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Official Publisher Profiles on Digg One Year Later: Followers up 720%

Adam Sherk

It has been a year since I took at look at the followers and activity of News Sites on the New Digg so I thought I would see how those official profiles are faring today. The Wall Street Journal 52,031 9,546 445%. 14 The Wall Street Journal 17 15. 8/10/11 Diggs by Publisher. 27 The Wall Street Journal 435 281 55% 1 1.

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News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? by Adam Sherk on August 4, 2010 The new Digg has gotten a lot of attention for the opportunities it creates for publishers (see ReadWriteWeb and BlueGlass for details).

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Citizen Journalism: Who is a Journalist Today?

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Citizen journalism doesn’t only apply to major political events or disasters. Citizen journalism is one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business right now. Many newsrooms are implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative. Another online news outlet that is climbing up the ranks fast is the Huffington Post.

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Bloggers: Would You Rather Be First Or Right?

SocMed Sean

So, can we just apply the same tenets of journalism to blogging? So, can we just apply the same tenets of journalism to blogging? I’d love to hear your feedback on whether you’d rather be first or right when breaking news on your blog. –Sean Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Email this to a friend?

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How Social Bookmarking Works [Plus 7 Tools To Help You Do It]

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Trending topics on Digg. Digg launched in its current form in 2012, and is a long-running news aggregator that many believe was the inspiration for Reddit. In addition to curating top trending stories, Digg also allows users to publish their own articles on the platform. Rank your content. Free to use.

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Why Reddit Continues to be Relevant

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According to Digg’s top brass, these changes were meant to bring in more revenue to the site, giving corporations and companies more control over content and more exposure for their own content. However, this went against what many people felt was the point of Digg: allowing anyone to potentially make the front page of the site.

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The Question Of Quora

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Answers can be voted up and down (ala Digg ) and you have the ability to follow the individuals and topics that are of interest to you. journalism. Over the past little while, a new online platform has been gaining ground, momentum and attention. It's called Quora. At it's core, Quora is a question and answer service. albert sheu.

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