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Digg users twice as likely to bury CNN than BBC (via @adamsherk)

Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

Adam Sherk works in the industry. He helps publishers and other content providers with SEO and social media. As a result he’s pretty interested in Digg and he’s done some clever research.
Adam used di66.net’s list of top sources in Digg for the last 30 days http://di66.net/top-sites-30d-by-posts.html and fished out the news sites. Next he used [...]

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Intense Debate makes progress in baby steps

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

Intense Debate is the Automattic www.automattic.com owned competitor to Disqus. The idea is a good one; rather than locking comments into a single blog and a single thread why not let the comments be part of a comment community and enhance the comment interface while you’re at it?
The best way to test this out is [...]

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Dan Thornton (@badgergravling) on building online communities

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Andrew.

Over at TheWayoftheWeb Dan Thornton has been kind enough to share the presentation he gave to the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.
We was invited to talk about building online communities and he took a useful birds eye view to this. His presentation is available via Slideshare but here are a few of our [...]

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