Lesson learned by Kevin Rose and the Digg folks who tried to play whack-a-mole with users who posted the code to unlocking copy-protected High Def movies: You live by user-generated content, you die by user-generated content. Michael Arrington cheers on the mob: “Until today, it seems, even Digg didn’t fully understand the power of its […]

Awwwww. Looks like someone is upset that readers of this blog vote for their favorite posts using the Digg button at the bottom of each entry, which I incorporated last month. Occasionally, a post here gets promoted onto the Digg front page (the more positive votes, the higher an article/post rises). And a few left-wingers […]

Thanks to my wonderful web guy, Mark Jaquith, you’ll notice a new feature at the end of every post that I started including over the weekend. It says “Digg This.” If you click on it, it’ll take you to Digg, the hot user-powered content site that now has a Politics section. Registered members of the […]