the 'digg' Category

Why Reddit is better than Digg for normal people submitting articles

August 20th, 2007

So Henry Social Network User has written a brilliant article on his blog. The problem is that no one goes to his blog, and no one will read his article. Henry has a plan. He is a regular user of a few social networks and goes out and submits his to the two he uses [...]


How many backlinks does getting Dugg get you?

February 7th, 2007

Two days ago Google released a new feature in their webmaster tools which display who is linking to your website. It was interesting to see that two of my posts which were recently on digg.com had several times more backlinks than my home page.
Home Page - 0 diggs - 531 backlinks
Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments [...]


What happens when you get dugg by Kevin Rose?

February 2nd, 2007

Kevin Rose digg’s your site, it will make it to the front page of digg if it is not there already. Unfortunately, the effect of being on Kevin Rose’s dugg page is lost in the massive amount of traffic you recieve from the digg front page. Luckily I had the unique experience of having Kevin [...]


Top 90 Most Dugg Comments

January 15th, 2007

Here are some more statistics… This one is an update of this digg.

comment
user
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1
Let’s set a new record, bitches. Digg me down.
choicetoes
1184

link to digg?

2
I don’t get it. Every time I click that link, it comes right back to here. But when I hover over it, the link is different…
Lemme try it in IE…
Nope! GODDAMNIT!
Lemme download [...]


Top 1001 Duplicate Digg Comments

January 14th, 2007

I was not really satisfied with my previous post on duplicate digg comments and decided to fix my code and generate a better list. I also updated the user comment database with my new data. Just a reminder that this data is from front page stories from the last 365 days. This list was generated [...]


Digg Comment Data

January 14th, 2007

Some people were interested in downloading a copy of the digg.com comment data used in these 2 posts. So I fixed a few bugs in my spider code and now the data is over a gigabyte uncompressed and contains over 4 million comments. The compressed file is about 340MB. I know a lot of [...]


Digg User Comment Statistics

January 11th, 2007

Here are some user statistics taken from the comments on the top ~30,000 articles of the last year(same data as before). For the users not on one of these lists, you can check your digg commenting statistics. The best/worst comment tables only list users with at least 10 comments.
I tab delimited text file of the [...]


Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments from 2006

January 9th, 2007

UPDATE: Top 1001 Duplicate Digg Comments
With all of the “But will it blend” and “Pic it or it didnt happen” comments on digg.com I though it would be interesting to tally up the duplicate comments from the last year. My script ran through 1,255,627 comments from the ~30,000 most popular stories of last year. [...]