Comments on: How to prepare for Boingboing and Digg? http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/ Philippines, Technology News & Reviews Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:54:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Running WP Super Cache | YugaTech | Philippine Technology News & Reviews http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-156660 Running WP Super Cache | YugaTech | Philippine Technology News & Reviews Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:39:50 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-156660 [...] installing WP Super Cache on several blogs (including this one), and updating the old and clunky WP-Cache (which, IMO, is real hard to setup), the server seemed to be running much smoother now. Best part [...] [...] installing WP Super Cache on several blogs (including this one), and updating the old and clunky WP-Cache (which, IMO, is real hard to setup), the server seemed to be running much smoother now. Best part [...]

]]> By: rain http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-48673 rain Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:28:05 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-48673 Ano ba yung BoingBoing na yan? Nakakain ba yan? *evil laughter* Ano ba yung BoingBoing na yan? Nakakain ba yan?

*evil laughter*

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-48027 J. Angelo Racoma Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:40:32 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-48027 Actually, my feedburner subscription count has jumped up since they changed the way they counted subscribers (that was about two months ago). And yes, I checked the stats. It seems most of the new subscribers are firefox live bookmarks. Thanks for submitting the story, Ahmed! :P Seems you've quite got the DIGG magic. Angelo Actually, my feedburner subscription count has jumped up since they changed the way they counted subscribers (that was about two months ago). And yes, I checked the stats. It seems most of the new subscribers are firefox live bookmarks.

Thanks for submitting the story, Ahmed! :P Seems you’ve quite got the DIGG magic.

Angelo

]]> By: AhmedF http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-47996 AhmedF Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:19:56 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-47996 The feed count always jumps - its an illusion. Just FireFox Live Bookmarks - in a few days it will fall. At the same time, a user cannot 'predict' the digg/boingboing effect happening. I would imagine everyone is trying to create compelling content that will generate links and so forth. The feed count always jumps - its an illusion. Just FireFox Live Bookmarks - in a few days it will fall.

At the same time, a user cannot ‘predict’ the digg/boingboing effect happening. I would imagine everyone is trying to create compelling content that will generate links and so forth.

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-47990 J. Angelo Racoma Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:27:09 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-47990 A clarification. I called them a 'mob' because one said 'hey, this site's down. it must be crappy,' then all other seemed to think likewise and comment with the same thoughts. Thing is, the site just overloaded and the content was valid. But people still flagged it as inaccurate or lame. How stupid. Anyway, I don't have ads on my site, and I probably won't put up any, at least in the short term. And the economic benefits of getting DUGG go far beyond ad clicks (since DIGGers are techies anyway, and are likely to be adsense blind). I actually got dugg once already, but it was an article I wrote on ForeverGeek about four months ago. Our server was able to handle the load, and up to now people link to and comment to that post of mine (about podcasting) and consider it to be a good resource on basic podcasting. Of course, a few weeks after, we challenged the DIGG model and DIGG banned us for a while. We realized DIGG wasn't really the democratic system we thought. There are internal filters and influences. Within (or around) DIGG exists TPTB - the powers that be. As we at Enthropia and BloggyNetwork would say, the benefit of getting DUGG frontpage wouldn't be monetary, but this would help increase your popularity and readers' regard for you and your site. It's one good way to build up your reputation on the Net. Suddenly my feedburner subscriptions jumped up two- to three-fold. I'm hoping for increased _quality_ readership from this point on. A clarification. I called them a ‘mob’ because one said ‘hey, this site’s down. it must be crappy,’ then all other seemed to think likewise and comment with the same thoughts. Thing is, the site just overloaded and the content was valid. But people still flagged it as inaccurate or lame.

How stupid.

Anyway, I don’t have ads on my site, and I probably won’t put up any, at least in the short term. And the economic benefits of getting DUGG go far beyond ad clicks (since DIGGers are techies anyway, and are likely to be adsense blind).

I actually got dugg once already, but it was an article I wrote on ForeverGeek about four months ago. Our server was able to handle the load, and up to now people link to and comment to that post of mine (about podcasting) and consider it to be a good resource on basic podcasting.

Of course, a few weeks after, we challenged the DIGG model and DIGG banned us for a while. We realized DIGG wasn’t really the democratic system we thought. There are internal filters and influences. Within (or around) DIGG exists TPTB - the powers that be.

As we at Enthropia and BloggyNetwork would say, the benefit of getting DUGG frontpage wouldn’t be monetary, but this would help increase your popularity and readers’ regard for you and your site. It’s one good way to build up your reputation on the Net.

Suddenly my feedburner subscriptions jumped up two- to three-fold. I’m hoping for increased _quality_ readership from this point on.

]]> By: Mike Lopez http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-47986 Mike Lopez Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:11:27 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-47986 Angelo, just curious - aside from the traffic (which apparently is too much), did you benefit from the sudden digg 'mob attack'? Angelo, just curious - aside from the traffic (which apparently is too much), did you benefit from the sudden digg ‘mob attack’?

]]> By: jhay http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-47982 jhay Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:15:59 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-47982 Hmm...I think it would be cumbersome to inform the webhost prior to posting an entry because you can never be sure that it will get dugg after you post it or later on in the future when a reader does spend some more extra seconds to click on the digg this icon or link. Unless you use a dummy account and digg your own post and so on like what a friend of mine does. It's shrewed but it does work in increasing traffic. Like Sir Angelo Racoma, I'm a bit scared of getting dugg. It could quickly eat up my month's bandwidth and since I using the free .com.ph domain + hosting, I don't know if I would get the additional bandwidth also for free. I noticed this when a post of mine was dugg, though it didn't reached the top of the front page, traffic spiked and my bandwidth consumption shot up by 12% in just a day. I'll now go and look for wp-cache plugin just to get a little prepared for the next digg mob attack. ;) Hmm…I think it would be cumbersome to inform the webhost prior to posting an entry because you can never be sure that it will get dugg after you post it or later on in the future when a reader does spend some more extra seconds to click on the digg this icon or link.

Unless you use a dummy account and digg your own post and so on like what a friend of mine does. It’s shrewed but it does work in increasing traffic.

Like Sir Angelo Racoma, I’m a bit scared of getting dugg. It could quickly eat up my month’s bandwidth and since I using the free .com.ph domain + hosting, I don’t know if I would get the additional bandwidth also for free. I noticed this when a post of mine was dugg, though it didn’t reached the top of the front page, traffic spiked and my bandwidth consumption shot up by 12% in just a day.

I’ll now go and look for wp-cache plugin just to get a little prepared for the next digg mob attack. ;)

]]> By: eric http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-47955 eric Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:28:03 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-47955 mmmmmm abe ito rin ba ang dahilan sa pagkalugmok ng blog ko kanina? eheh natakot ako akala ko na-hack blog ko. kaya bigla akong nag test post mmmmmm

abe ito rin ba ang dahilan sa pagkalugmok ng blog ko kanina? eheh

natakot ako akala ko na-hack blog ko. kaya bigla akong nag test post

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-computing/how-to-prepare-for-boingboing-and-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-47951 J. Angelo Racoma Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:21:36 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=1128#comment-47951 Yeah, I know who I am. Screw DIGG! What I hate about DIGG is the mob mentality so prevalent. Site was down so they buried the entry and flagged it as inaccurate just a while after it reached front page. I'd rather check out my friends' bookmarks on del.icio.us or stumbleupon. Honestly, I never expected to get dugg. Welp, 'til next time! Yeah, I know who I am. Screw DIGG!

What I hate about DIGG is the mob mentality so prevalent. Site was down so they buried the entry and flagged it as inaccurate just a while after it reached front page.

I’d rather check out my friends’ bookmarks on del.icio.us or stumbleupon.

Honestly, I never expected to get dugg.

Welp, ’til next time!

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