Lyno Sullivan, December 20, 2008
Commentary and Suggestions on Digg

Summary: Presents an unusual and time intensive blogging and digging technique that has potential as an information publication style, blending old and new artfully.

I just watched a very inspirational video I discovered on digg.com at http://digg.com/people/Micro_Sculptor_Art_in_the_Eye_of_a_Needle entitled “Micro Sculptor: Art in the Eye of a Needle”. It told the story of a man who worked inside the eye of a needle under the eye of a microscope to sculpt works of art. I was awestruck by that man’s patience. I could not imagine myself having either the patience or the muscle control necessary to such micro sculpture. I saw a camel that fits in the eye of a needle.

I have had many eye opening and heart opening experiences following information leads provided free of charge by my friends at digg.com. I derive a high rate of return from my time invested within and about digg.com. Because of my manic enthusiasm for digg.com at the moment I decided to offer some commentary of my initial experience and some suggestions about what I am trying to find.

I wrote a piece at http://peaceengine.com/blog/2008/11/23/1119-digg-analysis/ and created a dig at http://peaceengine.com/blog/2008/11/23/1119-digg-analysis/ and as of this writing witness which I thought depicted an interesting and useful technique.
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Yep. As of twenty-one days later, I was still the only human on earth who dugg the post I wrote. I guess that says something about my technique. It also says something about how the digg.com culture operates. First of all, because I created the post I am automatically counted as “digg!”. I could undigg my post but that would be bad form. Why would I have posted, in the first place, something unworthy of my own “digg!”.

I learned that digg.com does a spell check and won’t let misspelled titles into their website. I was forced to change “digg” to “digger” in order to get my title past the digg.com censorship board.

While the mechanics at digg.com are sometimes fascinating, of much greater interest are the human dynamics at play. I guess that is what it means to be a social networking site like digg.com.

I wrote my son a letter designed to be coherent with this typed page. That page is quoted and displayed below in the customary manner.

My dearest son,

I enjoyed talking with you again from your heart to mine and round trip back.

I am once again writing a post at http://blog.peaceengine.com/ and http://digg.com/

I am following my procedural pattern:

1) handwrite the id™ page that is to become the focus of the day’s blog,
2) digitally scan the handwritten id™ page,
3) publish the blog entry
4) publish the digg entry

Having created a minimalist process claim, let me now add a few optional steps:

-1) incubate a memorable thought bubble
-2) scribe the id™ page carefully
-3) incubate a memorable blog entry
-4a) improve upon the blog entry
-4b) incubate a memorable digg title and summary

-5) review digg response
-6) improve digg response (shout)
-7) gather more friends and fans

Please review this post and devise any improvements, if you are of a mind, and publish your ideas in commentary at SITES.

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