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It's good if you can get a lot of traffic to your website because one of your articles appears on the front page of Digg. It can be even better when an article makes it to the front page twice. Read this article to find out the four steps to follow if you want your article to appear on the front page of Digg twice.
Tetris Dreams are dreams you have when you have been playing Tetris too much. Something similar happens to me when I spot unfamiliar bird species in my dreams.
Combine my Voted Compensation system with a suggestion from Hannibal at ArsTechnica, and you end up with a practical scheme for worldwide funding of free entertainment content, where consumers pick the winners after they are produced, and not before.
Reddit has a Hot page and a New page. Each of these has its advantages and disadvantages, and there is a case for allowing users to select pages with in-between characteristics.
In "The Brain – An Orchestra Without A Conductor", Wolf Singer argues that the brain lacks any coordinating supervisor, despite our strong intuition that our mind does have some central point of control. The only thing is, orchestras do have conductors, and there are good reasons why they have conductors. And these reasons apply equally to the human brain.
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