Here’s a thought: Digg’s supposed to be a social book marking site, right? You know, with all the mob-minded stuff you can think of. And Del.icio.us is ALSO a social book marking site. My Del.icio.us links are quite many in number, but they don’t come CLOSE to my diggs. Also, digg isn’t NEARLY as good for ordering bookmarks and such. It doesn’t support tagging, to me it’s search feature is clunky, you can’t (as far as I can tell) send an article to a friend like you can with del.icio.us, and a few other small things. Del.icio.us, on the other hand, doesn’t have the community rating of digg, nor does it have the sheer magnitude of patrons that digg does. Two different people, two solutions to the same problem. I propose a unified solution.

Originally, my solution required a large roll of duct tape, a stick of chewing gum (not that Bubble Tape crap, either), and three young ducklings. However, not having two out of three items (hey, every man worth his salt has duct tape, right?), I decided to be more practical. And so I came up with an idea I like to call digg.licio.us. A mash-up in the grandest sense!

I said to myself “Me, how could I best go about getting my diggs del.icio.usified?” Operationally, that is (the programming would be another story; I’m thinking PHP or C#). “Well,” said me “you’d want everything you dugg to be posted to del.icio.us, right? And you’d clearly want it tagged. Also, you’d likely want to mark it as coming from digg. Oh, and you’d wanna bookmark the article itself, as opposed to the digg page (though you’d want to include a link to the digg page in the notes of the del.icio.us bookmark). And one last thing, self: You’re not going to want it to require manual tagging (though it can be an option), so just use del.icio.us’s recommended tags for the link and maybe add the tag ‘dugg’, just to satisfy the ‘mark as from digg’ requirement”. “Whew!” I said to myself, “I’m long winded!”

Of course, I’m sure there are problems with this, but I think on the whole it would be a good system. It would bring people to digg (everyone loves Web 2.0, don’t ‘cha know), it would bring diggers to del.icio.us (I’d have a HECK of a lot more use for it), and it would better index some of the COOLEST information on the internet. Implementation SHOULD be easy. Digg provides a great RSS feed (many in fact, but the important one here is the on for stuff I’ve dugg ), and I’m told that del.icio.us has a VERY easy to use API, so if there’s a program in the middle parsing the XML file from digg and spitting it out in a del.icio.us friendly format, it should work like a charm.

So, who out there is comfortable enough in PHP to make this happen? I’m just getting my PHP legs, and I’m still a bit wobbly.

Here’s a neat little game I found on Digg:

MotherLoad Use your digger to excavate as much ore as possible

Play this free game now!!

It’s a neat little game about digging down to get to the sweet, delicious ore. Mmm… Ore…… Arrgghh…………….

Anyway, here’s a screen capture below. I think you should go check out the game NOW! It’s pretty cool.

You can digg it here. And of course, just go Here to play the game itself!

What if our town/state/government offered us an email address that was JUST for us, and would ALWAYS be there (even though past emails might not, at least the address would be). It could allow POP3 access, Forwarding, and even (likely small) attachments (say maybe 50k or less?). Mind you, everyone wouldn’t get one automaticly, but anyone who wanted one, who lived in that area (whether we’re talking city, state, country, what ever) could apply for one and THEN have it ’till they die. Say, format could be something like first name, last name, area code of where they were born, last 4 of their SSN (or something like that). So, Homer Simpson born in Springfield VT 01234 with a SSN of 111-22-3456 would have an email of homersimpson012343456@springfield.vt.us or something. Now, I realize that unless you used it as your primary email address (which I doubt many would) you’d have to go in and change the forwarding rules every time you got a new email address, but I think that’s an ok sacrifice, personally. There are SO many people I’d like to get in touch with who I’d STILL be able to if they simply updated their permenant email address now and again. We’d give it out as a sort of permanant address, so when you meet someone, you can give them this, or your current email if they’re not important enough to warrent the contact down the road. Or heck, why not both?

To me, it just makes sense. What do YOU think?

Here we have a brand spankin’ new Domain (truevox.net) and GREAT pay as you go hosting provided by nearlyfreespeech.net (GOOD people, pay per usage). At any rate, I’m here to stay. I’m powered by sweet delicious Wordpress (a GREAT CMS, if you all are intrested). Now, on to business.

We’ve got a new member of our Family! Her name is Angel, and Deanna is GAGA over her. Oh, and here’s a few pics:

Isn’t she a sweet heart? We’ve fallen in love with her from when my dad walked through the door with her. I think we’re gonna keep her. She’s in the bathroom now, just enjoying the shelter (she was sitting under my car when Dad saw her).

In other news, I HAVE A MOVIE OF OUR HOUSE!!! Here we go:

Well, thanks for joining us, both at our new cyber home, and soon at our new HOME home. The cleaning party is on the 22 of this month, and there will be my Dad’s pizza and Deanna’s Gram’s Pasta. Mm mm good!

Thanks, and happy reading!