Really cool that we made the front page of digg.

Thanks to Oculus for taking the lead on getting the site back up while I was away at dinner on Friday. It wasn't easy.

Noticed that a few more people linked in, including a wired.com/blog.

Awesome, we totally felt the digg effect. It really sucks when it's a site you actually frequent...

By the way, we're at 559 diggs so far! Seeing the site down was painful.. but a good pain I'd say.

GG, rap. How did your article showball from 5 to 14 to hundreds of diggs. Is having a lot of friends on digg the key?

I'm thinking it was because it was a story that people cared about.

@ Midnight: having friends will help jump start the digg. For instance, I've submitted breaking news before anyone else, but because other people that submitted the news later had friends that actively dugg friends' content, their stories got to the front page. As Mintz suggests, nothing gets to the front page if the digg culture doesn't want it there. So, content is key. Friends help. That's why certain small communities can occasionally make the front page of digg. The same dozen or so friends digg at the same time, making a story seem popular.

Holy cow. 60.15% percent of all visitors in the last few days saw this site using Firefox. We're doing about 88,000 hits per day. 29.60% of the site visitors use IE. 7% use Safari. 85.79% have a high-speed internet connection.

Twas an interesting story.

Ars showing some lurve:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/2/4/6891

It gets mentioned again in a another digg article: http://digg.com/gaming_news/EB_games_charging_people_7_99_for_used_Burger_King_Pocket_Bike_Racer

They are actually using an old story that they did on milblogging and Midnight several months ago. He's face is back on there with links to his blog and our site.

Midnight = Face of Milblogging

Then Milblogging needs a facelift.

Clearly.