Make Sense?

With the new digg comment system, does it even make sense to continue with this blog? Did it EVER make sense? :P

I could just continue with the reviews of the digg clones.

Fake Digg #2: VideoBomb

Video Bomb is one of those sites that honestly, needn't exist yet it should. It's a ridiculous statement, I know. The whole concept of it is to imitate digg, but the hook is, it's for videos. It works by you getting your video from Google Video, or even YouTube, both of which allow you to upload video of your own. From there you submit the videos to the site and people vote for which video goes to the front page. The area where your videos or "bombs" are submitted to is called "Incoming!", how witty...



From the VideoBomb FAQ:

Video Bomb is a community site for people to bring together and share the best videos on the web. You can share interesting videos with a wide audience by posting, commenting and tagging videos on the site.

The tagging feature should prove useful for finding specific videos when you search. The thing is, I just think that this is something digg can incorporate, sorry to say, or even YouTube can do it for that matter. It even has a nicer interface and aesthetically pleases you. A YouTube/digg merger/integration would really be something interesting to see.

Video Bomb is worth a look, if not for passing the time by watching funny videos or seeing what the latest viral marketing thingamabob is, then to what digg may become in the future.

Then again, you may be better off just browsing YouTube.

Sorry for being a day later than promised with this one.
Don't forget you can submit anything digg related to nodigg@gmail.com

Since When...

....is this new?

New Fake Digg tomorrow! News is oh, so slow, so I may even do 2 this week.

Firefox Review

This has nothing to do with digg but since I have to set back up a personal blog (soon) then this would be the best and only place I could put this. It's still something you'd see on digg about 3 times a day. Here's a short but totally sweet Firefox review. Enjoy.

Digg RSS Widget

This is for the Mac users, all none of you. This is an RSS Widget that gives you the headlines for Digg.com



It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and weighs in at a mere 304 KB.

Enjoy

I've Got Nothing

I'm way tired, no major updates for a little while, so until I get a breather from all my work, do take a look at the Digg Watch Weblog.

Fake Digg #1 - Stock Digg

We'll kick off the very first segment of Fake Digg with Stock Digg. Do these people have no shame? I mean, the word digg is in the URL. That aside, let's look at what stock digg is.

StockDigg is a financial website that provides investors access to major financial news as well as user-submitted stories (e.g. stock picks and analysis) and individual stock rankings by investors. With StockDigg, users rank stocks and submit stories, which are reviewed (i.e. ranked and tugg) by other investors. Only the most timely, relevant, and valuable stories go to the front page.

So, it's digg, for stocks. This is what we call "Good Idea, Damn Ugly". Peep the image below.



It looks like the most advanced tool used in making this website was a highlighter. Somehow fluorescent colours don't mix with a site like this. In fact, they don't mix with internet. Looking at this site makes my eyes burn.

But the question remains, is it any good? As I said before, it's a good idea, but as we know, Kevin Rose recently stated that digg will be going into other regions, such as politics etc. Who is to say that stock isn't a viable outlet to use when new areas of digg are unveiled? Rather than this being a stand along site, I see it as just a section of digg, if people want it separate, they can get that with their RSS feeds. As it is now, I say stay away because of the seizure inducing colours. That Barney purple colour just doesn't cut it.

Anything you want to contribute? Do it here: nodigg @ gmail . com

Announcing "Fake Digg"

Later today I will start my weekly look at those places on the interweb that are eerily similar to digg.com Yes each and every one of the sites I look at will simply be a coincidence and I can live with that, but I'm going to give the answers to the questions you're asking; Are any of them worth a damn? Are any going to overtake digg? Do they have a chance of overtaking digg? Why is there so much air in my bag of potato chips? Yes, all this and more will be answered in due course.

In the meantime, do send any and every bit of digg tidbits, interviews, rumors or imitations to nodigg at gmail dot com

Correction: Why Digg Needs MORE Moderators

ZDnet's Richard MacManus (a mac loving man from the U.S?) has done a two part interview with Kevin Rose all about, you guessed it, digg.com. It makes for an interesting read. I was pleasantly surprised to see such quotes with reference to the digg community's control over the site.

"But for the most part I'd say it's probably 95% user-driven..."

So people who whined and moaned about my XXL article about how digg.com needed moderators could just sit on it. But it gets better.

There are systems behind the scenes that notify our moderators, who are watching the site, whether there's any activity that we can detect.

So, wait, that means that there are already moderators, not so? That means I wasn't off base in what I was saying about how Digg Needs Moderators now, was I? But it gets even betterer!

"It's actually only one person who watches the site in general - it's not really that big a task because the community handles most of it."

So the general public didn't know about digg moderators, or a digg moderator for that matter, and my crackpot ideas were right on the money, but it's just a case of a good idea not properly executed. The thoughts, views and ideas in my initial article still stand since this good idea is still in effect, just not to the extent that it should be.

Interview With Kevin Rose, Part 1
Interview With Kevin Rose, Part 2

I now apologize for my longer posts and promise to keep posts to a reasonable length and colour in within the lines.

Do feel free to submit anything at all concerning digg to blog about, contact info on the right of the page.

For You Feeders

For the people using the feeds to subscribe to this blog, you really need to get out more, but in the same breath, thank you, since I now feel specialer than the kids on the different school bus. For anyone else looking to show pity upon my poor self, you can subscribe to No Digg the Blog here.
The saddest part is that we now have more subscribers than the official digg blog, which you can subscribe to here.