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“The big daddy of social news sites is getting a flashy new suit of clothes.

“Digg has offered a first glimpse of its new website design, a radical reboot that not only alters the entire look of the site, but also ditches Digg’s rigid taxonomy in favor of user-selected tags. It also taps into the broader social web to help users discover relevant news stories.”

Above quote from Wired. Other coverage:

CNN
Bloomberg
Fox Business
FastCompany
Mashable
ReadWriteWeb
Telegraph UK
PC Mag
HuffingtonPost

(Disclosure: The big daddy of social news is also my employer.)

From Wired Revolver film :

“The web’s best blogs are honored here every year at the Weblog Awards, aka “The Bloggies,” now in their ninth year. The top prize for 2009’s edition were handed out to blogger and photographer Ree Drummond for her site, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman.”

Black Christmas the movie

THX 1138

Cousins release

Congrats, Ree!

At South By Southwest today, Ask A Ninja’s Kent Nichols explained how his budding media empire makes so much money: The “voodoo bullshit” performed by “sweaty people who drink,” aka, the ad-sales team at FM. While we all do our best to keep our perspiration to a minimum (no comment on drinking), he does have a point. And even if I didn’t agree with the characterization, let’s be honest: I’d never pick a fight with Ninja.

But what is it with the ad-sales-people-are-like-farm-animals stuff? Here’s Arrington at TechCrunch in a comment last week. (The original post discusses FM’s value, valuation and acquisition rumors from a few months back.) A stud?! I’m blushing.

Kent and Mike, thank you both for the kind (and evocative) words!