Kevin Rose and Digg Can Listen (if you tweet enough)

Yesterday Digg users started seeing BP ads on Digg and I noticed a post about it over on OldDogg. Today Victor Barrera tweeted, "I wonder how much money @Digg is making off of BP? #shameless" I RTed (retweeted for those of you not on twitter) that and I replied @vtbarrera It just goes to show you just how heartless @kevinrose is. Use @Old_Dogg_ instead. #BP #Digg #Shameless. Thanks to clickfire and amabaie for the big Retweets.



Kevin Rose quickly replied "@TheDudeDean this is the first i've seen this, working w/the ad sales team now...." and @vtbarrera replied @TheDudeDean I'm glad to see @KevinRose looking into this. I know @Digg needs to profit, but this doesn't help them from a PR stance. 38 minutes later Digg Tweeted: "We monitor negative feedback on Digg Ads and the BP Digg Ad is being removed as it has crossed the acceptable threshold."



Digg's problems might be a whole lot worse than they seem, if no one in their ad sales team has the common sense to not take BP's blood money, I wonder who over there does have common sense at Digg. I'm still wondering who allowed Reddit to have a publisher account anyways. I think common sense isn't as common as it should be.

While Kevin Rose was briefly listening to me I gave him some more advice: @kevinrose Hey Kevin, would Phil Jackson have Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant sit on the bench on 4th Q when the games on the line? Kevin replied, "@TheDudeDean Depends, is Kobe injured? and is Jordan retired?" I replied, "@kevinrose You don't get it, you've got your all-stars sitting on the bench waiting to play. @kevinrose For example, everything I subbed on my last three months got at least 150-200 diggs, Yet Tony Hawk can't manage to get 50."

Kevin Rose and Digg can listen, if you tweet enough. I wonder how many tweets it will take for them to fix all of Digg V4's woes. I wonder how much common sense needs to be drilled into their heads to make them remember that Digg is a social media platform and get them to fix all the things they screwed up with Digg V4. But at least now, those pesky BP ads on Digg are gone thanks to a few Digg Users that cared. None of whom were Tony Hawk or Leo Laporte and two of them are currently banned.

Open Letter to Wired and Ars - Reddit Sponsors

Dear staff at Wired and Ars,

Long time reader, love your stuff, its all good. Been reading you guys for a very long time, arstechnica since 1999. I along with others submit Your(meaning Ars and Wired's) stories on Social Bookmarking sites.

For example:

• Samsung Fields Green, Ultra-Slim LCD TVs (Wired | Digg Front Pager | Made popular 9 days ago 424 Diggs) PR 4
• Ars Cracks TV Fringe Code (Ars - Digg Front Pager | Made popular Apr 8, 2009 | PR 4 | 726 Diggs)
• Avant-Garde Cellist Zeo Keating (Wired | not a Front Pager but a solid showing of votes)
• Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline (Wired | Made popular Jan 31, 2009 | 514 Diggs)
  

However I have to let You (meaning Ars and Wired) know whats going on over at one of these Social Bookmarking sites: Reddit. Reddit just recently banned a bunch of users on their social media site. No reasons were given, no warnings were issued. I guess My Grammar needs to improve( a joke from Ben's post about this issue, see below). Now I tried (Unsuccessfully) to contact reddit about this issue and received no response. This leaves me no recourse but to get in touch with You, Reddit's sponsors aka "Sister Sites".

You are going to rectify this situation. You are going to explain to Reddit just how the internet, community and social media work. You are going to teach them how to play fairly and nicely. And most importantly how to build a community. Reddit is going to restore accounts, apologize and send us Hoodies (if they don't have hoodies explain to Reddit why people on the net like them) and Schwag (and I want LOTS of Schwag, maybe an Ars and Wired Hoodie XXL).

This is going onto Digg and Twitter, so I am certain you will find this VERY quickly. The lesson here is not to mess with the Social Media Elite. By that I mean people that are Digg Elites and "Twitterati" who used to Digg your stuff and Tweet your stuff to 1000s of friends and in some cases 10,000s of friends. Consider this a very clear and transparent message. I am turning the tables on you. But unlike Reddit, I am letting You know that You are now black balled.

As "Sister Sites" of Reddit, I am certain you will quickly resolve this issue. I am sure my schwag; Hoodies (XXL remember?), Wired Subscription, T-Shirts, Wired Subscription, Mugs, Wired Subscription, hats, Wired Subscription, and Red Swingline Stapler are already in the snail mail.

Yours Truly,
The Dude Dean

PS Style, Epicurious, Concierge you guys are next.
PPS Digg and Mixx crew, Don't sub these two sites, I am declaring a "No-Fly Zone", if you see noobs subbing from these domains please Bury until reddit, wired and Ars make this right to G-Man, Ben, myself and all the others that were unfairly banned.

**Update**
@arstechnica Good bye Ars! @TheDudeDean Bye! Where are you going? :) @arstechnica I posted this 17 days ago and tweeted it to you: Open Letter to Wired and Ars: http://digg.com/d1sO8V?t @TheDudeDean Oh right. Bye! :)
Open Letter to Wired and Ars – Reddit Sponsors

The Bush Legacy - Miserable Failure 2.0

Why am I blogging about George W. Bush and The Bush Legacy on my humble little blog about SEO and SMO? I am bring back Miserable Failure to the internet. Miserable Failure is the real Bush Legacy.

Today Barak Obama was sworn into office as the 44th President of the United States of America. As PotUS44 he has a brand spanking new White House web page. As a patriotic American, I was looking at the new site while watching the Inauguartion and I went browsing for GW's bio page on the new site and got first Digg on his page and for good measure, I also put it on Newsvine, Reddit, Mixx, and Current.

The terms; "Miserable Failure", "The Bush Legacy", and "worst President ever" do not appear on this page. The opportunity cost on all these social media sites, for the most part, they only let you post a link if you do it first. So let's all bring back Miserable Failure to George W. Bush. He deserves it. Spread the word and give him a vote on your favorite social media site. While you are at it give it a retweet as well:

RT @TheDudeDean: Let's send Bush off in style. Please digg, fave and RT http://tinyurl.com/82p2ns #miserablefailure2.0

The Bush Legacy – Miserable Failure 2.0