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.
What was life like for children of political activists during the Troubles? A new book by Bill Rolston and published by Guildhall Press during the summer has collected together the stories of twenty Children of the Revolution whose parents’ activities – and in many cases, imprisonment – had a significant affect on childhoods and life [...] read our review »
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] 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.