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Well, I was going to do about how now is the best time for getting into GTD (watch for it … its still coming) — but the whole Digg controversy thing isn’t going away, so I’m going to stay with it until it does.

Having woke up this morning, there has been an utter explosion of news, commentary, and coverage over this most recent spate at Digg. Unlike ForeverGeek, Aliwood, or any other phenomena, the particular issue of the top 20 or 30 diggers ‘circle-digging’ each other (intentionally or no) seems to have really gone supernova, literally, over the course of less than 24h.

The Timeline

1. jesusphreak posts his article on his observation that FP posts seem to be dominated by the Top20

2. a firestorm of commentary erupts on Digg, with rumblings of group-marking all top20 submissions as “lame” or to be “buried”.
3. the original article is marked as innacurate, and gets Dugg into the stratosphere at the same time

4. the sheer volume of comments prompts Kevin Rose to issue an edict proclamation statement over how Digg will change its algorithm

5. top digger p9 leaves Digg amongst the implied accusation that he is gaming Digg.

6. news gets picked up by TechCrunch

7. coverage bursts into conflagatory orgy of commentary, news, finger wagging, and of course titles which play on the name “digg” (see below)

With the enormous amount of coverage TechCrunch gets on its own, I think it was the ‘tipping point’ to all the other major blogs / news sources picking it up.

So far the stories have hit:

• Guardian Unlimited: “Digg Confronts Circle-Digging Problem”
• Rough Type: “Undiggnified”
• Search Engine Watch: Digg to Change System to Stem Gaming
• ZDNet: Digital Micromarkets: Why Digg fraud Google bombing and Wikipedia vandalism will not be stopped
• Techmeme: Digg Friends
• CNN Money: Digg Erupts Over Who Controls the Headlines
• Wired: Changes at Digg Increase Diversity, Decrease Rigging

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