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December 27th, 2007 — Facebook, comment policy, LinkedIn, social media, Blogger.com, Pownce, smiley, trolls, censorware, sites we like, blog censorship, search engine, social news, writing, video, Technorati, Web 2.0, blogging, spam, StumbleUpon, MySpace, Digg, social bookmarking, Slashdot, Wordpress
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December 26th, 2007 — tech support, tech industry, Bury Brigade, social news, Digg, censorship, spam, Web 2.0
Things keep changing at Digg…
…and generally not for the better. Digg always seems to be adding new features, tweaking existing features, and removing old features that people liked. For instance, Digg took away both the user rankings and the data field that, for a time, allowed people to figure out who had buried some of the stories… (We know…that was NOT a feature - that was a BUG!) As far as we are concerned, those examples show how Digg merely tries to cover up problems instead of addressing its users’ biggest complaints - sluggish performance, unresponsive tech support, accusations of bias and lack of transparency, and, of course, the infamous Bury Brigade.
This past fall, Digg put in some major changes to its user interface that were obviously intended to help it compete with StumbleUpon and other social news sites. Prominent Digg user Tamar Weinberg liked Digg’s new features, but as we pointed out, the changes failed to provide the hoped-for boom in viewership. There were some irritating glitches; for instance, the new “Shout All” feature bedeviled current and former users with email spam, until Digg belatedly decided to set some limits.
What is the first thing to do when one is stuck at the bottom of a hole?
Hmmm, if your company name is Digg, that’s a tough one! Digg’s owners recently hired an investment banking firm to find a buyer for Digg. We thought that, after Digg had already alienated much of its user base, it was a bit late to be putting it up for sale. But it gets worse. According to Tamar Weinberg, as soon as Digg went up for sale, its customer support all but disappeared. They keep shooting themselves in the foot, saying “Ouch!” - and pulling the trigger again…
Rumors are flying!
On Christmas Day 2007, Mashable reported a rumor that Digg may be buying Spanish-language site Meneame, and “build-your-own-Digg” service CoRank. But later the same day, Mashable denied that Digg is the buyer for CoRank and Meneame - and they are wondering who is. This should be interesting!
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October 31st, 2007 — 1389, smiley, social news, Digg, spam, tech tips, censorship
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Has this been happening to you?
Blog admin 1389 has been getting lots of Shout notices from Digg lately…
What happens every time 1389 clicks on the link in the email?
Click the link and try it yourself!
http://digg.com/users/1389#send-shout
Why?
This can happen to anyone whose user ID was banned from Digg.
User ID 1389 was banned from Digg a long time ago…
The reason why 1389 was banned is not especially relevant here, but if you’re curious…read 1389’s comments accompanying this article: Has Digg really unbanned those banned sites? In retrospect, we also found some evidence that an unscrupulous cyberstalker/troll may have been involved in getting 1389 banned, along with some other Digg users. Suffice it to say that 1389 considers it no dishonor to be banned from Digg.
Incidentally, there has been no action to ban this blog (thus far)!
Note that, even though Digg user ID 1389 was banned, neither 1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech, nor the blog’s domain or IP address, has been banned from Digg (yet). Articles from 1389 Blog can still be submitted to, and found on, Digg. Whether the stories have any chance to to reach the front page is another matter entirely.
What actually happens when a Digg user ID is banned?
In a nutshell, the user’s profile is blocked from access, but not deleted. Other users can no longer view the blocked user’s profile page. The banned user cannot log on to submit stories, make comments, or update the profile to change the email address or anything else. On the other hand, all existing stories and comments submitted by the blocked user remain available, unless the story or comment was specifically deleted by a Digg administrator. If another Digg user had befriended this user before he or she was blocked, the blocked Digg user will continue to appear in the other user’s list of friends, like this:
So here’s why 1389 keeps getting useless messages:
- Digg requires a valid email address from all new users, so, when signing up, 1389 provided an active email address that was, and still is, being used for correspondence.
- 1389 was very active on Digg for a time, submitted many stories, entered comments, got several stories to the front page, and was befriended by a considerable number of Digg users. Thus, 1389’s avatar still appears in many places - on each story that 1389 submitted or commented on, and on the profile pages of each user who befriended 1389 during that time.
- Digg made extensive changes at the beginning of October, 2007 to add new features, including the ability to send “Shouts” to other Digg users.
- Even though 1389’s account has been blocked, other users can still send a “Shout” to 1389. For instance, whenever a Digg user sends a group “Shout” to all of his or her friends, and 1389 happens to be on that user’s list of friends, a message will be generated for 1389 along with all of the others.
- Whenever anyone does this - and it happens every day - 1389’s email inbox receives another message containing a link to retrieve the “Shout” contents from Digg.
- Unfortunately, the shout retrieval link is associated with 1389’s blocked profile, so it will not work! What’s more, 1389 cannot even update the blocked profile to shut off this useless email!
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Posted to 1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech and Fort Hard Knox.
Updated 12/25/2007
Digg has finally taken action to curtail the “shout spam” that was being spewed indiscriminately via Digg’s “Shout All” feature. Digg now limits the number of “Shout” messages to twenty at a time; more than that, and the user is told to slow down. This gives senders an incentive to pay attention to whom they are sending their messages, so as not to waste their “Shouts” on inactive Digg users.
How the Shout feature can backfire - and how to use it properly.
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October 7th, 2007 — Orlando (author), social news, Propeller, Digg, Web 2.0
The redoubtable Fort Hard Knox Blog has been receiving a lot of traffic lately from Propeller, f.k.a. “Netscape.” According to its “about” page,
Propeller.com is a service of Weblogs, Inc. and part of the AOL Network owned and operated by AOL, LLC, a Time-Warner company.
Propeller is a social bookmarking/networking site, similar to Digg.com, with some differences that we like. There are a lot more categories, and users can tag their stories, so that readers can more easily find topics of interest. If you’re wondering where some of your Digg.com friends have gone - it’s possible that they’re now on Propeller. Propeller is user-friendly, and quite interesting. Check it out! Cross-posted at:
See Fort Hard Knox Daily SitRep Archive for more useful tips! 
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October 7th, 2007 — Bury Brigade, Orlando (author), social news, Digg, censorship, Web 2.0
Digg.com’s recent changes to their website have not earned the numbers they had hoped.
In fact, according to Alexis.com Digg is down since introducing the changes and, overall, has dropped considerably since it’s high point one year ago. The graphs below show both the 1 month and 3 year charts for Digg.com
What’s wrong with Digg?
Digg is moving the decks around on the Titanic at this point. They should be commended for introducing new ideas but they have a large fundamental flaw in their system that is sending them into an iceberg of certain death — the bury button.
The bury button is the nuclear bomb on Digg that enables a small group of people to control content and censor those they deem unacceptable. Digg refuses to face this fact. Yet, users of their web site know this is inherently true. Until they get rid of the unfairness in their system, they will eventually end up in the trash heap of come and gone internet sites.
(Cross-posted from Fort Hard Knox Blog: Digg’s Changes Are A Bust)
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September 30th, 2007 — Pownce, Twitter, Facebook, Gleamd, MSM corruption, YouTube, smiley, LinkedIn, social media, StumbleUpon, Web 2.0, tech tips, social bookmarking, social news, Digg, blogging
“What are social media, anyway?”
For your surfing pleasure:
Vaspers the Grate, a/k/a Steven Edward Streight, offers a quick guided tour of Web 2.0:
How to Succeed in Social Networks 
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August 21st, 2007 — feeds, social news, search engine, tech tips, Technorati, blogging, Web 2.0, Internet
“Ping? What are you talking about? Sonar? Golf clubs? A duck in a children’s book?“
Guess again!
In the world of the Internet, ping has two meanings:
- For everyone, ping is a simple test to see whether your computer can connect to a host.
- Story of Ping, written by its creator, Mike Muuss
- Accessing ping from Windows XP: Click the Start button, click Run, enter cmd to get to a command window, and then enter ping host_url or ping ip_address.
- Just Ping is an online web-based ping utility.
- Example of how ping is used: A service tech enters ping yahoo.com in a command window. If the connection is up, it’ll come back with Yahoo’s IP address and the time it took to get a response. If the ping fails, the service tech enters ping 216.109.112.135 (Yahoo’s IP address). If the second ping succeeds, there’s a problem connecting with the domain name system; if not, there is a problem connecting to Yahoo.
- For bloggers, ping is a signal that you have changed something. You’ve updated something on your site. Now you need to tell the rest of the world that there’s something new for them to retrieve.
The second meaning of ping is what you need to do whenever you blog.
“But why? Don’t those search engine crawlers go out and get every blog on the planet?”
Some search engines, such as Google, do work that way. Trouble is, they take their time getting to you. If you aren’t already on a link path from another site that they’ve been crawling just now, it may be awhile before they run across your site.
Other search engines, aggregators, blog catalogs, and social websites are user driven. They rely on bloggers to send them a ping whenever there’s new blog content. That’s their cue to go fetch whatever new material is there and save or index it accordingly.
“So how do I issue a ping?”
You issue a ping by sending a message to a ping server that identifies your blog’s URL. The ping does not send any information about the updates you have made to your blog. Instead, the ping server tells the appropriate search engine(s) to go to your blog URL to retrieve that information.
Some blogging systems or blog post editors can be set up to issue pings automatically. Alternatively, you can go to the ping server’s website through your browser. You’ll be presented with a simple form to fill out with your blog URL and sometimes also the blog’s name. The ping is issued when you click on the button to submit the form.
Wikipedia’s Ping_blog article has a long list of ping servers that bloggers may want to use. This list may be somewhat overwhelming, and is not entirely up to date, so here’s a shorter list of sites that you will definitely want to consider using after you update your blog:
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August 15th, 2007 — MSM corruption, American South, counterjihad, e-jihadis, Islam, al Qaeda, smiley, Foehammer's Anvil, Wired.com, Florida, wikis, censorship, social news, hate, anti-Semitism, social media, Web 2.0
Read the fascinating details of this story, and ask yourself why the media has shown little interest in following up and bringing them to you:
The news media should be keeping an eye on incidents like these, but they’re not. Instead, they’re helping to make sure everybody stays asleep. 
If you think the media has been doing its job in keeping us informed about terrorism-related evidence and events, you’re completely mistaken.
Read and watch this: Radioactivity at Jersey City? Conflicting reports
(stein hoist to Noisy Room). 
By the way, if you live anywhere near Jersey City, it’s up to you to demand some answers as to who has been telling the media to keep us in the dark about a vital matter such as this!
Since the news media and the governmental authorities aren’t properly keeping track of these incidents and informing us so that we can use this information to safeguard our families and communities, it looks as though we’ll have to start doing that ourselves.
I blogged about that quite recently; see Why we need a public-access database for tracking small-scale disasters and unusual events. I’m waiting for your suggestions!
Michelle Malkin’s article tells us that the SC pipe-bomb duo had, until recently, been using Web 2.0 social venues to network. How interesting! You can be sure that they aren’t the only ones taking advantage of the Web for that purpose. E-jihadists, and those who aid and abet them, are all over the web. So are courageous, diligent, and loyal citizens who are ferreting them out and reporting them.
Just for starters: 
This is where you come in! 
You, with your helpful eyes and ears, and with your cognitive abilities and your common sense to help you to connect the dots! Put those to work whenever you explore Web 2.0 social venues. If you see something, say something. Blog about it, comment about it, and notify the authorities. Also notify the owner of the web venue and everyone who should be aware. Above all, keep watching to make sure that appropriate action is taken!
Update: Keep these links at hand for the next time you spot a Wikipedia spin job - whether it’s e-jihadist or anything else:
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