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Digg, Stumble & the Madness of Crowds

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My friend and occasional sparring partner Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 has a good post today about the transitory nature of the Digg "flash crowd" phenomenon - the point being, as he puts it, that "on her blog, but says she isn't particularly concerned about the effect on her own site. She's more concerned about all the abusive comments that were left on her post and also on the site she pointed to. As she puts it: "I am no fan of Digg. Never have been. This experience and the comments left here just add to my contempt for a place where people act like wild animals instead of human beings."

points out - and SEOmoz 10e20, Chip Griffin at Small Business SEM. And Webomatica has this piece at SEOmoz illustrates. And there is also some evidence that a Stumble link has more longevity than the typical link from a social bookmarking site. StumbleUpon - which apparently Comments Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Mathew Ingram is a technology writer and blogger for the Globe and Mail, a national newspaper based in Toronto, and also writes about the Web and media at www.mathewingram.com/media.

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