"I wrote about this a long time ago: Digg's downfall is going to be their user interface: That's why the IM epidemic started. http://www.digidave.org/advent... ..." - David Cohn
I got two calls today about this: One from a reporter at Wired, another a good digg friend of mine. If I had more time it would be a blog post of my own, but alas. I'm somewhat neutral towards the recent bannings, although I am upset that some of them are my friends. - David Cohn
I myself never got into plurk, something about the U.I. was hard to scan what was happening. - David Cohn
lol Hao :) It's working now, though my ping post hasn't showed up yet. I like Plurk - it's a different flavour of microblog and I like the ppl there. - WorldofHiglet
I dropped off a few weeks ago- seems that everyone I know goes through the same enthusiasm curve, if they do end up getting into it - anna awesomesauce
plurk meh, no one does it cept faboomama ;) - adolfo foronda
My buddy Cyrus asked me some questions about the Steve Jobs citizen journalsim curfuffle. I could write a bit more - but somewhat distracted on building spot.us. Always nice that people think of me when citizen journalism comes up though. - David Cohn
I gotta agree with my friend Pat Thorton: This was ALL about pageviews for Silicon Alley. A lot of things happen for pageviews - so let's stop beating around the bush and call a spade a spade. S.I. got greedy. - David Cohn
"AS THE financial crisis pushes the economy back to the top of voters’ concerns, Barack Obama is starting to open up a clear lead over John McCain in the opinion polls. But among those who study economics for a living, Mr Obama’s lead is much more commanding. A survey of academic economists by The Economist finds the majority—at times by overwhelming margins—believe Mr Obama has the superior economic plan, a firmer grasp of economics and will appoint better economic advisers." - Kevin Hessel
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"Fact is: I think Gawker media has a high turn-over rate - I think that's Denton's secret.
Hire new blogger - starry-eyed and eager.
Work them to death
Fire them - let them fend for themselves having trained them in how to do gossip.
Hire new blogger.
Rinse and repeat." - David Cohn
"Actually - just to play devil's advocate - FamilyGuyFan deserved to get banned.... for reasons I won't go into detail about. I'm not surprised there. But - I'm also not a fan of ALL the bannings. But who knows - this one, I believe, was deserved - maybe the others are too?" - David Cohn
"I've noticed that the number of people who digg my stuff has significantly decreased - despite my best effort only to submit the highest quality stuff. I assume this is because. (a. less people around all the time. (or at least - the people who traditionally were active aren't around as much). (b. people are digging less - afraid they will get banned (I don't use scripts, but even I'm starting to get nervous about randomly being banned). I wonder if the algorithm will change as well to loosen up a bit in response to less digging?" - David Cohn
Rumors of a Steve Job Heart Attack cause all kinds of crazy things to happen. It was a fake though - leading to questions about citizen journalism. - David Cohn
"This is hands down the best video I've ever seen explaining what the hell is going on. It's a bit scary what I learned - but at least I don't feel 100% ignorant." - David Cohn
SUMMARY: The debt crisis is going to create a domino-like collapse of our industry in the next six months. Who will be the first to go? And who might emerge controlling the American newspaper business? - David Cohn
