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Understanding digg: rate, not volume

This is a personal attempt to under­stand the digg front page. I am not a math­em­atician, nor a coder nor an Excel wiz (all of which will become obvious). Nonetheless, I wanted to under­stand digg better than I did and decided a tiny bit of analysis was in order.

This was the state of play on the front page at 16:25 BST today.

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Blogging for pennies

Judging from the comments and track­backs on this site, a fair pro­por­tion of blog readers have a blog them­selves. But how many of you regard that blog as your day job? There’s an inter­esting article about your chances of making money from blogging in the new Business 2.0, with a bold promise in the sub­heading: “here’s how

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UK trusts TV twice as much as online

From a study by Telecom Express, a company that provides com­pet­i­tions, polls and other inter­active services to news­pa­pers, magazines and broadcast:

The most trusted source of inform­a­tion was tele­vi­sion, scoring 66 per cent, just as highly as family and friends. Radio was listed the fifth most trust­worthy source of inform­a­tion, below national news­pa­pers, but above websites.

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Blogs on a Snake. Irrelevant?

The verdict is in. Now its opening weekend is over, it’s time to count the votes on Snakes on a Plane.

This is what the public thought, com­paring the takings from it’s opening weekend in the US to those of other summer blockbusters:

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 — $135.6M Cars — $60.1M Superman

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Visualising the network

What are social networks in the Web 2.0 world? Perhaps a picture might help. (click for bigger)

More of these great diagrams from David Armano here. They are open source and ready to be slipped into your next PowerPoint presentation.

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