Copy of the Law and a note. Operational Law Handbook, International and Operational Law Department, The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School, U.S. Blog connections – Digg offers one-click blogging of any story as long as your blog is hosted by Typepad, Blogger, Live Journal, Moveable Type or WordPress. I­n addition to these special features, the developers at Digg are always working on new applications. Digg Recommendations – Digg’s Recommendation Engine uses a special algorithm to search for other Digg members who Dugg the same stories you’ve Dugg. You can use the Recommendation Engine by browsing in Digg’s Upcoming tab, or you can switch to the “All” view and look at everything. For inspiration, they say they need look no further than to Miller’s jailing and hunger strike, which he ended Sunday. You need to actually log in when you get to the site, which in practice may act as an initial security measure to ensure user validity for each visit.

All you need to do is click “Submit a Story” on the upper right-hand side of the homepage, do a keyword or URL search and, if it appears your story hasn’t been submitted yet, provide a title, a link and a short description of the story you’re posting. Just click the “blog story” link below any story description. In the Diggnation podcast recorded on June 14, 2006, Kevin Rose estimated the total number of servers in the area of 75. A 2008 post in the Digg technical blog stated that the company has between 1.8 and 2.5 times the minimum number of servers it needs to keep Digg running. You can use the engine to make friends or just keep an eye out for stories you might otherwise miss. Social bookmarks – Add friends and keep track of their activities on Digg through your own profile page. You can add your own comment at the bottom of the comments page. Finally, you can post a story to the Digg queue yourself and hope other users find it interesting enough to Digg it straight to the front page. It’ll either get enough Diggs to move to the homepage or eventually disappear if it doesn’t get enough Diggs or it gets reported by multiple users.

According to Adelman, “Our karma system knows the difference between users created to just digg a story and a user who has interacted with the site.” The system also looks for auto-Digging, the computerized Digging of a story to fraudulently promote it to the homepage. Learn more about the boy who would grow up to be King in the next section. For example, the BigSpy application displays Digg stories using fonts of different sizes — larger fonts indicate stories that have received more Diggs. If you discover a story you find particularly interesting and have something to add or would like to discuss it with other Digg users, just click the “comments” link beneath the story description. RSS feed – Add Digg news to your own site through an RSS feed. You have several options of which stories to feed — you can automatically add all Digg homepage stories, all stories you Digg or comment on, and all stories any of your friends Digg or comment on. We’ll just have to wait and see … The submission immediately appears in the Upcoming Stories queue where anybody can see it. When a story gets enough reports, or “buries,” it disappears from the Digg queue and only appears in search results and user profiles.

Digg isn’t just a news Web site. The system runs a “de-promotion algorithm” that determines when a reported story is ready to disappear from the main site pages. As a Digg user, your help is appreciated in reporting duplicate stories (not allowed), dead links, incorrect stories, oldness, lameness and spam by clicking the corresponding link in the “problem” drop-down list below each story description. E-mail story – E-mail any story to a friend by clicking the “email this” link beneath the story description. From his birth in a shotgun shack in East Tupelo, Mississippi, to his death in a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, and through all the struggles and triumphs in between, the life of Elvis Presley is a fascinating story. Elvis gave unprecedented access and sincere thanks to his fans throughout his life, even when those same fans made it impossible for him to live a normal life. Thanks to less expensive data plans and better smartphone technology, it’s cheaper, easier and more enjoyable to watch TV on cell phones than ever before. Digg doesn’t use any cookies, only server-side storage, so all of your user data (past Diggs, friends, comments, etc.) are saved in your Digg profile, which is saved in the Digg database.