Comments on Eyeball Economy: Immunity or Community?

As far as I know, it's not really possible to engi...

2008-08-09T13:17:55.045-04:00

As far as I know, it's not really possible to engineer a Digg front-page placement just by soliciting your friends. Maybe a few people can... but isn't part of the Digg algorithm set up to discount the people you are friends with from counting as much in the determination as to whether you go front-page?

David, you're assuming that people actually view the blog in order to vote it... what if it's a totally new blog by an unknown writer with no social networking connections? You're also assuming that newly Dugg posts by an unknown would be seen by anybody on Digg...

I think with the current signal:noise problem, this is much like real life- the people with the loudest voices and already big distribution channels have an unfair advantage against the newbie.

Barriers to entry in social media require seeding- much the way that people do guerrilla/clever/self-promotional PR offline.

It's inertia- if you have zero momentum, you have to give it a push.

David - I’m with you on this one. Social media si...

2008-08-09T01:44:33.326-04:00

David - I’m with you on this one. Social media sites like Digg/Stumble Upon can literally transform an obscure blog post into a major media story overnight. So, I couldn't agree more that results should be achieved organically and not contrived by open solicitation of your peers/colleagues. Content should speak for itself - empower users, then let it fly.

From my company's perspective, we enable content t...

2008-08-08T23:37:11.892-04:00

From my company's perspective, we enable content to get to these sites by placing the buttons on every release. Adding the releases to the sites themselves would get us banned, like it has some of our competitors. Though it's not PC to say, we're enablers. It's not social media if you do it yourself...

Great post. I have been thinking about this very t...

2008-08-08T23:12:15.265-04:00

Great post. I have been thinking about this very thing lately and I came to the conclusion that it would just be wrong. Self promotion in this manner is a total misuse of the services.

By placing the correct links around my content for sharing/stumbling/digging, I have already provided the tools for promotion. If people don't decide to use those tools, maybe my content just wasn't all that good :)

Some excellent summary here. However, I also respe...

2008-08-08T23:06:05.852-04:00

Some excellent summary here. However, I also respectfully disagree on posting ones company blog etc to Digg et al.

That will happen. We all know it will.

It's OK; the crowd will decide if it isn't OK. that's the point I thunk.

Brian,Thanks for stopping by. I understand the pla...

2008-08-08T23:03:00.639-04:00

Brian,

Thanks for stopping by. I understand the place for requesting feedback, but open solicitation is completely different. Imagine if this was a corporation or brand doing it ... I just think that what's good for the goose should be good for the gander.

I don't need to ask you to digg or stumble my post by tweeting or friendfeeding it ... I already asked by ENABLING that functionality on my blog...

DW

Great post. I like the division of social media, ...

2008-08-08T22:50:42.264-04:00

Great post. I like the division of social media, bookmarking, and networking.

I respectfully disagree about tweeting about blog posts, or sharing/asking for diggs.

My favorite thing about the internet is its empowerment of nobodies to be heard, and if no one know about your blog or blog post, it cannot be dugg... you have to do some seed promotion for the community to know about it so it has a chance to choose or reject it.