Bye Bye Blogrolls

Forgive me, but it’s time for me to indulge in a ‘how cool is this!?’ post. Grazr is a very nifty solution to RSS and Blogrolls in a widget. It can work from either a single RSS feed or an OPML file. Pity you can’t add or remove sub­scrip­tions on the fly, but you can’t have everything.

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Digg to Repair Holes

News voting site digg is to re-​​​​adjust its story pro­mo­tion algorithm to give less weight to votes from friends. Founder Kevin Rose writes on the digg blog:

This algorithm update will look at the unique digging diversity of the indi­viduals digging the story. Users that follow a gaming pattern will have less pro­mo­tion weight.

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347 words from digg’s Kevin Rose

Being the Elvis of Web 2.0 is a busy job, it seems. I’ve been stalking Kevin Rose of digg for about six weeks, watching him sign a girl’s chest, hit the cover of BusinessWeek and attempt to fend off attempts to hire the service’s most loyal users. And basic­ally, not getting to interview

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Reddit in the black

The news aggreg­ator site reddit has been prof­it­able since April, according to Mass High Tech. I’m very pleased for them. The site takes the digg model a little further with recom­mend­a­tions based on your voting habits. It also seems to have a somewhat quieter, maybe older user base, which leads to a dif­fer­ence in the

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