"Dear entire mainstream media: Please stop referring to reddit as "small". The team may be small; the site is anything but." (KeyserSosa, Reddit guy)

via the new "the home page"

Apparently, I'm on Digg@Digg.com's email distro list. News to me.

Still waiting to see what loads when you click the 'Start Digging' button. It's most likely another apologetic failure message.

Dear my Digg friends,

I'm turning over a new leaf on Digg. It's a leaf I should have turned over a long time ago; I've been like the James Spader of Digg.

I currently have 98 Digg friends, and if you looked at my profile a little while ago that number looked a lot higher, which was of no benefit to me.

As many a close Digg confidant has told me, it's better to have a select group of mutual friends who consistently digg your content, rather then a gaggle of friends (mostly non-mutual) who don't, and offer you nothing.

Reflects life in general, but that's another conversation for another time.

Moving forward, I'm aspiring to the former - see the updated note on my profile (or I'll just tell you, it reads: now practicing the ancient art of digging my mutuals).

So if you're active on Digg - and by the way, I still intend to be very active, no question - and you want to be mutual friends, add me.

And for those of you who aren't on Digg, but aspire to, there's a free lesson - maybe now it won't take you a year to figure out how to do it right, like me.

MH

Mike Hayes on Digg

Great line from the classic episode The Betrayal. Right up there with vile weed!

Well, a few folks in the Digg community didn't quite get the joke when I posted that Newmanism on a link to an infographic comparing the U.S. and U.K. postal services...