Gnip provides an API layer to get access to data on some high-volume data publishers (Twitter, most famously).

They have both free and paid plans (it costs $ to get access to the full Twitter firehose).

Good introductory news story about Diggnation. What they don't say is the show is 90% about girls, potty-humor, and alcohol - 10% technology news.

Quoted: Alex Albrecht, one of the hosts of the popular video podcast Diggnation, wishes he'd picked a different beer. The selection he chose "tastes like beef jerky," he complains as he prepares for this week's show. "This is the worst beer ever," agrees his co-host, Kevin Rose.

Crazy 5 camera recording of Diggnation - you can click on any camera view to make it the main screen. I wonder if they could take the average of the community selection to be the "default" camera selection for the broadcast show?

Rand's speculation on elements of a social ranking algorithm.

Quoted: At work today, Matt noted that he found Digg's algorithm far more interesting than Google's. I was shocked - after all, Digg isn't nearly as complex or widely used as Google, but with its rising popularity in the tech space, I could, at least, empathize with why he might feel that way. I also took it as a challenge to expose all the possible elements that might be in an algorithm at ...

Archive of the most popular stories on Dig, by date.

Quoted: Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users

Reddit's open source project.

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A new video by the creator of The Machine is Using Us. This one is long (1 hour).

Quoted: presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to ...

A fairly negative review of Digg's new recommendation algorithm.

Quoted: The [recommendation] Engine identifies Diggers like you to present stuff you might like, so keep Digging to get better recommendations.

Quoted: Digg's long awaited recommendation engine is now live for some users, which luckily includes me. It's time to take a look at what this new feature brings to