Morrie the Toupee Salesman

After some messing around, I’ve automated my weekly “top digg unpromoted stories” seen below. Which means that I’ll be automatically generating these every Tuesday morning. This week again brings a big outlier, the “Website is Down” video that got lots of play everywhere on the web last week.
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1322:jrwjrw: The Website Is Down
262:zaibatsu: Unexplained UFOs Hit Plane and Attacks Helicopter [PICS]
253:TheEngineer2008: Bob Barr For President: Digg4Barr
248:davidhallstrom: Being Politically Correct Has Gone Too Far
225:bobbarr2008: One of Supreme Court’s Most Important Rulings for Liberty
222:jaybol: Ian Usher is Selling His Life: House, Car, Friends and Job
219:Boozecoma: The Blueprint For Beer Blogs. A Must Read!
209:MakiMaki: On FISA: […]

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On the other side of things, this morning brings a leak of digg’s recommender. It looks very nice, but my first impression was “that’s some leak.”
I forgot my disclaimer on the last post.

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Sad to see my former company included in that list. Right next to technorati, which Kevin Rose once called a “dead site.” I actually remember thinking right then, that we were screwed. Arrogance is usually the first sign.

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Usually I’d do my top 10 not promoted stories on digg last week on Mondays, but today I noticed that the top not-promoted story has a crazy amount of diggs and comments, so I’m just going to link to that (933 diggs):
Least I Could Do - New Animated Short[NSFW]. (And for those who read my […]

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I’ve got to take it as a good omen that on the day I received a really nice job offer (I’ll be starting July 7) my old boss talks about my new boss.
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I’ve received some complaints about my remarks on digg here. My first impulse to these comments is to bring out Sarah Lacy’s book, share some of my favorite quotes, interspersed with maniacal laughing and random outbursts beginning with “They actually had the nerve…” While I would love to talk more openly, the company has suggested […]

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As posted a while back, this is again, last week’s most popular unpromoted stories. Msaleem takes his customary spot at the top.
304: Essential Tips and Techniques for Food Photography
280: Hollywood is a very small town
270: Captain America Casting Scoop! Marvel Wants A Titanic Star
265: 6 Ex-Conflict Countries Worth Visiting
262: WWDC 2008 Keynote - Live […]

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I’m surprised all the pundits and “social media consultants” out there haven’t discovered this one, or maybe they want to keep it to themselves, or maybe there’s just no money in it, but there seems to be a very clear way to increase your odds of appearing on the digg front page.
The stats below […]

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This is a sum total of diggs on stories not promoted grouped by userid. In a sense, it’s “most penalized” users. Data is a random(-ish) sample from the last month:
SirPopper 5659
msaleem 5262
KevinFederline 4490
badwithcomputer 3536
MrBabyMan 3480
mark076h 2716
jaybol 2473
oboy 2462
mklopez 2267
MakiMaki 2164
No real attempt at a methodology here, and I could just have easily […]

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