{"id":830,"date":"2008-07-06T06:11:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/06\/my-first-article-to-get-popular-on-digg\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T06:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T13:11:45","slug":"my-first-article-to-get-popular-on-digg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/my-first-article-to-get-popular-on-digg\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Article to get Popular on Digg."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/2641415739\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3092\/2641415739_4fecbc28f5_m.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/2641415739\/\">My First Article to get Popular on Digg.<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/gubatron\/\">Gubatron<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to musicaymas on plurk I found about this black dot that shows up on the top left corner of Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>\nI took a couple of screenshots of it <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/2636812888\/?hasignored=1\">www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/2636812888\/?hasignored=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and posted the link on digg, 12 hours later it was on the home page, now this is a screenshot of it on the top of the Technology-Images digg home.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the digg page<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tech_news\/Do_you_see_a_black_dot_on_your_GMail_too\">digg.com\/tech_news\/Do_you_see_a_black_dot_on_your_GMail_too<\/a><\/p>\n<p>as of now with 2524 diggs, and 424 comments. My email is full of digg.com fan requests, it seems all the digging has paid off. Let&#8217;s see if subsequent submissions will be popular again.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, flickr reports over 130 thousand views on the image. It&#8217;s awesome to get digged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My First Article to get Popular on Digg. Originally uploaded by Gubatron. Thanks to musicaymas on plurk I found about this black dot that shows up on the top left corner of Gmail. I took a couple of screenshots of it www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/2636812888\/?hasignored=1 and posted the link on digg, 12 hours later it was on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeklife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-do","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1290,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/digg-dialogg-sir-richard-branson\/","url_meta":{"origin":830,"position":0},"title":"Digg Dialogg: Sir Richard Branson","author":"gubatron","date":"May 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mentors&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mentors","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/mentors\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":785,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/analizing-a-succesful-digger\/","url_meta":{"origin":830,"position":1},"title":"Analizing a succesful &#8220;Digger&#8221;","author":"gubatron","date":"April 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"How many times have you tried to get a story on digg.com and it just won't get anywhere, but then you see stories submitted only 45 minutes ago, and they're already on the home page? 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