SEOs Claim Digg Auto-Buries Stories
The running feud between the SEO community and the Digg news site heated up again, with accusation of Digg automatically burying certain stories.
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Smoldering embers have ignited another blaze of controversy around Digg and its treatment of SEO websites. Last time, it was Lee Odden dealing with his domain being banned from Digg, as were other SEO sites.
Now the context of the game has shifted, as Neil Patel accused Digg of burying stories internally. He may have found the proverbial smoking gun this time.
"We all know that the main reason why stories don't hit the Digg homepage is because they get buried," Patel said. "Well last week we did a test on Pronet Advertising that shows Digg might be burying stories internally."
A story they submitted as a test was buried after about 20 Diggs. Patel has a link to a document showing 10,000 buries made by Digg users for that day. None of them appear to have buried the story, and our search for the story in the list of buries didn't turn up Patel's test.
According to Patel, the last referrer to the story's page came from crawl3.digg.internal. Then the story was buried. This seems to indicate the bury happened internally, either by a Digg insider or through an algorithmic test.
Reaction from the SEO community was predictably critical of Digg. Andy Hagans at Tropical SEO saw a couple of his stories apparently receive the same treatment recently.
"It appears from the evidence that the Digg staff are big fat hairy liars," he said of his experience and Patel's findings.
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Microsoft-Xandros Patent Pact Deja Vu
Security consultant's blog found pushing crudware
A prominent IT security consultant has issued a mea culpa after learning a blog he set up on Blogspot and later abandoned was being used to push crudware.
"If I'm supposed to know what I'm doing, what about the 299 million people out there who don't know better?" said Winn Schwartau, an expert in information warfare and computer security education, when asked why his old security blog, SecurityAwareness, was trying to trick visitors into installing crudware called Malware Alarm. "I'd rather cop to it and say I got nailed. We all screw up."
The incident is a cautionary tale for anyone who has ever kept a blog or website and then decided to pull the plug. Schwartau had ditched the Blogspot address for a new URL that was linked to the website of The Security Awareness Company, a business he runs.
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Blog says 'Do Not Fly Spirit Airlines'
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June 16, 1884: Roller Coasters -- A Technology With Plenty of Ups and Downs
1884: The first gravity roller coaster designed and built specifically as an amusement ride opens at Coney Island, New York. It is a commercial success and leads to the building of roller coasters all over the world.
LaMarcus Adna Thompson's Coney Island coaster, which, for a nickel ($1.10 in today's money), hurtled passengers down an undulating 600-foot-long track at speeds of up to a blistering 6 mph, would hardly be recognizable to riders of modern-day roller coasters.
Passengers faced sideways, for one thing, and the track was not laid out in a continuous loop. Like the switchback gravity railway used by Pennsylvania coal miners that inspired it, the Coney Island coaster ran point-to-point, with nothing but gravity to provide the propulsion.
The ride began atop a 50-foot-high platform, and when it reached the other end, passengers had to disembark so the cars could be switched over to the return track for the ride back to the starting point.
From Thompson's Coney Island coaster, the technology quickly evolved. Within a year, the original tracks were replaced by an oval course that allowed riders to remain seated from start to finish. The seats on this new coaster, which was known as the Serpentine Railway, faced forward in what became the standard configuration for roller coaster cars the world over.
Thompson reportedly developed his idea from the Mauch Chunk switchback gravity railroad in Pennsylvania, a coal-hauling device that, in 1827, was used to provide thrill rides to the locals when not in use to deliver coal to the town of Mauch Chunk (since renamed Jim Thorpe).
But the origins of the roller coaster go back much further, to 17th-century Russia. The earliest coasters were actually slides, carved from specially constructed ice hills outside St. Petersburg. The first man-made coaster using structural support is believed to have been built on the orders of Catherine the Great in that city's Gardens of Oreinbaum.
Roller coasters were built in other European countries as well, before catching on in the United States.
What we think of as the modern roller coaster appeared soon after Thompson's success at Coney Island. Because entrepreneurs were scrambling to make money, there was a lot of experimentation. and a lot of these rides were just flat-out dangerous.
The classic coaster was built on a wooden frame (and was referred to as a "woodie" in the business). Since all coasters rely on gravity to gain and maintain speed, track layout became all-important. The cars themselves make the initial ascent using a pulley-operated chain.
The world-famous Matterhorn bobsleds at Disneyland, which opened in 1959 almost 75 years to the day after Thompson's coaster, became the first roller coaster to use tubular steel track. This innovation allows designers to incorporate maneuvers like loops and corkscrews into the course.
The Scenic Railway in Melbourne, Australia's Luna Park, built in 1912, is currently the oldest operating roller coaster in the world.
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NASA Cassini Significant Events for
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Microsoft rolled out the second beta of its upcoming Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, Wednesday. When finalized, IE8 will be the first new version of the browser the software maker has released since 2006. While the browser looks much the same, Microsoft has been tinkering under the hood to bring IE users new features and functionality.
iGaymer.com Launches Online Community for Gay Geeks
Manhattan Interactive Media Designer Steve "StevieSpin" Lunny Carves Out a New Niche. (PRWeb Sep 4, 2008)
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Boingo Mobile Wi-Fi Available on Select Sony Ericsson Phones
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Advertising group opposes Yahoo-Google pact (AP)
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The Last Remnant Gets Pre-order Content
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K12Linux Founders Hand off Project to the Fedora Community
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Bummer: Web mixtape service Mixwit to shut down
Mixwit, one of my personal favorites for creating and sharing hosted mix tapes, is calling it quits next week. Starting December 27, the site will no longer serve up streaming music tracks, with embedded mixes--like the one at the end of this post. (Read on Source)
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