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  Robert

  3 years ago

  Don't be suprised if you find youself burried if only motivation for using digg is to generate traffic. Like with any product value is what moves things up and really gets the attention of diggers - who value things like Snakes on Planes, AJAX, Ruby, cheap deals on hardware, all things Apple, Nintendo, web2.0 and a hand full of others. Blog posts will typically receive traffic if they are of the HowTo nature, or have some really good tech gossip - like the information surrounding the release of the MacBookPro. They, however, will not see the time a genuine valueable tool, or affore stated interest in it's native habitat.
  
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  Roger Kondrat

  3 years ago

  Thanks for your thoughts Robert. I will keep them in mind.
  
  I appreciate the value you place on the nobility of the Digger viewership. That your peers should respect Digg as a valuable tool not to be abused. I agree it should be used that way. The question is do you believe it is being used that way? If not it is up to consultants like myself to understand its competitive advantages.
  
  Small publishers (some large problogger)put Digg on our posts. Because being dugg is great for traffic. I myself believe being honest and digging your own article once so it gets its 5 seconds of view time isn't a sin. After all I wrote it and believe its of value. What can be wrong with that.
  
  Ultimately I am not certain I will use Digg 'actively' but it is my job to understand how Digg affects the online market and under what circumstances it can be used ethically and effectively.
  
  Ultimately my posts will rise or fall based on Digger's like yourself as you pointed out who have the power to vote up or down anything I digg and in much greater numbers.
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  Robert

  3 years ago

  Agreed. Digg has a similar nature as the laissez-faire economy - the lesser content will be automatically regulated and the quality content will get its deserved traffic (while in some cases that may tend to be a little overwhelming).
  
  Your thoughts on Digg promotion is apropos. Digg itself is ultimately a profit vehicle, and I would Digg anything I submitted too (shameless self-promotion or not, there is a reason I publish what I publish).
  
  enjoy the exchange,
  robert
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  Roger Kondrat

  3 years ago

  I like these types of discussions as well Robert, whenever I can learn something I always walk away happy.
  
  Cheers,
  Roger
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  Will McInnes

  3 years ago

  It's worth experimenting with. There are certainly ethical concerns to be aware of but the feeling from our discussion was that it's cool to Digg yourself once to seed the community, but definitely not cool to then be digging multiple times in order to manipulate things.
  
  Here are the results our very modest experiment yielded - it basically works... http://blog.willmcinnes.co.uk/blog/2006/06/notes_on_using_.html
  
  Nice blog by the way :)
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  Roger Kondrat

  3 years ago

  Hi Will,
  
  Saw your site earlier (referenced it in my post) but didn't see the post you mentioned but thanks for pointing it out.
  
  I like what you are saying about choosing when to Digg as opposed to just Digging everything (kinda like carpet bombing). Tomorrow I will publish my results as well.
  
  All in all I think I learned lots from this experiment.
  
  Cheers,
  Roger
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  Technological Winter Blog Arch

  2 years ago

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  Nate

  2 years ago

  Theres a site out there called DiggHelper.com that helps promote your digg articles if youre looking to generate more traffic from digg. It’s main purpose is to help businesses who use digg.com to promote themselves.
  
  http://digghelper.com
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