autorave/digg

From the page: "Ever wonder why some of your competitors frequently seem to get mentions on radio, in newspaper articles, magazine articles, and even occasionally on television (news or local programming)?

Hereâ€s a little strategy Iâ€ve been working on for about 6 months now that has resulted in some great offline mentions, and takes minimal effort."

Mark analyzes a Digg submission and learns from why it was buried.

Tamar talks about how social networks provide different ways for you to consume news.

A comparison of Digg traffic and CNN traffic.... CNN sends more!

Wikipedia page on the Drill Down... a great podcast about social media channels like Digg etc.

Dave Winer might be on to something when he talks about the next step in Digg clones: "I want starting a Digg-like community to be as easy as creating a weblog on blogger.com. Just fill in a form, click Submit and off we go. Let a thousand flowers bloom. Sure most will be ghost towns, there will be press articles talking about the abandoned communities, but I bet we look back in a couple of years and see the landscape in the blogosphere has changed yet again."

Patrick talks about why Digg isn't blocked by most webmasters: "Nothing gets feedback to a new website, service or article as quickly as hitting the Digg homepage. Within 24 hours you can have enough negative feedback to expose 90% of potential problems and, with the help of your programmer or writer, you can make quick decisions to improve your site in the long term."