http://www.reportr.net/2007/05/02/digg-revolt-and-the-power-of-the-crowd/ Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.reportr.net/2007/05/02/digg-revolt-and-the-power-of-the-crowd/comment-page-1/#comment-62 feartheseeds Thu, 03 May 2007 07:51:21 +0000 http://reportr.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/digg-revolt-and-the-power-of-the-crowd/#comment-62 The power of the crowd is meaningless when the manufacturer can change the code whenever it wants to. So the code will work on a few models for a few years or until that model is made obsolete or taken in for repairs under warranty. Presto wacko, new chip installed and no more freebies. These stories ARE NOT NEW. Seven years ago it was a T-shirt with some code on it which would give DVD users free access to something. The T-shirts got pulled, but someone posted a photo of the front of the T-shirt on the web -- which circumvented the limited judgement against the T-shirt people. That's *seven years ago*. This kind of hack happens every year, every single time there's a tech product rollout. All the people did at Digg was the same thing people did seven years ago and every year since, they just did it within the uberkewl confines of Digg which made it easy for newbie reporters to reference. Remember the Cult Of The Dead Cow? They're been doing stuff like this since 1984. The power of the crowd is meaningless when the manufacturer can change the code whenever it wants to. So the code will work on a few models for a few years or until that model is made obsolete or taken in for repairs under warranty. Presto wacko, new chip installed and no more freebies. These stories ARE NOT NEW. Seven years ago it was a T-shirt with some code on it which would give DVD users free access to something. The T-shirts got pulled, but someone posted a photo of the front of the T-shirt on the web — which circumvented the limited judgement against the T-shirt people. That’s *seven years ago*. This kind of hack happens every year, every single time there’s a tech product rollout. All the people did at Digg was the same thing people did seven years ago and every year since, they just did it within the uberkewl confines of Digg which made it easy for newbie reporters to reference. Remember the Cult Of The Dead Cow? They’re been doing stuff like this since 1984.

]]> http://www.reportr.net/2007/05/02/digg-revolt-and-the-power-of-the-crowd/comment-page-1/#comment-61 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 | jamesmitchell.co.uk Wed, 02 May 2007 19:09:36 +0000 http://reportr.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/digg-revolt-and-the-power-of-the-crowd/#comment-61 [...] Michael Arrington of techcrunch writes that “[to call…] what happened today on Digg a ‘user revolt’ is an understatement“. Reportr calls it ‘a triumph for the audience‘. [...] [...] Michael Arrington of techcrunch writes that “[to call…] what happened today on Digg a ‘user revolt’ is an understatement“. Reportr calls it ‘a triumph for the audience‘. [...]

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