Digg: 9 New Stories, 8 Duplicates.
The success of an online community is, in many ways, based on the willingness of its members to abide by some level of accepted rules. In the world of social media, this normally means no duplicate submissions. This, apparently, is not happening over at Digg. Just a recent snapshot of the top 9 stories in the Political News section, 8 of which are story duplicates. The highlighting points out which of the stories are duplicates and to what extent. (Lighter = less duplicate, darker = more duplicate). To be more precise… 8 of 9 are about the same story. 6 of 9 say the same thing about that story. 3 of 9 are identical to at least 1 of the other stories. This is definitely improvable: Solving the Duplicate Submission Problem No tags for this...
Rails Programmer Throws Down the Gauntlet: PWND by PHP!
If you did not know already, I have a particular distaste for Ruby on Rails. Honestly, I really just have a distaste for the grotesque amount of buzz it has received relative to its ability to impact the web. Nevertheless, I did find a recent exchange on the web 2.0 site Dzone very humorous. An Rails nut writes Here’s something that really shows how Rails can shine. Don’t want to start a war, but show me that in Java or PHP! about a 1-line world time server clock using Ruby on Rails. He fails to mention that… It really takes 3 lines It requires installing an additional library In beautiful irony, another user posts this response. The same thing, in PHP, that really only takes 1 line of code, and requires no additional libraries. Sweet Sweet PHP...
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