Comments on: Kevin Rose Hands Over Digg Control

By: Is Digg Out of Control? After Giving In, Can Kevin Ever Regain Control? | Tips Dr.com

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:06:58 +0000

[...] Indeed, what does this say about Digg?s future? Will it be able to raise more funding, find new advertisers, or get acquired, now that it has been exposed as, not a company run by some smart entrepreneurs, but a living, breathing social network that is run by its members. Source: Kevin Rose Hands Over Digg Control [...]

By: At Digg, The Inmates Now Run The Asylum | TheVanBlog

At Digg, The Inmates Now Run The Asylum | TheVanBlog — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:04:21 +0000

[...] Beal is right when he said Kevin Rose had a difficult decision to make, though in the end Kevin handed over control of Digg to the community. Andy sees many possible outcomes and mentions [...]

By: Has Digg Dugg itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s own Grave? Questions for Kevin Rose | Search Engine Optimization India

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:40:04 +0000

[...] Update: Some good and lengthier discussion of the recent Digg phenomena comes from bloggers Mark BlairÃ‚Â of SMOBlog and Andy BealÃ‚Â of Marketing Pilgrim. [...]

By: Seo Mumbai » Has Digg Dugg itâ€™s own Grave? Questions for Kevin Rose

Seo Mumbai » Has Digg Dugg itâ€™s own Grave? Questions for Kevin Rose — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:04:25 +0000

[...] Update: Some good and lengthier discussion of the recent Digg phenomena comes from bloggers Mark BlairÂ of SMOBlog and Andy BealÂ of Marketing Pilgrim. [...]

By: Digg is Sending Lowest Referral Traffic in 1.5 Years-- Search Engine Optimization

Tue, 15 May 2007 01:53:16 +0000

[...] My best guess is that the HD-DVD fiasco had a negative impact on Digg’s regular readers. As noted in this Reddit thread, a gaggle of some size moved to that site, while some other posts suggest that general site abandonment over the issue was rampant. This doesn’t put any kind of nail in the coffin, but it’s more evidence that Digg has lost some of its traffic. [...]

By: Clickfire Blog » Has Digg Dugg it’s own Grave? Questions for Kevin Rose

Thu, 10 May 2007 04:52:42 +0000

[...] Update: Some good and lengthier discussion of the recent Digg phenomena comes from bloggers Mark BlairÂ of SMOBlog and Andy BealÂ of Marketing Pilgrim. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: mblair

mblair — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:14:16 +0000

I expect a few subtle changes to the feature down the road now that Kevin Rose has pretty much had his whole site buried for an evening.

By: Mayday, mayday! The tale of Diggâ€™s perfect storm and the pirate captain Kevin Rose

Thu, 03 May 2007 04:36:36 +0000

[...] Andy Beal ponders about where things will go from here. I think that the community will become even more loyal to Digg. Kevin Rose has his street cred back, but I think that he’s going to try to implement some “new features” to try to make this kind of mutiny much harder to pull off. [...]

By: At Digg, The Inmates Now Run The Asylum - TheVanBlog

At Digg, The Inmates Now Run The Asylum - TheVanBlog — Thu, 03 May 2007 04:28:43 +0000

[...] This event is a significant moment in the life of Digg, though it’s still a little early to know what that significance will be. Andy Beal is right when he said Kevin Rose had a difficult decision to make, though in the end Kevin handed over control of Digg to the community. Andy sees many possible outcomes and mentions three. [...]

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:06:43 +0000

Rose should have sold while he could – he’s just revealed that the company has no assets. After all, if you can’t control your own site… what do you have? The second Rose does something people don’t like, they whine. Keep it up and they’ll leave. A social platform is trivial to create – the community is all… and if they are fickle and will revolt at the drop of a hat, you don’t have them.

As for cries of censorship, all of these people whining about Rose censoring them are free to post it… on their site.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 May 2007 22:33:16 +0000

It is important to note that not all diggers reacted with the same teenage basement mutiny mentality:
http://www.paydayloanaffiliate.com/blog/DiggersVsDigg.aspx

By: AnvÃ¤ndarrevolt pÃ¥ Digg - missa inte | OOZ Webb 2.0 och Teknik - Stefan Svensson

Wed, 02 May 2007 19:32:51 +0000

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By: Stephen Ward

Stephen Ward — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:02:09 +0000

“…and the little people would realize they owned Digg.”

Ah, the democratic process at its purest, when the citizens realize they have control of the government and exercise that control. It kind of makes me wonder how many problems could be solved (or caused) if more Americans voted.

Seriously, though, I wouldn’t worry about seeing too much of this “management en masse” in the future. After all, if politics is any indication, it can be pretty hard to motivate a lot of people to action. In this case, it must’ve just hit a nerve.

By: Ding Dong Digg is Dead | SoloSEO Blog

Ding Dong Digg is Dead | SoloSEO Blog — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:48:43 +0000

[...] There have been many discussions over the recent problems at Digg, Andy of Marketing Pilgrim, Muhammad of Pronet, and Michael of Wolf-Holf have all commented. I have made my less than glowing opinion of Digg known in a previous post. In gerneral, I don’t find the articles typically found on the front page of Digg to be of any particular use to anyone over the age of 20, or with interests outside video games and the latest hack. There are some which claim the traffic Diggers can drive to your site is worth pandering to the Digg clique, but I have never agreed. The traffice is short-lived, and Diggers don’t buy. [...]

By: Is Digg Out of Control? After Giving In, Can Kevin Ever Regain Control?

Is Digg Out of Control? After Giving In, Can Kevin Ever Regain Control? — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:28:48 +0000

[...] Indeed, what does this say about Diggâ€™s future? Will it be able to raise more funding, find new advertisers, or get acquired, now that it has been exposed as, not a company run by some smart entrepreneurs, but a living, breathing social network that is run by its members. Source: Kevin Rose Hands Over Digg Control [...]

By: vanr23

vanr23 — Wed, 02 May 2007 15:12:22 +0000

It also demonstrates the stupidity of trying to censor an integer.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:49:32 +0000

@HMTKSteve – good point. Before could have at least claimed it was submitted by someone external. That defense is gone.

By: SEOrefugee

SEOrefugee — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:45:33 +0000

The winds have changed today. Digg is now one big happy place again. All Kevin had to do was say he was sorry. Nevermind the fact that he made the decision to censor in the first place. People are once again praising him despite the fact that he has obviously forgotten where he came from (podcasts on hacking stuff). His “Digg On” post is at the top of the site and has over 17,000 diggs now. That’s sure a quick turnaround time for such an angry revolt that people supposedly cared so much about.

By: Why The Digg Revolt Really Doesn’t Surprise Me

Why The Digg Revolt Really Doesn’t Surprise Me — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:36:16 +0000

[...] Digg users act like a mob of screaming children everywhere else on the Internet… why wouldn’t they turn on the hand that feeds them and attack Digg itself? As some have pointed out, by backing down, Kevin Rose and company have set a bad precedent and all but told this mob that they – not the management – are running the site. The revolt succeeded not only in that the code was allowed back on the site, but also in that it put the people behind Digg in their place. [...]

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:32:11 +0000

It is very interesting that Kevin chose to use the code as the title of his blog entry. By doing so he posted the code directly to Digg’s servers as a company man!

That one act may have launched the Digg ship out of it’s safe harbor.