Update: Are Ron Paul Supporters Gaming Digg?

Update: This article was submitted to Digg by someone I don’t know and was starting to gain a bit of traction (28 votes and 15 comments as of this writing). However, the story has been prematurely removed from the upcoming queue for the US Elections 2008 section. Digg has confirmed that the story was removed because it was buried....

Link Roundup (3/23/2007)

(1) Twitter: All Trivia, All The Time

Is Twitter a phenomenon or the Spring 2007 version of parachute pants?  BusinessWeek takes a look at the pros and cons of the service.

(2) Blogs turn 10–who’s the father?

CNET tries to figure out who the first blogger was....

Online Poll: Which Magazine Has the Best Website?

The American Society of Magazine Editors has announced the finalists for their annual National Magazine Awards. The finalists for outstanding online program are belief.net, businessweek.com, ESPN.com, People.com and Slate.com.  

Fill out the poll below to let us know which one you think is the best.  If you think the best magazine website is not listed,...

Huffington Tracks Down “Vote Different” Author

Arianna Huffington has a blog post up exposing the maker of the now famous “Vote Different” Hillary Clinton attack ad as Philip de Vellis, an employee at the Democrat web consultancy Blue State Digital.  Background on the situation is available here.

I’d like to personally thank Huffington for breaking this story. ...

Is Twitter a Top Down System?

John Edwards just started Twittering  a few weeks ago.  In that short time, he has already accumulated 1,261 followers and 1,341 friends.  Not bad.  Based on the Twitterholic leaderboard, John Edwards is probably one of the top five most popular people on all of Twitter in terms of friends/followers (although he is not yet on that list)....