Battleangel | Personal

Though for the record I am to be blamed for digging my own post. Self-promotion or server suicide?

http://digg.com/technology/Pirate_Party_launches_in_Sweden

Stats from midnight January 2nd – present. No fancy visistor stats, just graphical bandwidth usage to get a general idea. The post itself took about 5000 unique hits over 20 hours or so. The Digg was moderately popular with about 670 diggs and 60 comments (15 locally). By that tally one can only afford at most two Diggs a month no matter how much fun it may be and how important information you have unearthed. So bottom line, Digg someone else. It’s the information itself that is important.

Note to self: The next you write a hack article and plaster it on Digg, only to later be pirated (Yaaaarrrr!) by Inquirer and become the indirect source for the Slashdot posting, be a little less flamboyant and less liberal with the facts. Not that the reporting was faulty. Just a little hyped up with the subtleties of an elephant in a porcelain store. I don’t see how “real journalists” can live with what they write.