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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Lies, Damned Lies and Weblog Statistics

Sorry for another list, but I seem to have run out of semi-​​​​profound thoughts for this week about Web 2.0 and social media. Instead, the old standby of weird and inter­esting things I found from my site stat­istics this morning. I don’t have an enormous amount of faith in these programs. My host runs two, awstats and Webalizer,

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