Digg.com, who ended up with 1% of the total US online market, by letting their readers choose what content floated to the top, has gone out of business because it’s audience of geeks turned on it when it censored one of the most popular choices: a story about hacking into high-definition DVDs.
The words of Brian O’Nolan, variously Brian Ó Nualláin, Myles na gCopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen and, of course, Flann O’Brien. That O’Nolan was referencing his own dissolute student days at UCD only mildly distracts from the prophetic undertone of his words: I paid no attention whatsoever to books or study and regarded lectures as a [...] read our review »
The nod and wink politics of Ireland’s last two or three decades as practised par excellence by Bertie, Albert and Charlie is ultimately what has the Republic in the stew it’s in. Don’t get me wrong, the effective monitoring of those exercising of power does not demand full disclosure of everything all the time. But [...] read our review »
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »
1. “Open source” means something different.
2. There were numerous submissions that linked to pages displaying the actual exploit code (which is just a series of Hexadecimal numbers), not simply a story about it. Many submissions used the actual code in the text of the submission itself.
3. Initially, Digg censored stories that linked to or displayed the code.
4. After a user backlash, they stopped censoring those links.
5. Digg has not gone out of business. Going to http://www.digg.com to check on that assertion would have been out of the question here? Come on.