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art of organizing

I wouldn’t consider myself an organized person. I think this folder on my desktop sums up my organizational skills;

Now on one hand, that IS being organized as i’m reducing clutter on my desktop, but on the other hand, the irony is there for all to see…

A lot of junk gets thrown in there as you can see from the folder stats

Generally it’s full of text files or logos/graphics work from sites i’ve sold on in the past. There’s also so undeveloped ‘bones’ of ideas in there and the remains of some installs and plugins etc…

Anyway, for college, i just have the one folder to cover 6 modules. I just shove everything in there It works, to an extent, much like my ‘unsorted’ desktop folder. But yesterday i splashed out and bought another folder, which is divided in to 12 compartments, so it’s basically a mini filing cabinet.

So what that means is that i’m still only carrying around one folder, but it’s several mini folders within folders. I’ll see the benefit of that on a daily basis - theoretically i should be able to pull out notes 6 times quicker than i have been up to now But the real benefit will be seen come exam time when i have a few free hours.

If i see a folder full of crap from all sorts of subjects i’ll most likely stay away from it as it would be too much work trying to sort it all out. But if i have a nicely organized folder, i might just spend a bit of extra time going through some of the notes.

That’s the sort of difference €6 can make. The only reason i HAVEN’T gotten a folder like this up until now is because i haven’t seen one in any of the shops i’m in regularly. So i went around town and deliberately set out to find this folder. Whilst i was there i also bought two boxes of paper clips, a pencil that looks like a pen and has a rubber on top (i hate traditional pencils) and a pocket sized ‘black book’ so i can carry it around with me and jot down useful stuff people say or i say to myself.

In a bid to show that you can turn anything in to creativity online, i decided i’d join a full box of paperclips together and make the word ‘digg‘ and then submit it to digg. Totally and utterly pointless and stupid, but it’s purely an experimental ’stunt’ to hopefully show how you can turn literally anything in to online success. All it takes is a bit of mad creativity I’ll let you guys know how many ‘diggs’ it gets at a later date and you may not be laughing then

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MrBabyMan Exposed

It looks like the Digg Community have outed the top digger - MrBabyMan. How many times have we seen this guy’s articles on the frontpage of digg? Too many. Is it simply the work of a good digger or the work of automated scripts?

I suspect the latter and the Digg community have finally outed this guy over the last couple of days.

In total, he’s Dugg 106,267 articles. That’s in just under a 3 year period. So lets say an average of 97 Diggs per day. Do-able, if you sit at a PC 24/7.

Apparently he does;

Ok, so EVEN IF this guy does sit at home all day, 24/7, digging stuff… how can he explain this or this. As a fellow digg user, before i digg ANYTHING, i’ll at least read the title and description before i digg something. Digging 82 articles in 3 minutes is about 1 digg every 2 seconds, meaning MrBabyMan most likely just hits a digg button again and again, not caring about what he diggs.

If this was 10 diggs in 1 minute, maybe we could believe it… but to sustain this digging madness for 3 minutes? Nonsense. MrBabyMan is being aided by software or robots and the digg community want him out.

There are digg scripts out there.

if i had $200m i’d buy digg

So apparently google have pulled out of buying digg.com at the last hurdle in a $200m deal. That’s a big shock. I fully expected google to buy digg because it makes sense in so many ways.

Digg probably has the largest community of webmasters and internet addicts under the one roof online - very influential people.

All the big bloggers, big news sites and video sites are using digg. As a result, if it’s not on digg, it’s not worth talking about.

Digg would have been the perfect weapon to pin down the ‘news’ area online for google. That’s why i’m very surprised google have backed away from it.

Perhaps Google fear the community is too powerful or influencial - after all, digg users have made their feelings known in the past (multiple times too) - google don’t like that sort of power being with the end user.

$200m, although mega bucks - is also pretty cheap i feel (not that money is a problem for Google anyway). Google could integrate digg with youtube, igoogle, google news and see it’s value rocket overnight - it’d be great way to knit everything together.

Given the fact we’re hearing google are testing social interaction features on search results (in other words - stealing some digg style features), it really is baffling why they’ve backed out of the deal. Money obviously isn’t a problem, so it doesn’t leave many other problems… perhaps the digg crew wanted a slice of shares or to stay in control when google had other plans? I’m sure we’ll find out at some stage.