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Well I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while so here it is.  I’m soooooooo glad Digg.com is back to what it was like pre-election mania.  Once the two candidates were known it went crazy.  For those of you that don’t know let me give a quick explanation of how Digg works.  The site is all user generated content, if you find a story/video/picture/etc that you like on the internet, you can go and submit it to Digg.  From there other people will see the story and if they like it they will “Digg” it.  The stories that get the most Digg’s get moved to the front page for more people to see, and that is a LOT of people.  In the United States it is the 128′th most popular site.  I don’t know what kind of numbers that turns into, but its a large number.  Okay so now hopefully you have an idea about the site in general, back to the elections.  In the few months coming up to the elections you could not go to Digg.com without seeing at least 7 out of 10 stories on the front page saying how great Obama was and how terrible of a person John McCain or Sarah Palin were.  There was one Pro-McCain article that ever made it to the top 10 in the months leading up to the election from what I saw and I check the site on average 6-8 times a day to see whats going on.  I heard an article from an Obama staffer saying that this was part of their strategy that made it really frustrating.  Pretty much the person said they had a huge staff that their entire job was to go around to sites like this and others on the Internet and make sure anything Pro-Obama and Anti-McCain was seen by more and more people.  Funny how it worked but 2 days after the election was over you really stopped seeing most of the political stories pop up on Digg.  What a coincidence.  You will still catch one here and there which are most likely legitimate stories that have been moved to the front page from real users compared to the way it was pre-election.  Either way I’m just glad all that crap is over and now Digg is finally back to more interesting things, it was generally a pretty techie site where you could find a lot of good info on whats going on in the technology world.  Since its massive growth in popularity in the time that I have been following the site (2-3 years) you start to see more non-tech stuff on there which isn’t a bad thing as you see a lot of funny stuff there too.  The popularity of the site lead to the creation of the VidCast DiggNation which if I am correct is the most popluar podcast/vidcast on the Internet, which has also led to the creation of Rev3 (if I have all my facts straight).  Okay well now I just feel like I’m blabbing but I’m just happy Digg is back, on to other things.  

How about them Boilermakers.  Good send off for some important people to Purdue.  Joe Tiller, Curtis Painter, and Kory Sheets (along with others) coached/played their last game for Purdue on Saturday and they went out in style by absolutely dominating the Hoosiers 62-10.  It was a great day in general, even my Hoosier friends had fun despite the cold.  We drank a lot of whiskey and rum, and even slapped the bag a few times.  There was a cougar sighting and somebody almost got in a fight, that’s a good tailgate!  Other good Boilermaker news is that the Basketball team is still undefeated going into the NIT tourney this week and Drew Brees is currently tearing apart the Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football.  All is good right now.

Quick thought as I’ve got MNF audio on in the background as I write this, this new Jim Carrey movie is a terrible idea.  Yes Man is what is is called I think, and somebody brought this comment up over the weekend but I forget who, so credit to you if you are reading this.  Is this not the same movie as Liar Liar except that he has to say Yes to everything, from what I remember Liar Liar pretty much sucked and this looks like the exact same thing.  I really like Jim Carrey but what was he thinking doing this movie?

Back to football, Colts were awesome last night!!!  BOHICA San Diego and Phillip Rivers.  Thats about all that needs to be said about that I think.  

Hope everybody is excited for Thanksgiving this week, I know I am, it is a great week in general with all the activities that go on between Wednesday night, Thanksgiving itself and the rest of the weekend.  I need to get a Christmas tree this weekend for my apartment.  Laurel gave me a great idea to go check on Black Friday at one of the local places, so hopefully I’ll have a tree when I make it back to Indy this weekend.  

Enough for now, I’ll try to get in another post or two during the week but I’ve got a lot of stuff going on so not sure when I’ll get to it.  Thanks for checking out colinnicol.com the webs 7,721,398th most popular site!