Using Digg to Game the Stock Market

In yesterday's FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast, Shel and I talked about this story from VNU's Silicon Valley Sleuth today which, if true, is far more alarming: Something extremely weird is going on over on Digg.com. Today for the third time in a short period, a story got promoted to the front page where a blogger raises a baseless rumour about Google buying Sun. And as is explained further down, it appears that this is the result of a coordinated effort to fool Digg into promoting the story. The blog author has no sources, zero credibility and most importantly his reasoning is completely erratic. That's a very good question. Caveat: don't believe everything you read in the newspapers online. Add to Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: