Kenya Digg It?
It’s not everyday I get to brush off the old “Kenya dig it?” joke. Usually once a year I find myself able to use it. Usually after the Boston marathon, since the winner always seems to be from Kenya. Other than marathon related instances the l last encountered the deliciously awful pun in September of 2005 at Peet’s.
And then there was today…
Digg users showed how completely user reliant bookmarking sites can be brought to its knees today as the appearance of a HD-DVD copyright Hex code overflowed the website. For the last few hours, the front page of Digg has been nothing but stories featuring the sequence of numbers and letters. Users fled to other sights like reddit when their submissions were deleted. Some digg users were even banned.
Due to the chaos, Digg even had to shut down story submissions for a while.