Morrie the Toupee Salesman

I’ve talked about Organizational Theory in the past, but today inspired by the launch of PleaseDressMe.com, I want to talk about titles. Calling Joe Stump “Lead Architect” of digg, as a lot of articles have, is quite frankly, a joke. Joe is a great guy, but while I was at digg, his primary contribution to [...]

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As I’ve said before, one the shocking things I found about California, is how many people there are saying really, really stupid stuff (and often getting paid for it). Case in point is a post on some random blog by Muhammed Saleem about something called the “Pownce Effect.” Its part of the leadup to some [...]

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I had a minor traffic spike yesterday, unusual since I haven’t posted much lately. I assume it’s because some people out there wanted to see if I had an opinion on the latest digg rumor and the latest Jay Adelson denial of that rumor. On the denial, shouldn’t MS or Google people be denying it? [...]

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Here. I can honestly say “I did that.” Picked the license, got approval from our lawyers, changed the copyright notice. I remember feeling a bit subversive at the time. I told people over and over – public domain – public domain – just so I wouldn’t get the blame later if there was blame to [...]

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I’ve been creating a database of digg press – and thought I would share some tidbits. This article in the Guardian just brought me to a complete stop. Not because of the usual overblown hype, but because of the grade-school like prose. From the baffling headline “Digg, Kevin Rose” the article just goes downhill, eventually [...]

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A site called officesnapshots.com uses some of my photos of the digg office under construction. Make sure to read the little blurb at the bottom!

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An interview with Jay in the Telegraph. Notable things: Digg was founded in 2003. Wow. Digg needs that PR person now. Story got no traction on techmeme. Here, gone. The blogosphere’s interest in digg is at an all time low.

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Just so my 3 non-lawyer readers out there know – my plan on talking about digg has changed slightly. I’ve picked up some invisible editors, so I decided that it would be better to write the whole thing at once and then let them see it, rather than have me (and the idea) die a [...]

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An old link I came across while going through old emails. “Seems to have found an interesting niche.”

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One of the greatest regrets I’m left with from my digg experience was that I could not blog about it. Anyway since I’ve left digg, greatly enhancing my ability to talk about the experience, I’ve decided to try an experiment. 3 years ago today, digg was just barely launched. What I thought I’d do is [...]

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