This morning I had coffee with Pete Prestipino. Here’s a picture of him and his wife.
Category: Blogging
Blogging, Blog, Blogger, New Media, Social Media
Technorati Oddity
I got a new link from a “new blog” this morning. The only problem is that it’s one blog post that part of another blog that links to me already, SEO by the Sea. Here’s a screen shot in case it vaporizes:
This is kind of strange. What is going on here?
Maybe Major Media Should Actually Research How Digg Works
Probably like you most of you, I’m getting tired of the major media writing stories about social media that are completely inaccurate and not fully researched. They spread inaccurate information that is often the first impression for many people. In recent “The Wizards of Buzz” WSJ article, Jamin Warren and John Jurgensen wrote the following:
- “On the other side of this battle are companies like User/Submitter.com. The site promises to pay users “easy money” for “digging,” or voting on, links on Digg.com. Its offer is simple: Pay User/Submitter $1 for every “digg,” or vote, you request and in turn it’ll pay a user. Users can earn 50 cents for every three “diggs,” and User/Submitter pockets the difference. At any given time, a top submission on Digg has anywhere from 800 to 3,000 votes, meaning a successful campaign could cost thousands of dollars.”
While I don’t know anything about User/Submitter.com (nor do I want to for obvious reasons) – I do know this statement from the article shows a clear lack of understanding of how Digg actually works. I got a bright idea, why don’t reporters like Jamin and John actually sign up, log in and use the system for a while before writing stories like this? It’s a good question.
If they had, they would understand that for a story to make the front page, it usually takes between 25-60 Diggs depending on various factors (time of day, amount of activity that day, etc). Once a story is on the front page, the now Dugg content organically gets tons of Diggs as it migrates from the top of the home page. So, even if someone did manage to page $1 per Digg, it would not cost thousands of dollars.
You might want to e-mail the reporters that wrote this story in the link above and ask them to do actual research by using social media before writing their next story. The gap between major media and social media might become smaller if they did.
Jason Calacanis Accepts Neil Patel’s SEO Challenge
After Danny Sullivan ranted, others checked in, and Neil raved, Jason finally caved in and said, OK, prove it.
This will certainly be fun to watch!
Seattle Bubble – A Great Blog
The metrics, facts and figures that this blog invents (some of which look quite time consuming!) never cease to amaze me.)
I hope to one day soon be provided with this type of data about some topics I think are fascinating.