Via Digg and Cracked, here’s the first safe-for-work minute of “Who’s Nailin’ Paylin”. The acting (and setup, and set for that matter) is hilariously awful:
Here’s another PG-rated clip. It features a hot-and-bothered Hillary Clinton uttering the classic line, “I’m so tired of bipartisanship. Why can’t we just be bi?”
The film is produced by Hustler, which, of course, is owned the creepy and politically-active Larry Flynt. Given Mr. Flynt’s leftward leaning, I’d imagine that this production doesn’t, you know, flatter Governor Palin.
These pieces reminded me of this more amusing take on bad porn acting starring Nathan Fillion. Also entirely work-safe.
Via Digg (very crass comments on that story–Digg users are such asshats), here’s a “where are they now” slideshow on 80s supermodels. I somehow managed to grit my teeth and get through it (my favourite was also Paulina Porizkova). I was fascinated by the fact that I knew the name of pretty much every single model.
Compare that with today. I can’t name a single supermodel under the age of 30. I don’t pay as much attention to the world of celebrity as I once did, but you’d think I’d know a few. What happened in the ensuing 20 years? Am I correct in saying that supermodels are less culturally prominent than they once were?
I only have one theory, and it’s not a very good one. Increasingly, actors, singers and athletes are taking the advertising dollars that used to be spent on the (wholly manufactured, it must be said) supermodels. I feel like I see a lot more actors selling watches and perfume when I open a magazine than I used to.
As regular readers know, we’re writing this book about social media marketing. I’m currently working on the chapter on social news and bookmarking. As part of my research, I’m gathering some real-world numbers about Digg, and just how big the Digg Effect actually is.
To that end, I’m running a survey. Has your site ever been ‘Dugg’? That is, has it ever been featured on the front page of Digg, and suffered a torrent of visitors as a result?
It requires you to look in your stats program (Google Analytics or whatever), and determine just how many visitors arrived from Digg on the day you were Dugg. I’m also asking for the URL of the page on your site that was Dugg, to confirm each entry. If you don’t know how to do this, send me an email and I’ll explain.
As an example, Get a First Life was Dugg on January 21, 2007 and received 10,829 visitors from Digg.
I plan to publish the results (though not your name or email address, obviously) on this site and possibly in the book. So you’re disclosing this data point for the world to see.
It’s okay if your site crashed–I’m interested in how many visitors you actually captured and reported in Google Analytics or your stats program of choice.
UPDATE: I’m only going to accept five submissions per website, to ensure one particular topic or site doesn’t bias the results too much.
And There’s a Prize
As an enticement, one lucky submitter will receive one of the brand-new iPod Shuffles I’ve got kicking around the house. They’ve become a common speaker gift, so I’ve got two or three of them at the moment. I probably won’t get more than 20 or 30 submissions, so your odds of winning are excellent.
If you don’t want the Shuffle, I’ll give $50 to the charity of your choice.
I’ve read speculation that on social marketing services like Digg and StumbleUpon, the more ‘friends’ you have, the more juice your account has to promote things you bookmark. I gather Digg recently made some improvements to the ’social’ part of their service. I’ve recently received a number email notifications of friend requests from the service, which never used to happen.
In any case, will you be my friend? Uh, if you friend me, I’ll friend you. We’ll be a happy social bookmarking family. You can do so over at my StumbleUpon and Digg profiles.
I’m a Canadian Digg user (and in a small minority, as you might expect). I have a fleeting interest in American politics, but I don’t give two depreciated American pennies about a second tier Republican who’s struck the fancy of a few wired libertarians.
Because of Paul’s popularity among Digg users, hilariously mundane Ron Paul stories frequently pollute Digg’s front page. I’ve had enough, so here’s an RSS feed for Digg’s popular stories that filters out all the Ron Paul-related silliness. If I knew how, I’d produce a GreaseMonkey script that did the same thing.
I’m not sure about this service, so I’m going to withhold judgement for the moment. I’m not a big Twitter user, nor am I a huge gossip, so I’m sure how I’d use Truemors.
Maybe they should have launched a whole network of very vertical rumour sites, like http://britney.truemors.com or http://hilaryclinton.truemors? Then you could get the otaku for a particular topic to coalesce around it in a very targeted way. Mind you, otaku already have their own communties where they talk about rumors along with everything else. So, I’m not quite sure where Truemors fits in.
Truemors has Digg-like voting where you push rumours up and down the page. To try it out, I posted a rumour linking to a DeSmogBlog story. It’s not really a rumour, but I couldn’t think of any at the moment and didn’t want to make one up (Beatles reunion tour? Germany bisecting again?). I ‘dugg’ the rumour up, and asked Julie to do the same on her computer.
As it turns out, Julie couldn’t vote the rumour up. She got a message saying that she’d already voted on that story. I can only assume (and somebody can correct my ignorant assumption here) that Truemors is using IP addresses to track votes. They’re also using cookies (I just checked in Firefox), but apparently IP addresses trump cookies, or something.
That doesn’t happen with Digg, or other voting sites, and it shouldn’t. Otherwise roommates or families or (in some cases) coworkers couldn’t ever vote up the same stuff. I assume it’s just a bug they need to work out.
UPDATE #2: Huh, Truemors already killed the aforementioned post. It pretty much said “Truemors counts votes based on IP addresses, so we can’t vote from two different computers on the same IP address. Bummer.”
That kind of blows. If they’re going to heavily moderate content (particularly content which points out bugs in their system), then where are their community guidelines articulating their moderation policy? Did I violate their terms of use?
