Think Digg
You may have noticed the “Digg It!” links at the bottom of some of our posts. Digg, for those of you who don’t already know, is a website where anyone can submit links and descriptions of news items they think are interesting. Users then “digg” items they like. Items with the most “diggs” get promoted to the front page where they get a lot of exposure.
We get a lot of emails asking us how you can get the information on Think Progress to an even larger audience. One answer: start digging posts you like. Here’s how to get started:
1. Join Digg. You can register here.
2. Start Digging. If you see a “Digg It!” link on a Think Progress post you like, click it and Digg the story. If you like a Think Progress post and you don’t see a “Digg It!” link, you can submit it youself.
3. Make friends. Digg is a social content website. You can make “friends” and keep track of the content they submit. My username is jlegum.
If you want to be friends with other ThinkProgress users, leave your username in the comments section. If you like Digg, you should also check out Reddit and Netscape — two sites that are doing similar stuff.
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I can digg it.
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:25 amGet a list of liberal “friends” and keep track of what they read and think? Haven’t we already hired the NSA to do this for us?
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:27 amMy profile name is Rossmcd.
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:31 am… Love the old-school nintendo links they have on there!
Username: ronintetsuro
Keep on diggin’ in the free world!
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:46 amWitch1….signing in
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:52 amRight on, I’m on it!
-B
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:05 pmAnother incredible waste of time and resources.
Carolyn Kay
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:12 pmMakeThemAccountable.com
I’m BloodJunkie on Digg. Feel free to link up with me.
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:16 pmYou should maybe consider adding linking into Reddit as well. It’s usually a faster-moving aggregator, with more political content. Might be worth it for thinkprogress.
Cheers,
-d
August 23rd, 2006 at 2:19 pmUseful feature. I’m a staunch Digg supporter and ThinkProgress reader. My Digg username is: Attila
August 23rd, 2006 at 2:39 pmI’ll have my avatar talk to your avatar about getting a meetup going where we can liberate the cyber world. Jesus, people.
August 23rd, 2006 at 2:41 pmMy username on Digg is 4crimson
August 23rd, 2006 at 2:50 pmJust an FYI, instead of having Digg, Reddit, and Netscape links at the bottom of every post, you can just use Bookmark It!. One link supports multiple social bookmarking sites:
http://bookmarkit.org
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:09 pmThis is what I got when I [simply] tried to post my ‘digg’ member name and some comments about the [liberal/progressive] majority there at digg.com that should welcome people from ThinkProgress.
“Sorry, but your comment has been flagged by the spam filter running on this blog: this might be an error, in which case all apologies. Your comment will be presented to the blog admin who will be able to restore it immediately.
You may want to contact the blog admin via e-mail to notify him.”.
That doesn’t make much sense. If ” Your comment will be presented to the blog admin who will be able to restore it immediately” then why would I have to contact the blog admin separately? It sounds to me like [the blog admin] should see “immediately” that there is nothing wrong and my comment should be posted here by now !
Excuse me, but there was ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with the comment I’m trying to post.
Your spam filter is flawed. Also you really should provide a link to contact the “blog admin’ to whom it was suggested I contact. I used the “Contact Us” link, but there was no way to contact a specific “Blog admin”. I hope it gets to the right person.
Unfortunately this isn’t the first time I’ve run into problems using this web site.
I hope that my comment gets posted here soon. Not nearly as many people look at comments from older items as they do that day’s news items. Also the further down a thread a comment is, the fewer people see it.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:24 pmYour opinions are very interesting and helpful. May I subscribe to your newsletter?
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:31 pmOK, I spaced on that one.
Sorry I’m a bit* stressed lately.
Why wait for the blog admin….. My digg username is “daggett”.
*A serious understatement.
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:37 pmUsername: Take a wild guess.
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:09 pmaterkel on digg
August 24th, 2006 at 11:16 am[…] I’m on a lot of political email lists. A lot.  WIth increasing frequency, these emails from politicians and political groups are asking recipients to vote for their content on social news sites like Digg in addition to asking me for money or to write a letter to the editor or call talk radio. Here is an example of a typical call to action. […]
October 5th, 2006 at 7:48 pm