DIGG it, or not!

Digg for sale!

The rumours were already longer in the press. What's the story

There is a note that investment bank Allen & Company have received the project to sell the company for 300 million dollar, probably to the highest bid.
Is this worth it. In figures and spreadsheets perhaps not, but as we already know and learned over the past years, this doesn't really count.
It completely depends on the buyer and how much " back to the future" they achieve by buying the " users" from Digg!

So an interesting case will follow soon.

This will probably also mean that pownce will receive the full attention after the sale!

The best wishes to the Digg guys may be in place for now, see what happens.

Digg this

How far do you go when you are one of the leading websites on the world on free speech!!

Digg decided yesterday to follow up on a request to remove illegal content, meaning a link that to the decryption key for HD DVD's.
Within minutes after deleting the story came again and again and again! The users simply took over the site for hours! This is what you call "user generated content"!

After a while CEO Jay Adelson wrote a post about the commotion, he was complaining about why the users acted as they did and tried to explain why Digg deleted the files! http://blog.digg.com/?p=73

This got the fire started again and worse! 50.000+ users wrote or commented on the code issue!

Kevin Rose added his post after this and wrote they will respect the freedom of speech even if this will get Digg intp lawsuit problems.
Very heroic response, great compliments to Digg!!
So now we probably all have to support the Digg team with money for the upcoming lawsuit!
Don't worry, freedom of speech is worth a lot to many people and Digg makes this possible! So face the issue and I am sure everyone will make their donations!!!

http://blog.digg.com/?p=74

Keep up the Digg work!!