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Digg is full of vapid, listmongering idiots

This is an angry post written in uncov style. I may submit it over there if it’s sufficiently full of bile and vitriol.
Digg: the little news aggregator and home for moronic comments that could. I’m finally giving up on it, yet not for some presumed lack of Kevin Rose fanboy love. This particular train has [...]

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Block Facebook feed pushes by idiot applications

Whoever designed the “templatized feed push” action at Facebook for developers should be put on notice. My wall today is cluttered with ridiculously inane application pushes, and most of them link back to Slide or RockYou home pages – enabling them to track people’s referrers from the links. What’s worse in the matter is that [...]

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Filtering based on YouTube collective idiocy

The hierarchy of Internet commenting continues to prove worthwhile and reinforce my point.
From Boy Genius Report, which pointed to DownloadSquad, which blogwhored back to the original source, StupidFilter will be an open source filter package for comments, based on YouTube stupidity:

The solution we’re creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity [...]

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The hierarchy of Internet commenting

I’ve made a few statements in the past – both in real life and online – about how certain Web sites seem to attract certain types of users and commenters. There’s a very clear relationship between the audience a site attracts and the comments contributed by users. One can clearly go from quality, interesting comments [...]

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