This is an interactive digg counter/button that gives visitors a visual view of your story being dugg in real-time. In this example, Mario hits a coin box every time your story is dugg. The widget can be customized with several other presets, or you can make your own style easily. Nice reaction to live web dynamic.

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Wikipedia is great encyclopedia, but did you know you could also use it as a future planner, TV guide, zeitgeist trend tracker, and more?

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While most people with home networks use them only to share a broadband connection and the occasional file transfer, an increasing number are using them for gaming and streaming media.

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It's nice to see some humanity in our widegetized automated world. Shhh. Humans at work.

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Last week, at Asia de Cuba in San Francisco, I engaged in a lively conversation with Mr. Peter Hirschberg, one of the founding minds behind Technorati. In our conversation about the role of influence on ranking and popularity, I posited the notion of quantum influence – nope, we’re not talking particle/wave theory here, just the kind of “moving target” of influence in the blogosphere. While some proclaim to hold the Holy Grail algorithm that pinpoints THE uber-blogger in any particular category, the Infonaut would suggest that just as quantum physicists determined, the observer inevitably gets intangled in the observation. Thus the uncertainty principle…and “blogebrity” have a unique and curious connection. If YOU posses the power to scientifically prove influence, kindly contact me at once.

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I’m glad this is happening — as Jeff Jarvis points out, “new” and “old’ media will live happily ever after. For PR specialists, this especially exciting for the social media-obsessed, who now have plenty of evidence that bloggers and traditional journalists need each other more and more in an a world where knowledge is increasingly networked and “distributed journalism” is slowly becoming the norm.

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Little Green Footballs’ Charles Johnson stands out as this week’s super blogger. Not only did this eccentric blogger stand up to Reuters, but he brought them accountable for this photo, which was tipped off as a fake by a tipster and readerof his blog. Freelancer Adnan Hajj had added a LOT more smoke to the fire, with the help of Photoshop, adding a layer of conflict that really didn’t happen. The story hit other mainstream outlets like USA Today today and is an encouraging moment in the evolution of how professional journalism works, how it’s defined and how it’s policed.

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