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Bye Buzz – Yahoo Buzz that is

Jeffrey Powers — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:58:06 +0000

Y Buzz

Yahoo! continues to condense the Yahoo! Giant. This time, it’s Yahoo! Buzz – the Digg-like site that aggregates news articles. In a statement made on the website, it says:

Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access the Yahoo! Buzz site. This was a hard decision. However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations.

We appreciate your patronage.

The Yahoo! Buzz Team

In the last 6 months, Yahoo! has continued to close down properties. Yahoo! 360, MyBlogLog, AllTheWeb and more. All put in mothballs.

Some properties continue to thrive – for now. Delicious almost saw demise, but Yahoo! corrected by stating the bookmarking site is actually “For Sale” (unless it did get sold. Last time I heard, the sale was unofficial news). Other sites we saw for sale were Yahoo! HotJobs (sold to Monster) and it’s search engine (to Microsoft).

No word why Buzz isn’t getting sold. Maybe they tested the market waters and no one wanted it.

Do You have the Buzz Widget on your Website?

One thing to note – if you installed the Buzz widget on your site, you might want to take it off.

No, not the Google Buzz widget. That’s still around.

Yahoo! Buzz launched Feb 26, 2008 to tepid fanfare. They launched to counter Digg. Earlier this year when content farms got hit with a new Google algorithm, Digg had to restructure. I guess Yahoo just wanted to be done with it.

GNC-2011-11-11 #626 Time for some Green Screen.

geeknews — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:05:13 +0000

Next show I am going to try and do some green screen which should be fun. I played with it tonight before the show and was blown away that I could get a good key here in the hotel room. Lot’s of tech and some new site and sponsor announcements next week.

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Emergency Info on Google goes Int.
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Kinect hacked to work on Mac.
Buy some Mac History.
Chinese build 15 Story Hotel in 6 days.
RSS apps Shoot out.
Charter to cap your Bandwidth.
Salaries in the Valley.
Scoble questions Arrington.
Podfather and RSS.
Hacker RSS feed.
3.5 Million to not leave Job.
Xbox Gaming only 60% of Three Hours Daily!
Steve Jobs Calling.
Teen Trends on Facebook.
Firefox 4 Beta 7 Smoking.
New traffic Cameras = Multiple Tickets.
Limewire Complaining (cough)
Dusting for Carbon Control.
Bing for all Androids now.
Digg Staff picking Trending News.
Bluefire Reader for iPad / iPhone!
NO 10% raise your fired.
Hacking Google TV for Hulu.
My Movies for iPad.
No TV Browsing just content please.
Chinese Cell Phone Virus.
Sony Bloggie in UK.
Paperfeeds.com?
Want AirPrint now?
Black Hole Cleaner for Mac.
WordPress.com Tips for Bloggers.
Web Based Todo.
NewTeeVee Live 2010.
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Audio Streaming Stats.
Windows Desktop Virtualization.
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GNC-2010-08-31 #606 Unique Content it Is!

geeknews — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:55:41 +0000

The number 1 request by all of you that filled out the survey was more unique content. I am going to do my best to deliver it along with the standard fare. New contest to win a Roku is on now winner next week listen to win. Big Thank You to all three sponsors of the show this month. If your a business owner check out the offering from Infusionsoft they have some very unique business offerings.

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Roku Lowers the Price dramatically.
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Rare Earth Metals get more Rare.
Gulf Stream to Power Florida?
Sony blocks PS3 Hack in Court.
NASA Pictures to Flickr.
UAV for Search and Rescue.
Google and AP kiss and Make Up.
Go Get Dictionary no More!
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Mining the Asteroid Belt?
Canadian Consumers win Big on ISP Competition.
Gates + Monsanto = Poor Choice.
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Headline Breath Test.
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Your Remains Pressed into LP’s.
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Gmail Priority Inbox.
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Go Old School in the Typewriter hack.
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Worlwide Population Chart.
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GNC-2010-06-10 #583 Hot Hot Hot!

geeknews — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:39:03 +0000

Your Geek is Toast, I have been out in the hot Texas sun all day today.. Working on a new project that is going to excite everyone when I announce what I am up to. I must have drank a gallon of water… But that does not stop the tech news and wait till you hear what a school district is doing it is going to blow you away. The voice mail hotline is open 24/7 619-342-7365 or email the show geeknews@gmail.com You need to listen to win as well.

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Electronic Tests?
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Second Life Layoff’s
New XP Exploit!
T-Mobile to get iPhone Next?
iPhone 4 Fragile?
Limewire 1 Billion – BP 75 Million.
Adobe 10.1 Upgrade Now!
Solar Sail Success.
Fed Judge goes against DHS.
* School Sells out!
Judge may rule against Mass Doe Lawsuits.
More Copyright in Canada.
Tailban Hacked
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Twitter Death Sentence.
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GNC-2010-05-06 #573 Become a GNC Insider!

geeknews — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:47:35 +0000

Some house cleaning and organizing tonight. I lay out some new initiatives that will make it easier to find information about the show. Plus we are announcing the opening of our Cafe Press store thanks to GNC Ohana Sam Garcia. You will find some new links in the show notes tonight to check out as well. Consider becoming a GNC Insider.

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Targus Power Supply recall.
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Bionic Arms.
Make your own Microsim.
More Kindle Usages.
3D TV Specs out of whack.
Spyware on Jailbroke iPad.
Alien Abduction investigated by Russians.
No iPhone for Verizon?
Best Buy in UK a hit.
Your First iPhone App development.
Check in With McDonalds on Facebook (GAG)
Google Goggles text translator.
iPad user Analysis by Yahoo.
Google is stuck on their design.
Digg cuts 10% of their staff.
Facebook = No Privacy = Evil!
Spammers get 2.6 Million Fine!
Patch Tuesday 2 Critical Patches.
Judge nixes iPad Warrant.
ClamCase Please?
Netflix Update coming to Roku.
Our DNA Gene pool has Neanderthal in it?
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GNC-2009-07-20 #495 Do you Like Math?

geeknews — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:01:40 +0000

Do you like math do you live math, i have a request of the Ohana today to help your geek pick something out. Details in the show. Lots of tech today, rare daytime recording enjoy the podcast and be sure to check out the other shows at PodcastMadness.com

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Eye Telescope amazing medical techology!
TweetMe way Cool!
In flight Wifi Tips
Digg Diggs a Deeper Hole for itself!
Airforce says Ares 1 escape system unsafe!
Apple has lost there minds!
ISS Spacewalk #2
Apple supposed to have Record Quarter!
Microsoft heads off EU Antitrust makes Browser change!
How hacker got access to Twitter via Hotmail
iPhone App approval process in meltdown!
Space Memories past 40 years!
Google Voice to compete with Skype?
Rejected Papers get new voice online!
Japanese Kibo just more gear!
LRO takes picture of Apollo 11 landing site!
Google Moon is live!
Why Japanese Phones are not in the United States!
The ever bigger AT&T iPhone Mess!
Is Internet Business DOA?
Mac Office 2008 SP2
Apple Loves Moms!
RIAA says DRM is Dead!
Online Meeting Schedulers Review.
10 Stats about Twitter.
Real Password Issues.
Data Says were going Mobile!
T-Mobile Going Socials? What For?
The Real cost of the Cloud!
Time Warp and S3 Backups
Kazaa goes Legit
New Apollo 11 Images!
AT&T Loosing Voice mail
Can the Pre Grow Up?
Why you need to Lie to be Secure Online.
256gb USB Drive
Get a cheap notebook!
Toshiba Wifi Picture Frame Integrated with other Services!
Blackberry desktop for Mac soon!
IE8 growth chart

GNC-2009-04-17 #469 Time Warner Smack Down

geeknews — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:08:53 +0000

Time Warner did not have the guts to do the Interview, they are all scared of you folks but I have a lot of fun with the questions in the show. Should be good for a laugh for all, maybe not Time Warner. Actually I am surprised they have not shut off my Internet.

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News Corp. creates new unit to share content
New venture aims to introduce fees for online news
Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
TWC Customers leaving in droves

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Amazon locking out some Kindle users
TWC Runs home to Mama after getting beat down!
Watch out for stuff in your Car
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TWC PR Disaster o BW Caps
Do you blog Anonymously?
Facebook letting Users Decide TOS Fate
National Geographic Amazing Infinite Photograph
Have Mac – Used P2P – Probably Hacked
Apple Market Sales Down
Internet Sales Tax Maybe coming!
Beyond Stupidity on Dominoes Gag
Move Over User Generated Content on YouTube
IPO for Skype would love to buy some Stock
Those that Snoop get Snooped on!
Cobert gets a Treadmil ISS gets Tranquility
SSD Encrypted Drives
Digg retreats on Diggbar
AT&T will have to Pay Apple big to Stay Exclusive on iPhone
Proxy + Crime = Same Jail Time
Swiss ISP say No Logging
Pirate Bay Trial Verdict Today
I Don’t like those Odds 1-221 for for Hubble Mission
Google wants to play Advertiser with Twitter
Kepler begins search for Planets
A PC Users confessions on Mac Usage
NASA may get more Shuttle Money
Twitter Secret or maybe not so Secret announce today
An Idiots View on TWC – BW Caps
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GNC-2008-02-15 #348

geeknews — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:52:49 +0000

Life of a Podcaster on the road at the bottom of the show notes see image. Info on Albuquerque meet up next Tuesday as well.

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95 Year Copyright
Navy gets a Shot at Satellite
Rush ask Steve Jobs for Tech Support
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7 Salesman Lies
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100 ways to use your iPod
More Gmail Delay
Panasonic HD camera
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Anti-Comcast Legislation
PS3 and PlayTV
Next Move for YouTube
Google Blacklist
ISS and Columbus ready for Business
P2P Companies go after Comcast

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GNC-2008-01-25 #342

geeknews — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:57:30 +0000

Great commentary from all of you and we cover a huge amount of tech news today. Some voicemail taking me to task at the end of the show over the financial issues of dreamhost.

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Sometime Men cannot be Trained
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MacBook Air Slow
MacBook Air USB Port Issues
Netflix Mac Video
Vudu Lowes Prices
Vista fewer flaws than other OS’es
Hulu Interview
Digg Changes
Google Health
Virgin SpaceShip2
OLPC Big Issues
Leave the Social No Way
OLPC Issues 2
Microsoft Updates Vista SP1

GNC-2008-01-18 #340

geeknews — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:22:27 +0000

Feels great to be back in the swing of things lots of comments and voicemail feedback at the end of the show glad you enjoyed teh CES back channel regular videos to be pushed online soon.

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AT&T Filter and Spy on Internet Traffic?
ICANN stop Domain Tasting!
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Microsoft Cracking Down on DVD Ripping?
J.C. Penny looses 650k users data
Gas Cloud to Collide!
First Mercury Flyby
Blogger.com Outage
Time Warner pay to download plan!!!!!!!
Violet Blue gets cold shoulder by Steve Jobs
Upgrade Google Analytics
Dell XPS Shock Hazard
Digg Internal Moderators Ruin Digg
Black Holes gone Wild
Seti did not call Home!
Macworld Blogger Lounge OLPC big HIt
Defendant Big Win against RIAA
Apple User Survey
Time Warner Idiots
Bionic Contact lenses
Miro Overhaul
Yahoo Open ID
Right or Left Side of Bed
Album DOA

GNC-2007-12-21 #327

geeknews — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:04:23 +0000

Special Edition of the Geek News Central Podcast recorded during the 24hr Podcast. All the regular great coverage plus the live components which were a lot of fun.

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Interesting Trekkie Podcast
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CSS Selector Test
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Airline Travel Resource
Microsoft vs Google over Office

Show Notes:
Mark Cuban Facebook Strategy
Doug Kaye on real Time Web
Congress finally to equal playing field in Radio
23 iTunes add on’s
OLPC Unboxing
Real Blue Man
Deep Impact new mission approved
Compaq and HP Bricking Bug
Stupid guy gets what he deserves
Unix Admin Pleads Guilty on Power Grid Sabotage
Nokia N96 in the wild
Micorchip can detect Tumors
A really good WiFi picture frame
IE8 and Browser Wars
Kent Nichols Ask a Ninja Blog
Digg is DOA
Steal my Content and Pictures Please
Think Secret and the Apple Gestapo
S3 as a end user product
Bet Winner NYT versus Weblogs
FCC Votes to Relax Ownership Rules

Cool Things I found
Six reasons to slow down eating
Fuel Economy and big Cars
Tires with Microchip Sensors
Don’t like shoes in the house?

GNC-2007-12-18 #326

geeknews — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:37:36 +0000

Big ramp up for the 24hr show lots of details of the event and I hope that you will join me live for the event. Particpate be heard and lets have a lot of fun.

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Telecomm Bill Pulled for now!
YouTube Bubbles
Mileage Running
RIAA versus Grandma
Bye Bye Old Light Bulbs
Hands on with Open Office
Cool Business Cards
Ohio Cracks down on Voting Machines
Ice Chunks that will Kill you
Ice on the Move
Next Gen cool GPS Nav System
Fun with Sprint
SanDisk Photo Album
Digg want’s 300 Million
Windows Genuine Advantage making some look like Theives
Vista makes biggest disappointment List
Facebook PHP Tutorial
Good Web design
Surviving the 2008 Recession
Bloglines new Features
Google Knol?
ISS Spacewalk
Deep Impact New Comet Tasking
Super Massive Black Hole shooting Radiation
Do you use PayWall Services?
Microsoft on Ebay

GNC-2007-10-23 #311

geeknews — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:37:45 +0000

I get serious about what is happening in the Tech Blogging space and this Monkey business that Comcast is up to! Are you ready to get it on!

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Dave Winers New way to View News
New Zune Nov 13th
Walt Mossberg Please release me!!
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Soyuz Lands after Wild Ride home from ISS
Wireless SD card
Big Media Pulling out of YouTube (Good Riddance)
Verizon FIOS Announcement Today
New Trans-Pacific Fiber Cable
Shuttle to try and Launch this Morning
More RSS Tampering
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GNC-2007-08-10 #292

geeknews — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:20:27 +0000

Two major rants tonight: Realistic privacy expectations in new media and signing exclusive podcast advertising contracts. Plus, a lot of great tech news and information.

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Flashlight that makes you throw up

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Spam Blogs
AOL will Kill Digg Clone
Google Deletes Own Blog as Spammer
MAC vs PC in Cost
Circuit City and No Refunds
Oklahoma Students Fight Back
Apple Strategy
iPhone Touch Screen Issues
Ford almost got my vision correct
Sprint + Nokia N800
iMac teardown
Apple Wireless Keyboard
Xbox 360 has HDMI
NASA Asteroid Buster mock up
Vonage Financials
Google Evil News Walled Garden
Be careful Jason!
Endeavor STS-118
Search Engine Privacy Improvements?
Big File Transfer
Hitachi Blu-ray Camcorder
iLife08
Low Marks on Video Downloads
DRM Stripped from Netflix Movie Stream
Universal Music DRM Free Test

GNC-2007-06-19 #277

geeknews — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:18:40 +0000

Congrats to our two newsletter winners, listen to win tonight. Lots of great content tonight late start here but lots of past show feedback at the end of the show.

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RIAA – MPAA New Lobby
NBC wants ISP’s to Spy
AT&T $10.00 DSL
Drugs in the Sewage
Email Search Warrant Required
Shuttle Repair and ISS Spacewalks
ISS Computers
Truss Installs
Glubble
Crazyegg
Newspaper Aggregation
Webcam Enhancer
Google Labs
Google Public policy
Shuttle Image
Top 10 Destroy Planet Earth
Blockbuster = Blu-ray
HDMI Switch
Nascar and AT&T
Zune Marketplace Expands
Safari Bashed by Windows Users
Car Buried for 50 Years
100 Legal Free Games
Mac Defrag
Fix Dead Pixels on LCD
Ten Photo Mistakes
Leopard PC Switching
Wash a Keyboard
WordPress Themes
33 Free TV Websites
Digg Effect on Shared Servers
Dell does the right thing!
iPhone not so Sweet
Google Gears of War
Ten Second Rule

GNC-2007-02-20 #243

geeknews — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:20:21 +0000

Extremely late Podcast from Jacksonville Florida, I cover my ordeal with United and what has been happening the past 4 days including some rapid fire tech stories.

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Dirty Bomb Cleanup Technology
Deep Impact
LCD Versus BB Gun
HDMI Cables
Monitoring Domain Searches
Homeless by Choice
APOD
XM and Sirius
10 Linux Commands
Banned Digg Sites
Charter Sad Tech Support
Balmer and Vista
MSN Digg Site
Worst Workspace
Jobs Blast Teachers and Unions
Apple Patches Bugs
Firefox has Bug
Sony PS3 Movie Offering
MPAA Hypocrites
Sat Launch

GNC-2007-02-02 #239

geeknews — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:48:50 +0000

Lots of great content for a Friday show almost felt like a Tuesday podcast. Lots of Vista news and I talk some on Linux as well.

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Show Notes:
MyBlogLog Interview
Vista Speech Flaw
Zune Exec Leaves
ISS Toxic Leak
TiVo Spying on You?
Apple & Cisco
Vista Workaround
Zune Screen Cracking?
Art or Terror
Pirate Bay getting Weird!
Vista – Ubuntu Hoax
Digg Changes
Measuring Internet Traffic
BitTorrent Dialouge
Confessions of a Switcher
Linux Not Ready for Business?
Vista CableCard?
90% Games broken with Vista?
1951 Postal System
iTunes DOA with Vista
NFL Cracks Down!
USB Posture Device
Vista Multiple Validations?
BlogWerk !!!
Whats Cool at Demo!
Digg Payola Exposed
BitTorrent and Net Neutrality
Flickr Users Mad!
PayPerPost Kicks up the Ante
China Space Weapon Endangers World
Internet Predictions
Zoho Notebook !!!
Med.Dium

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GNC-2006-12-29 #228

geeknews — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:11:02 +0000

Last show of the year so I do some wrap up stats and of course bring you a full line of tech with a special performance at the end of the show by my two aspiring artist here in the house.

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Don’t use $2.00 bill at Best Buy
Google to Bust Digg?
Power Hungry Electronics
Microsoft and Bloggers
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Vista DRM
Sony tries to pull a fast one!
Vista Upgrade not Pretty!
Image Optimization for Websites
AT&T & BellSouth
Top Ten Apple Rumors

GNC-2006-12-19 #226

geeknews — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:18:26 +0000

Someone wins a Zune tonight and thanks for all the feedback you all keep driving this show forward. Please support our sponsors without them this show would not be possible.

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Time Magazine
Comcast Technician
Cold Turkey Cable TV
Digg User Wetting Himself
NZ Fossil
Good Hosting and Google
99 Tips
Mac Santa
SageTV for Mac
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Wallet Alarm
NASA and Google
Fight Blog Spam
New Media Tools
Library of Congress
Google Audio Ads how about Podcastig?
Imbalanced Internet
Windows Media Rules
Spacewalk
PSP Movies
Suburbs versus AT&T
Cars and Fairuse?
Fiber Optic Cable Contract
Craigsnumber
Plink

Digg Podcast Section Broken!

todd — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:49:24 +0000

The new Podcast feature that was added to Digg is not working for a large number of podcasts. I have tried for about a hour today without success to get my podcast added to Digg and the site keeps coming back with “You have entered the URL for an Invalid Feed”

Looking at Feedvalidator.org my podcast feed at http://www.geeknewscentral.com/podcast.xml is fully valid with no errors.

It’s to bad that Digg did not test this, it works for some feeds and not others. Completely unsatisfactory for a site that is as popular and as high caliber as Digg.

Big time Posting FRAUD by a TOP Digg Poster

todd — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:59:12 +0000

I suppose this was bound to happen but it appears some top Digg users are being paid off. To make it worse some are being PAID by PR firm to put postings on Digg?

Jason Calacanis reports this on his blog

“A PR/marketing firm confirmed with me that they had a number of the top 50 users on digg now on the payroll–and this wasn’t a totally insignificant firm.”

Folks this really stinks to high heaven, and just goes to prove that anyone can be bought off. It’s one thing to post a Digg entry because you think something is worthy, it is quite another to post a Digg article having been paid to do it and use your current rank as a Top Digg users to manipulate the system. [Jason Calacanis]

GNC-2006-11-28 #220

geeknews — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:23:25 +0000

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A Top 50 Digg User stops Digging and Starts Blogging!

todd — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:26:29 +0000

I asked in this Blog a few days ago why the Top Digg users don’t start blogging versus digging. These writers are obviously very talented in finding great content. Well today I received an e-mail from a Top 50 Digg user and he for now at least is going to Blog versus Digg his decision was partly due to my original post.

In response I have added his blog to my daily read list, if he really wants to kick it up a notch launch a new blog and recruit a team of top digg users post to and share the spoils. Count me in as a subscriber if they do. Heck I would pay to get access to a blog that the top diggers were actively posting to.

The price to get started is as close to zero as one can get. If they work together it could be a very powerful thing! [hemphill81.blogspot.com]

Complete Digg Tools Collection Website

geeknews — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:54:16 +0000

If you are a Digg maniac you will love this site as it has all of the Digg tools you could ever need. [www.quickonlinetips.com]

Top Digg users should focus on their own Blogs

todd — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:37:27 +0000

Top Digg users are crying like kids having the car keys taken away over the algorithm changes that were put in place recently at Digg. Over the past couple of years I have probably submitted a dozen stories to Digg their with varying results but the question is why beyond ego would I care if I became a top digger? Those that spend a lot of time digging stories are not getting paid. I quit helping other people get rich a long time ago. The only thing they are getting is bragging rights.

If those top diggers would focus there efforts in putting that information on their own blogs I would be inclined to subscribe to those top diggers blogs and grace them with hit counts. I am always looking for good stories to link to. These folks obviously have a talent to finding good stories so their is no doubt in my mind that they would make good bloggers.

But instead for the last couple of days they have been crying about how they have been screwed over and how Kevin Rose is not participating in the discussion. At least they took that to their own blogs. [themulife.com]