Digg Cleans Up Navigation, Candidates, and Adds Olympics
Digg has made some new changes today that are worth noting, including “simplifying the navigation”, updating the Candidates section, and adding an Olympics section to the site.
I first noticed changes were coming when the navigation went gray, or tanish, for me, which is the new color for the upcoming section.
Then I noticed the Popular and Upcoming tabs had moved below the category links in what appears to be an attempt to increase the visibility of the “upcoming” pages.
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Reddit Goes Open Source
Last night I wrote an article about Reddit’s big announcement party and the Tagging feature I discovered a little early. It turns out the feature “was the result of a prank, but we suspect tags will be one of the first features developed…”
Tonight is the announcement party where Reddit was supposed to deliver a surprise announcement. However, for some reason they have decided to release their surprise early through a video featuring the Reddit alien and a huge message.

REDDIT GOES OPEN SOURCE!
Reddit’s Secret Announcement Just Got Tagged
Some of you might have heard that Reddit has planned a small event tomorrow, June 18, in order to make some significant announcements about some new changes to Reddit.com. You can also see the announcement from time to time if you visit the site, which is down from time to time for the new changes.
5 Wordpress Plugins You’re Stupid Not to Use
There are hundreds of Wordpress Plugin posts on the web. Each explaining a few “must have” plugins you should install and use on your blog.
I have always been very big into plugins, but only if they really helped my site perform better in social media, SEO, or making my life as a webmaster easier.
I have always sort of gone off the assumption that if I use them, then everyone else must use too… right? However, the number of times that has proved itself to be false has inspired me to go ahead and do my own wordpress plugins post.
Here are 5 Wordpress plugins you are just stupid not to use.
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