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April 3rd, 2008 • SMO

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Feedburner: The Easiest Way To Manage A Digg Campaign

May 30th, 2007 • SMO, digg

I hadn't checked in to my account at feedburner.com for some time and imagine my surprise when I noticed a new feature that allows you to syndicate your Digg.com account's activity (or alternately a frequent poster's activity who you wish to bury). Under the 'optimize' tab there is a link splicer option. Link splicer allows you add your recently bookmarked sites from your del.icio.us, furl, bloglines, and Digg.com accounts.



All you need to do is add in the digg user's account name who you wish to promote/bury and instantly you have a way to send daily email to your feed's subscribers. Let the Ron Paul spam ensue. Feel free to bury the articles I digg by subscribing to my feed

10 Political Sites That Violate Digg's TOS

May 21st, 2007 • 15 comments Politics, SMO, digg
Tags: astrotu, astroturfing, digg, libertarian diggers, ron paul, sockpuppets, spam

Digg.com's inclusion of a politics section has given many political sites a springboard to attract a larger audience. For some of these groups the temptation to promote their political advocacy has proven too strong to stop them from violating Digg's terms of service. The websites listed in this article appear to have crossed the line to varying degrees. Article 3 Section 9 in Digg's Terms of Service:

By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services: 9. with the intention of artificially inflating or altering the 'digg count', blog count, comments, or any other Digg service, including by way of creating separate user accounts for the purpose of artificially altering Digg's services; giving or receiving money or other remuneration in exchange for votes; or participating in any other organized effort that in any way artificially alters the results of Digg's services.

1. www.freecentury.com

In an effort to make sure that Ron Paul has a permanent place in Digg's recent front page articles for a long time to come, we are launching the 100,000 Diggs for Ron Paul campaign. The purpose is easily explained. We Ron Paul supporters want to get his message out to people who are not too familiar with him, and what he stands for. With the mainstream media ignoring the coming tsunami of Ron Paul support, many people might not hear about Dr. Paul until it is too late. Digg this article and have everyone you know Digg it too.

2. Mises Institute

   I previously explained about Digg.com and how their recent addition of non-technology topics (e.g. Politics, Business & Finance) has opened an opportunity for pro-market/pro-liberty articles to get an airing at this very popular news site. Stories are "promoted" to the Digg.com front page by "digging" (voting) for a story. To coordinate efforts to promote free market and libertarian articles I have started a list of libertarian diggers. As I write this I already have 45 people on it. We have once again this morning been successful in promoting an article. In this case, today's Mises.org Daily Article on inflation and the Fed. Head over to Digg and join the heated discussion about the article, (you will need to set up a free account). If you want to join our merry band of libertarian diggers, here are the details... E-mail me and send me your Digg Username (you login to Digg with this). I will add you to my list of Friends which is serving as our list of libertarian diggers.

3. The Ron Paul Report

   4/16/07 Ron Paul Daily Digg Read and Digg these articles

4. http://www.freetalklive.com/

   Digg FTL Digg.com is one of the most popular websites on the Internet. With your help, we can advance in their podcast rankings. Please click the button on the left to digg Free Talk Live. If you don't have one, you will need to create a free account. Remember, you need to come back every two weeks and digg something else on the site like one of our episodes to continue locking in your digg for the podcast. digg.freetalklive.com -Direct link to the Free Talk Live page on digg.com news.freetalklive.com - Join the Free Market Diggers and help digg pro-Liberty articles on digg.com!

5. Ron Paul Grass Roots Action

   Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the RonPaulGrassRootsAction group. File : /Digg tips Uploaded by : tangent4ronpaul Description : Using and networking on Digg for Ron Paul You can access this file at the URL

6. No Governor Anywhere: FreeMarket, Libertarian Minded Blogging

   Ten ways to help Ron Paul online. We have to face it, the internet is currently the only place we can get the word out about Ron Paul. 5. Digg.com: Go register at digg.com and do a search for Ron Paul. We have a double task here. First, read through the articles before you digg them. If you notice something posted twice, only digg the one that has the most so far, and bury the other. This way, people on digg won't become burnt out by The Ron paul campaign. We can't be called spammers if we only post one article about a certain topic, and if everyone is digging the same articles, the likelihood that story being on the front page, with the most exposure, increases.

7. Armitage 2.0

   "Digg Ron Paul sites, stories, videos, and other links."

8. World Affairs Board

   For those who want to help make sure Dr. Paul's message gets out... Here's the most effective and easy way I know: - Visit Digg / News - Keyword search "Ron Paul" - Then "digg" every story that has the word Ron Paul in the headline. That's it! This gets him additional attention; I've seen it work very well before. It's already working for Dr. Paul. Usually there are around 25 Ron Paul stories on Digg every day. I Digg them about three times a day. What are your thoughts about this approach and about Ron Paul?

9. Ron Paul Press Hub

   Sunday, May 13th, 2007 Please digg the following article. If you don't know what Digg is, read here

10. disinter "digging up the truth"

    For a brief comparison of Hagel vs Paul votes, go here. Digg the comparison here.

    note: this is one of many articles intended to encourage diggers to promote Ron Paul

UPDATE I found a few more: Daily Paul

10 Ways to help Ron Paul Every Day Without Leaving Your Computer Posted April 2nd, 2007 by manystrom in * Ron Paul 1. Go to digg.com and 'digg'all of the stories about Ron Paul (also 'digg' stories about him on other sites such as www.RonPaul2008.com and LewRockwell.com etc by simply clicking the 'digg' button that is on most stories now). Making positive comment on those stories is a big help too. Also see reddit.com

BivingsReport Explains to readers how to resubmit a Ron Paul article by adding a # anchor to the end of the url. Other sites of interest: http://www.searchronpaul.com/

There was nothing wrong with Digg.com

September 7th, 2006 • SMO, digg
Tags: controversy, digg, jay adelson, kevin rose, userbase

I woke up this morning to the shit storm brewing at digg.com like the rest of you. I however might have a somewhat unique perspective that I'd like to share. My digg.com account name is elebrio. To date I have had 16 stories promoted to the front page. You can view them here: http://digg.com/users/elebrio/homepage If you pay enough attention you will notice that although my account was created in November of 2005, I didn't really start submitting stories until exactly 16 days ago. Thats right, as a neophyte I have gotten an average of 1 story promoted to the front page per day for the last 16 days. My account is proof that it isn't impossible to break through the (non-existent) monopoly of the top users. How did I do it? 1. Activity. If you comment on and submit stories actively you will get more people to check out both your profile and submissions. Increasing your chances that others will digg your stories. I comment on many stories. Being the first commenter doesn't hurt either as you automatically get top billing. 2. Write interesting blurbs. If you only have 3 or 4 sentences to get people to digg your stories, then you better not be boring or people will just scan over it. This is where p9 gets kudos from me. He writes up the best synopsises(?) hands down. Thats why he was the top user. 3. Digg & Comment on your friends stories. If you digg your friends stories and comment on them, they are more likely to check out the stories that you submit. That's it! I'm seriously disappointed that Kevin and Jay decided to change things up instead of just let the free market run it's course. Obviously there are some groups that needed to be weeded out - like the libertarian diggers. They were clearly gaming the system, but the fact that their decision lost them p9s50W5k4GUD2c6 shows how easily they will piss away their userbase. Their arrogance when dealing with the netscape controversy doesn't make me want to submit stories to their site so they can get rich and talk down to me like they did p9s50W5k4GUD2c6.

the digg controversy

September 3rd, 2006 • SMO, digg

The latest rants about how Digg has become an unfair system. Stats from duggtrends reveal that more stories are being buried than before the top users left. My own weeks history shows very little change from the norm. The obligatory story over at Wired. A chat room for you to sound off. Digg.com userbase accused of illegal left-wing vigilantism. Digg now runs on your DS, your phone or pda