I Was Abducted and Taken to Planet Reddit

I was sitting at my computer last week after a long afternoon of social media and client calls. I had been sleepy all morning and decided to close my eyes and relax for a bit in my plush office chair, which my wife got for me on my last birthday.

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I heard a strange noise and sat upright abruptly to find I could move nothing below my shoulders. It was as if I was paralyzed. I open my mouth to yell out for my wife, but my words would not come out. It was then that I noticed a small, simple looking, little alien standing on the edge of my desk.

At this point I jumped up and out of my short dream, realizing that I was probably going to be late meeting up with Alexis Ohanian, Steve Huffman, and the rest of the Reddit team at their office in downtown San Francisco.

After a quick tour of Wired, the Reddit team and I spent about 2 or 3 hours talking about weird things in Asia, Reddit’s new subreddits system, some new features and changes coming to Reddit.com, and even Digg a bit.

Amazingly we spent quite a bit of time talking about the evolution of the spammer, SEO, and Social Media Marketing. It was very interesting and I really felt the team listened and was willing to really discuss the various topics.
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April 1, 2008 | Filed Under Reddit, Social Media | 1 Comment 

Digg’s April Fools… The Joke is on You!

There has been a mess of April Fools jokes going around the web but none had fooled me until I ran across Digg’s. I actually thought my browser was having a javascript issue when these weird symbols showed up where the number of Diggs used to be.

Digg added in a quick joke with their latest downtime to make the Digg vote buttons display one of 8 different symbols instead of the actual Digg vote count, which is normally shows.

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Pretty interesting and yeah it fooled me for a second, but the problem is that the new addition has caused Digg to lag and crawl to a snail’s pace. It now takes forever to navigate through the site and load pages. It was so bad that I actually rebooted my computer and reset my modem thinking it might have been my connection.

Alas Digg.com, it would appear that you have gone and fooled yourself.

April 1, 2008 | Filed Under Digg, Social Media | 7 Comments 

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