After Kevin posted to the Digg blog Wednesday evening that there were algorithmic changes to affect the impact of stories that will be promoted to the front page of the site, a " revolt " ensued and an open letter was written. An emergency Drill Down episode was held where numerous Digg users, including regular hosts Andy ) MrBabyman (, Reg ) zaibatsu (, and Muhammad ) msaleem ( spoke with other Digg users, including David Cohn ) DigiDave (, Karim ) supernova17 (,

Often, I hear from people who complain that social media doesn't do anything for their "marketing" efforts. Well, for one, social media users " that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit " are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. But there's a lot more to media than just these social networking sites.

Thought you had enough of the greatest Internet Marketing posts of 2007 ? Well, unfortunately, your reading list has just lengthened. Matt McGee over at Small Business SEM has compiled his own list of the "best posts of 2007″ in a site with a brilliantly and cleverly chosen title, the SEMMYS )Search Marketing Emmys(. In addition to a bit over overlap from my previous post, Matt covers other categories pertinent to search marketing, including local search,

When Digg came out with its new social features , some folks applauded the move while others despised it . Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. But are they secure? As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network )or a hybrid that incorporates both elements(, it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. Besides major usability issues , duplicate stories submissions , and ads that literally scream at you ,

Last year, I ended 2006 with a great )and still pertinent( list of blog posts and articles that I felt were really the best in their class in the area of Internet Marketing. This year, I present you my favorite timeless posts of 2007, complete with descriptions about each blog post )which more than quadrupled the workload for me this time around, especially because I tripled the amount of links, but I had fun!

It hasn't even been a week and my once positive outlook of Digg has come to a sour end. Yesterday, Brian Clark over at Copyblogger wrote that Digg is dead . You know, for awhile, I was giving Digg the benefit of the doubt. When I reported bugs, I got responses. Of course, when it came to the bury brigade , Digg never acknowledged those emails, neither by stating that there was a bury brigade or not. They simply ignored those accusations.