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I took off the Digg buttons, after hearing from Mac-using friends that they couldn't see pictures or videos.

Back to a simpler template.

If you're Digg member, you can still Digg posts, you just have to go to Digg.com and do it manually.

New Look

Well, just a little added feature. I've added a button on each post that lets you recommend it to "Digg", which is kind of a word-of-mouth recommendation site for the web.

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.

How do we do this? Everything on Digg — from news to videos to images to Podcasts — is submitted by our community (that would be you). Once something is submitted, other people see it and Digg what they like best. If your submission rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of our visitors to see.

You have to register to use the site or recommend posts. The more unique people recommend a post, the higher you travel in their rankings. So you just can't recommend all of your own posts and expect to move up that way. (I discovered this when I read an article about how Mark Cuban's brother (Mark Cuban, dotcom billionaire, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, prospective owner of the Cubs) got banned from Digg for putting in a script in his blog that auto-recommended his posts to Digg. Another asshole in the Cuban family, shocking.). I'm not trying to do anything like that. But if I write something that you like, give it a go.

Happy Blogiversary to Me!

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Yesterday was the third blogiversary of Main St. USA. Thanks to all who have read and commented.

Blogger Down

Blogger has been down all day, but seems to have been restored. Posting will resume shortly!

I went to the studio and made pots. Good trade.

Noises I Hate

That little clicking sound Blogger makes as it cycles through "Publishing in Progress" when the result will be "There were errors...."

Slower than sludge

I wrote three posts this morning and posted them, according to blogspot "successfully".  Now, 11:30 p.m. at night, more than 12 hours later, they're still not showing up.  What gives? 

blogspot is broken

Gee, it only took 4 days for my last post to publish. It's hard to be topical with that kind of time frame. I feel like US News & World Report.