I used to be addicted to blogging. Blogging made me spend a lot of time browsing around the blogs on the internet, made new friends, found out how to create a good and interesting kind of blog, how to put traffic to the blog and be happy to see when people come across to my blog and visit for a look or comment. These blogging activities had led me to a popular website called digg.com or say “Digg”. Digg is a website for people to share links content resources (e.g., pictures, movies, documents, stories, web pages) on the Internet and put it into a particular keyword or “tag”. Not only that, Digg also allows registered users to use two unique things, digging or burying facility while commenting. Dig simply means users put one point up to the posting and burry means not to vote, the more dig points or dugg a story or post gets the higher rank it will get. So, the most dugg story will get the highest rank, it means a dignity to be put on the front page of digg.com website, it is amazingly cool.
As far as I understood first time about idea of digg.com website is to help blogger put more traffic on the blogs by submitting resources that linked to their blogs and to get dugg by other user and to get a possibility sit on the digg.com front page. So, I decided to register to digg.com website and start digging. From this, I started publishing a lot of resources into my blog (e.g., my programming codes, my joke stories, or movies from youtube.com that I have embedded into my blog) and submit and share the links and put them in a particular category on Digg website.
I have a bad story of making a joke that I published it to my blog. Yeah.. then I made a joke and I dig the link in Digg, afterwards, I started punching F5 button to refresh my WordPress dashboard to see the traffic stream from Digg down to joke story in my blog. Unfortunately, the traffic had never come and the Digg front page had never happened, there were only couple visits to my blog and one of them said, “lame story, Man!, Burry!” it was killing me instantly and that was bizarre. Lately, I found out that I have put my joke story into the wrong category, means that I was sharing my joke story to people/users who want to read serious news not a lame joke one. It is a good lesson for me to tag resources with the most proper category or keyword before publish it.
Finally, I understand through my entire blogging with Digg, is a kind of way to do social tagging, by sharing and categorizing resources in a particular keyword or label. People read what we share and we can read what people share. Social tagging is amazingly a beautiful discovery for people in this modern world. People come from different place over the globe, with various interest and resources, blending into a social tagging system, and they link themselves to others through tags. It’s beautiful.
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