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Matt Williams is Digg's New CEO

• deleted 16y ago
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• yan 16y ago
  Our top priority is to make Digg as good as it used to be. I have no idea why, but that line instantly made me remember 96's Clinton/Dole debates[1] (I must have read about this later since I was only 11 at the time). He does sort of correct himself in the next sentence, but I feel even saying that is awfully clumsy as a CEO's first post. It fails to capture the nostalgia for the old digg community and, imho, it fails to show optimism for the future. [1] (from the nytimes) Mr. Dole's biggest rhetorical mistake, however, was his clumsy offer to serve as ''a bridge'' to an America that he said was better in the 1920's and 1930's. It was an odd line coming from the party of Ronald Reagan, the arch-evangel of American optimism, and Mr. Clinton served notice that Mr. Dole would not be allowed to forget his blunder. ''We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build a bridge to the future,'' Mr. Clinton said in elaborating his theme that he and the Democrats are the best leaders for the next century.