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I'm reminded of the BW cover: http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Technology/images/kevin-rose-business-week.jpg http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Technol

by ajays 16y ago

I'm reminded of the BW cover: http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Technology/images/kevin-rose-business-week.jpg http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Technology/images/kevi... My, how times have changed.

dusing 16y ago
Kevin is still a smart guy and he does have good ideas, digg just got out of control and suffered from some bad timing. Now Kevin will be free to really prove his worth again. I'm excited to see what he does.
- blantonl 16y ago
  sorry, but there is no such thing as bad-timing, only bad-leadership. And digg becoming "out of control" was the result of bad leadership. Frankly, if I had to evaluate Kevin as a leader, I would give a big thumbs down. There is no doubt he has enormous abilities as a visionary. But, Visionary != Execution.
  - ctingom 16y ago
    Man, that earthquake in Japan was sure bad leadership.
    - Stormbringer 16y ago
      I'm sorry, but using an ongoing tragedy with thousands of dead people as a way of 'scoring points' in some little battle of the debating geeks strikes me as at best enormously insensitive and in bad taste.
  - jeremymims 16y ago
    Sorry, Digg executed their way to a top 100 website. Right now it's number 111 in Quantcast. How do you define success?
    - blantonl 16y ago
      I define success as continued successful execution. Retaking the position of CEO, losing almost half of your traffic after spearheading a new release of the site, and then resigning and taking off for your new adventure hardly seems like a case of continued successful execution by a, well, successful CEO. So far, I would tell you that Digg was flown straight into the ground.
zaidf 16y ago
And just as that cover was full of hype, his "demise" is just as hyped.
joshu 16y ago
i was in that article. what an awful piece of "journalism"
- timcederman 16y ago
  Not the most auspicious introduction (for me at least) to Sarah Lacy.
  - btucker 16y ago
    Yeah, totally. Though I think I remember reading that it was her editors who really controlled that story (and the title/cover). In any case, I've been pleased to see her appear to grow tremendously as a journalist over the past few years.
    - robk 16y ago
      On what basis do you say that?
      - btucker 16y ago
        http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/19/rip-digg/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/19/rip-digg/
  - joshu 16y ago
    Indeed. Lying to your subjects about what the article is about is scummy as hell.
    - _pius 16y ago
      Just out of curiosity, what was the article supposed to be about?
      - joshu 16y ago
        New entrepreneurs. Instead it was more about Kevin's posse or something.
gsmaverick 16y ago
I remember him saying that the photo on the cover was one he explicitly asked not to be used as it was just taken as a fun shot.

by ajays 16y ago

dusing 16y ago

Kevin is still a smart guy and he does have good ideas, digg just got out of control and suffered from some bad timing. Now Kevin will be free to really prove his worth again. I'm excited to see what he does.

blantonl 16y ago
sorry, but there is no such thing as bad-timing, only bad-leadership. And digg becoming "out of control" was the result of bad leadership. Frankly, if I had to evaluate Kevin as a leader, I would give a big thumbs down. There is no doubt he has enormous abilities as a visionary. But, Visionary != Execution.
- ctingom 16y ago
  Man, that earthquake in Japan was sure bad leadership.
  - Stormbringer 16y ago
    I'm sorry, but using an ongoing tragedy with thousands of dead people as a way of 'scoring points' in some little battle of the debating geeks strikes me as at best enormously insensitive and in bad taste.
- jeremymims 16y ago
  Sorry, Digg executed their way to a top 100 website. Right now it's number 111 in Quantcast. How do you define success?
  - blantonl 16y ago
    I define success as continued successful execution. Retaking the position of CEO, losing almost half of your traffic after spearheading a new release of the site, and then resigning and taking off for your new adventure hardly seems like a case of continued successful execution by a, well, successful CEO. So far, I would tell you that Digg was flown straight into the ground.

zaidf 16y ago

And just as that cover was full of hype, his "demise" is just as hyped.

joshu 16y ago

i was in that article. what an awful piece of "journalism"

timcederman 16y ago
Not the most auspicious introduction (for me at least) to Sarah Lacy.
- btucker 16y ago
  Yeah, totally. Though I think I remember reading that it was her editors who really controlled that story (and the title/cover). In any case, I've been pleased to see her appear to grow tremendously as a journalist over the past few years.
  - robk 16y ago
    On what basis do you say that?
    - btucker 16y ago
      http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/19/rip-digg/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/19/rip-digg/
- joshu 16y ago
  Indeed. Lying to your subjects about what the article is about is scummy as hell.
  - _pius 16y ago
    Just out of curiosity, what was the article supposed to be about?
    - joshu 16y ago
      New entrepreneurs. Instead it was more about Kevin's posse or something.

gsmaverick 16y ago

I remember him saying that the photo on the cover was one he explicitly asked not to be used as it was just taken as a fun shot.