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"content": "\u003cp>Shove over “Karma”-whores and make room — disillusioned Diggers want a seat on the piano bench. Media participation is, after all, an inalienable right! This was the sentiment at work last month when disgruntled fans of the social news site Digg began showing up suddenly and loudly on Reddit, a smaller social news site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case you’re one of those clever individuals who’ve as of yet been able to resist frittering away untold hours online, let me explain that community-powered news-aggregator sites like \u003ca href=\"http://www.digg.com\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Digg\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit\u003c/a> are online hubs of passionate, topical activity. Individuals post links to web content they find interesting, amusing or important, and fellow community members vote the links up or down, all the while discussing, disputing, dismissing or otherwise contributing further content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of sites like this around these days, some, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsvine.com\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">newsvine\u003c/a>, more newsy than others, and even traditional sites, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.netscape.com\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Netscape\u003c/a>, have begun incorporating elements of the social-news schema. But Digg vs. Reddit is a popular blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Digg+vs.+Reddit%22&btnG=Google+Search\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">meme\u003c/a> and the inadvertent competition between them takes top billing when it comes to comparing social news aggregators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digg is larger, and more technology-focused, while Reddit features more of a general-interest mix of technology, science, politics, and other news. Usually, however, if something’s at all worth noticing, it will show up in both places (and on sites like \u003ca href=\"http://www.boingboing.net\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Boing Boing\u003c/a> as well).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is good, because it means I’m not pressed to visit Digg in order to find out what the hell’s going on online. As someone who likes to chew the fat now and again, especially about certain newsworthy topics, I find myself checking the headlines on Reddit at least once a day, and speed-reading through the threads of mostly witty and occasionally informative comments posted by other users. But I rarely visit Digg. It’s just not for me. That’s not to say you won’t like it, though. If you and your Linux-savvy friends frequently debate preferred methodologies for “packing kernels,” then veer into fart joke territory, well — I’d say Digg is, in fact, THE news aggregator for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the two sites have quite different communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or at least they did until roughly a month ago, when members of the Digg community posted an HD-DVD decryption code and Digg administrators \u003ca href=\"http://blog.digg.com/?p=73\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">took it down\u003c/a>. Users posted it again. It came down. And again: up, down. This cycle continued throughout the day, until finally, Digg co-founder Kevin Rose \u003ca href=\"http://blog.digg.com/?p=74\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">responded\u003c/a> by saying Digg would stop removing the code and the posts related to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by then, many Digg users were either furious, or forlornly broken-hearted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite an overblown reaction in much of the unfortunately-termed “blogosphere,” none of this was all that surprising. The whole concept of a “social news” site is still relatively young, and to be fair, the folks who run these sites are forced to kind of make it up as they go along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digg’s team has been accused of tampering with content in the past, and Digg has also been the target of stealth marketing campaigns, designed by third parties to rig the system and get stories to the front page on behalf of paying clients. So: admin censored content? Not surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was surprising though (and just a little fascinating) was what happened next — on Reddit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diggers, angry that their participation in their usual community was being taken for granted, simply \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mj8f/comments/c1mlin\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">moved their discussion\u003c/a> over to Reddit. Slowly, new redditor after new redditor, each with a karma of “1” (what you get for registering) began showing up, ranting, analyzing, and posting links to the other site as evidence of this unfair turn of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redditors \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mj8f/comments?offset=1\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">chimed in on that discussion\u003c/a> — some being regulars of both sites, some interested in the Digg redactions on principle, some to make it thoroughly clear they were skeptical of this vocal new wave of folks from across the fence. There was much verbal eye-rolling on the part of long-time redditors, sure the migration would destroy the quality of Reddit posts, mods and comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after a few hours, the new redditors — members of the Digg influx — \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mpwr/comments\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">began to point out that they were new\u003c/a> to Reddit, look around at everything, and exclaim to each other about the differences. Hey! Look how much faster it loads! The comments are nested! More stories on the front page!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also had suggestions for redditors: someone should do something about this ugly user interface! Here’s a way you could improve the recommendation feature. Here’s another. This search is crap! Why can’t I have karma for commenting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was truly novel, and I was hooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digg’s demographic skews younger than Reddit’s, and both sites skew heavily male. I felt like a bunch of younger brothers had suddenly wandered into my room and started picking up the things on my dresser, turning them over and asking about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, without warning, my same-aged siblings started slapping their hands and \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mbhv/comments?offset=2\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">laying down some rules\u003c/a>. The recent-but-experienced redditors tended to answer questions help desk style, and a few entrenched redditors turned into blowhards, with one or another of the \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mpwr/comments/c1mrdo\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">old timers acting all gramps-y\u003c/a> and harkening back to the good ol’ days in early ’06 when there were only about five redditors anyway, and the only discussions were about atheism and libertarian ideology. (This would have been before Reddit’s fondness for cat pictures.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in doing so weren’t the redditors, even the grumpy ones, \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mpwr/comments/c1mu1i\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">displaying just a bit of Reddit pride\u003c/a>? Not unlike the Diggers might have done if we’d suddenly moved in over there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Digg and Reddit have fairly loyal communities. Members begin to feel “publicly at home” after repeatedly visiting their preferred site, more so than on a newspaper’s site or on a frequented blog, and more so in some ways, than on a standard social networking site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a community-driven news aggregator site you share and are shared with in public, without the benefit of your own “page.” In addition, there is no sharing without interaction — each action provokes at least one reaction (a mod or the absence of a mod). Your comments can be sorted by your nickname, your submissions can be viewed and voted on, and your ranking in the group is there for all to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a community for three reasons:\u003cbr> 1) nothing happens in isolation\u003cbr>2) the user’s repeated experiences and regular behavior have helped create the nuances, protocols, mores and culture of each site, and\u003cbr> 3) the integrated result of everyone’s participation IS the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How could pride and ownership not come into play?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suspect most of the visiting Diggers have by now returned to their usual water cooler, but out of curiosity, I called Kourosh Karimkhany, the General Manager of Wired Digital, which owns Wired News (AKA Wired.com) and Reddit.com. I asked what was up (if anything) with the traffic on Reddit since the “migration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His reply: “According to our stats, Reddit’s traffic did rise noticeably on May 1 and May 2, but it’s hard to tell whether it was a random spike or the result of a statistically significant jump tied to a specific event. Overall, Reddit’s traffic (page views and unique visits) have been doubling every four months and we don’t expect the trend to slow any time soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also told me that in late April, Reddit had received take-down notices regarding the same decryption code that Digg had removed. “We complied because we felt at the time that the code was still obscure and could be protected. 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The whole concept of a “social news” site is still relatively young, and to be fair, the folks who run these sites are forced to kind of make it up as they go along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digg’s team has been accused of tampering with content in the past, and Digg has also been the target of stealth marketing campaigns, designed by third parties to rig the system and get stories to the front page on behalf of paying clients. So: admin censored content? Not surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was surprising though (and just a little fascinating) was what happened next — on Reddit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diggers, angry that their participation in their usual community was being taken for granted, simply \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mj8f/comments/c1mlin\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">moved their discussion\u003c/a> over to Reddit. Slowly, new redditor after new redditor, each with a karma of “1” (what you get for registering) began showing up, ranting, analyzing, and posting links to the other site as evidence of this unfair turn of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redditors \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mj8f/comments?offset=1\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">chimed in on that discussion\u003c/a> — some being regulars of both sites, some interested in the Digg redactions on principle, some to make it thoroughly clear they were skeptical of this vocal new wave of folks from across the fence. There was much verbal eye-rolling on the part of long-time redditors, sure the migration would destroy the quality of Reddit posts, mods and comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after a few hours, the new redditors — members of the Digg influx — \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mpwr/comments\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">began to point out that they were new\u003c/a> to Reddit, look around at everything, and exclaim to each other about the differences. Hey! Look how much faster it loads! The comments are nested! More stories on the front page!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also had suggestions for redditors: someone should do something about this ugly user interface! Here’s a way you could improve the recommendation feature. Here’s another. This search is crap! Why can’t I have karma for commenting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was truly novel, and I was hooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digg’s demographic skews younger than Reddit’s, and both sites skew heavily male. I felt like a bunch of younger brothers had suddenly wandered into my room and started picking up the things on my dresser, turning them over and asking about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, without warning, my same-aged siblings started slapping their hands and \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mbhv/comments?offset=2\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">laying down some rules\u003c/a>. The recent-but-experienced redditors tended to answer questions help desk style, and a few entrenched redditors turned into blowhards, with one or another of the \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/info/1mpwr/comments/c1mrdo\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">old timers acting all gramps-y\u003c/a> and harkening back to the good ol’ days in early ’06 when there were only about five redditors anyway, and the only discussions were about atheism and libertarian ideology. 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And in most cases she does it with an understated humor that evokes themes far beyond what you’d expect to see in a television sketch. \u003ca>LisaNova Does Lonleygirl15\u003c/a>, her hilarious send up of the Lonelygirl15 phenomenon touches on feminism, cultural shortsightedness, and pompous up-and-coming advertising execs, nee celebrity pimps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES6kSKGv7dA\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">LisaNova Does P. Diddy\u003c/a> looks at celebrity from yet another angle, and \u003cb>LisaNova does Rush Limbaugh\u003c/b> from still another. Many of her made-up characters are morally flawed individuals. We sometimes get a peek inside the “industry,” as we do in the over the top \u003cb>LisaNova is a B!%@H!\u003c/b> These are fresh, hella funny videos with a solid narrative structure and semi-professional production values. They also feature excellent acting by a rotating cast that includes a familiar face now and then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For some great acting, watch \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlRLYR3Di4M\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Passionate About the Lips\u003c/a> in which Lisa solicits feedback on her plan to enter a competition to dance on stage with the Flaming Lips. She plays a “Dalmatian-Ben-Franklin,” and watching her friends’ reaction to her performance is painful and hilarious. She won, btw, and she and her friends danced on stage with the Lips in December.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The combination of light and dark, humor and insight evident in these short videos brings to mind the work of another woman who offered her characters often-missed opportunities for grace: Flannery O’Connor. And now it seems, LisaNova’s own experience in this buzzword-filled atmosphere of user-generated media is bringing new meaning to O’Connor’s beautifully turned phrase “Everything that Rises Must Converge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because LisaNova — whose real name is Lisa Donovan — can now be seen on \u003cb>MADtv\u003c/b>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just ten months, she’s built a huge following online, with her videos on YouTube consistently ranking among the most viewed. That popularity has suddenly opened doors for her that were previously shut. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 26-year old Donovan’s real-life back-story includes moving to L.A. from Colorado to become an actress, auditioning for \u003cb>MADtv\u003c/b>, getting rejected, then starting her own production company. 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Why can no one in the mainstream media or in the city of Boston admit this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CNN and \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teh+internets\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">teh Internets\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We now turn to a little \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rubm-ttR-Lw\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">irresponsible reporting\u003c/a> by Paula Zahn and company over at CNN. Media outlets love a good poll. In fact, most, if not all pollsters include a few questions that they hope will provide a soundbyte for news reporters, who throw them in as supporting evidence for a trend story or context for a news item. 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The ultimate troll, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lolz\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">LOLZ\u003c/a>!! It’s true, it’s hilarious, but it’s also very very sad. Neither Boston nor CNN officials are willing to admit their mistakes. The state of Massachusetts could easily ruin the lives of two individuals who are at the bottom of the heap of responsibility, despite the fact that two million dollars in fines have already been paid. And CNN will continue to sensationalize extremists to garner more ratings, while not acknowledging shoddy research and reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess I’ll just keep getting more of my news from the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Now, it looks like it’s back to the daily grind for them — which involves hip hop beats and gritty urban visuals, demonstrating their ability to exploit youth culture for commercial purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Patsies\u003c/b>\u003cbr>We were introduced to the delightful duo of Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens who used their first — and hopefully not last — \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">press conference\u003c/a> to wax at length about hairstyles and their place in history, and to not so subtly convey their opinion on their arrest for pranking the city of Boston. The pair were later bailed out by friends and family, NOT by Interference, the company that hired them. Two months later, Attorney General Coakley keeps Berdovsky and Stevens under the threat of jail time for installing the setups around the city. Seriously?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a hoax, and it’s not funny,” was the response from Governor Deval Patrick after the scare was over. Actually, it WASN’T a hoax — nobody involved intended for these displays to be mistaken for bombs. Especially since similar devices were planted in cities all around the country and nobody else had a bomb scare. And since pictures of the devices were up on \u003ca href=\"http//digg.com\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Digg\u003c/a> for quite a while before the scare and continue to be. And I think we can all agree assuming the devices were bombs WAS funny. Why can no one in the mainstream media or in the city of Boston admit this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CNN and \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teh+internets\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">teh Internets\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We now turn to a little \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rubm-ttR-Lw\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">irresponsible reporting\u003c/a> by Paula Zahn and company over at CNN. Media outlets love a good poll. In fact, most, if not all pollsters include a few questions that they hope will provide a soundbyte for news reporters, who throw them in as supporting evidence for a trend story or context for a news item. Let me demonstrate: 76 percent of six year olds choose a picture of \u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6470000/newsid_6471200/6471259.stm\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Knut\u003c/a> over a picture of their mother, demonstrating a surprising trend amongst youngsters in favor of polar bears. Experts predict that one day, polar bears will mother all six year olds. Or, a Pit Bull attacked its owner, a 44-year-old woman in Poughkeepsie yesterday. Research shows that Pit Bulls attack 112 women in their forties from Poughkeepsie each year, making Poughkeepsie the most dangerous place for forty-something female Pit Bull owners in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s no surprise that CNN used the occasion of a new poll on 9/11 to do a segment on conspiracy theories, always a popular draw. According to the recent poll — which is given no source or description of methodology — one in every three Americans do not believe the terror attacks were the work of America’s enemies, but instead, believe they were some sort of inside job. Paula Zahn goes on to say that an even smaller percentage believe an even uglier truth. This “smaller percentage” goes without an actual number of course — there is no number, it’s just an excuse for a crackpot conspiracy theory segment!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conspiracy theory — found in crevices on the Internet — claims Jews are behind the 9/11 attacks. Surprise! Farfetched anti-Semitic theories abound online! The actual ugly truth here is that CNN uses the parody conspiracy site \u003ca href=\"http://www.jewsdidwtc.com/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">jewsdidwtc.com\u003c/a> as a LEGITIMATE source for the piece, proof of the legions out there who buy into this theory. 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Kate can’t make up her mind about anything, and the writers push her between extremes of crying and acting tough under the guise of “pretty = interesting.” Sawyer is clearly a robot or alien trying his damnedest to imitate a laidback Southern bad boy. He seems to have an endless supply of forced, cutesy names for everyone he meets, though it seems like he could save himself the effort and refer to everyone with, “Hey there, Grimy.” The pair’s ill-fated rescue mission to save Jack is pretty much inevitable, with the only question being how much bickering over who comes along, and stiff, wooden colloquialisms will pop up on the way. The Kate and Sawyer dynamic has always struck me as more sibling rivalry than sexual tension, so I find their whole romance plot pretty unbearable and forced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for the record, I just don’t have the capacity to care about the plight of The Others. 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These vapid, lab-tested-attractive two seemed destined for their own \u003cb>Lost\u003c/b> spin off sitcom about how all she ever cooks is coconuts, and he never cleans up around the tent, but dang if they don’t love each other silly. I’m glad these two are gone for the moment, but I can’t forget that the writers actually tried to go there. My faith has been shaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s time for action, people; enough dragging it out. The show needs to be reined in and controlled. Let’s get rid of certain options (say, the polar bears) and commit to going forward with other definite plot points to get some answers. I think it’s time for a big moment. For instance, Hurley stumbles into a new hatch, a.k.a. “The Filing Hatch” and spends the episode reading all about \u003ca href=\"http://www.thehansofoundation.org\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hanso Foundation\u003c/a> and perusing document after document about Ben and Company — birth certificates, diaries, the works. 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