http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/03/01/digg-communists-or-kgb/ My opinions about convergence, consumer technology, gadgets, Web, and more. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/03/01/digg-communists-or-kgb/comment-page-1/#comment-126799 Davis Freeberg Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:57:06 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/03/01/digg-communists-or-kgb/#comment-126799 The traffic from Digg might be fast and furious and you are right about it being low quality traffic for most brands, but getting the right story on Digg can still yield dividends, especially for the right brand. While all the noob comments get pretty old fast, once a story gets picked up on Digg, it almost always shows up on at least a few blogs. I don't think it's as influential as techmeme for the early adopter crowd, but I see Gizmodo, Engadget, Techdirt, etc. pull stories off of Digg all the time. The traffic from Digg might be fast and furious and you are right about it being low quality traffic for most brands, but getting the right story on Digg can still yield dividends, especially for the right brand. While all the noob comments get pretty old fast, once a story gets picked up on Digg, it almost always shows up on at least a few blogs. I don’t think it’s as influential as techmeme for the early adopter crowd, but I see Gizmodo, Engadget, Techdirt, etc. pull stories off of Digg all the time.

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