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	<title>The Buzz Media &#187; Digg</title>
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		<title>Why I Hate Social News Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This is an anti-social-news site venting post. If that will upset you, please click away.
I have posted before about why I hate Digg, but to be fair, I hate all social news sites that rely exclusively on users up-voting stories.
I recently had my account at reddit banned out of thin air, so when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is Why I Hate Digg</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a small time publisher Digg drives me crazy.
The idea behind Digg is that &#8220;the people&#8221; will decide which content is important and which isn&#8217;t by voting on stories. I think this designed likely worked exactly as intended for the first month Digg went live and has since turned into a political dance of bullshit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digg Rewrite Drops MySQL in Favor of NoSQL Apache Cassandra Backend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Quinn from Digg recently posted on the Digg blog about Digg&#8217;s ongoing rewrite of the entire site &#8212; both front end and back end.
One of the biggest performance and growth challenges that John cited for Digg was growing it&#8217;s MySQL-based relationship DB across different data centers and keeping the site performant and in sync [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digg is Gamed by Retardation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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Digg is an entertaining site, much like reading The Superficial is. I don&#8217;t turn to Digg for real news or hot topics unless I feel in the mood to pour through a 10:1 ratio of stupid shit to real honest to god interesting content.
Today I saw the &#8220;Top in All&#8221; list above and thought &#8220;Oh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 WordPress Tips for Surviving Slashdot, Digg, Reddit or StumbleUpon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Riyad Kalla</dc:creator>
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We got a story on the front page of Slashdot&#8230; and got our assess handed to us literally 2mins later with server load jumping from 0.56 to 10 and then off into the 40s where the server just decided to melt instead of host pages.
During the last few hours we&#8217;ve been troubleshooting what went wrong [...]]]></description>
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