Should Digg.com Create a Category for Cannabis? If so, digg this!

[MMJmedia]

Should Digg Create a Category for Cannabis? If so, digg this!




Below is an open letter to the developers over a Digg.com.

Im trying to convince Digg that they should have a category for Cannabis with subcategories such "medical", "hemp", "blogs", etc.

I dont know about you but I have such a hard time finding the proper place to put my cannabis articles on digg. And Id also like to see the highest ranked cannabis stories on Digg.

If you agree, please digg this!:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Should_Digg_Create_a_Category_for_Cannabis_If_so_digg_this

Dearest Digg's Diggiest Diggers:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for providing Digg, a valuable service of allowing we the people to affect the media of our time. As a Medical Marijuana Media Maven, I value this service beyond words.

Also as a Medical Marijuana Media Maven, I would like to suggest that you, the Digg Developers, consider adding a category specifically for all-things cannabis.

If you haven't notice, cannabis has been all over the media lately. I assume many of your dedicated diggers enjoy passing cannabis stories around as if the stories were the diggiest joints ever.

Your categories now just do not allow for easy placement of such stories. I keep putting my articles under "political opinion". I agree that my articles are political opinion, as are probably 80% of the articles about cannabis (it’s far more a political issue than any other).

However, I doubt 80% of the people who click on "political opinion" are really looking to find cannabis stories.

You even ask diggers to:

Tell us where to place your submission. Be as accurate as possible so that other people will be able to easily find it.​

It's very hard to be accurate when your current categories are so limiting. For example, when I post this to digg, where should I put it. It seems like a "social networing" or "Social Media" category may be more accurate of an option.


It seems like digg could benefit from revamping their entire category list. If you would like help, I think diggers will be happy to provide input. Just ask.

If you could create a category dedicated to cannabis, you would have more people coming to digg to post their cannabis articles and looking for cannabis articles. Possible subcategories could include "medical", "hemp", "blogs", etc.

To prove my point, I will create a blog post with this information and ask all my cannabis friends to digg it. We’ll see if others feel that cannabis disserves its own category on digg.

Digg deeper,
Cheryl
Medical Marijuana Media

 

[MacGuyver4.2.0]

Good luck with that:

Google, Facebook, Twitter,et al. are very image conscious. They still see MMJ as off limits. Even alot of Hydroponics stores do not want RIU members (or others) linking to their sites. Some 12 yr old will 'Digg It' and his parents will freak out. Not too sure how that will pan out.

 

[MMJmedia]

Good luck with that:

Google, Facebook, Twitter,et al. are very image conscience. They still see MMJ as off limits. Even alot of Hydroponics stores do not want RIU members (or others) linking to their sites. Some 12 yr old will 'Digg It' and his parents will freak out. Not too sure how that will pan out.

Oh, you make some very good points. I didn't even think about that. I was looking at it from a media/press point of view. There's so much cannabis news lately that it would be nice to see it in its own place. They could even restrict it more if it was in its own section.

I'll keep you updated. Thanks again for the new perspective.

 

[MMJmedia]

Oh, you make some very good points. I didn't even think about that. I was looking at it from a media/press point of view. There's so much cannabis news lately that it would be nice to see it in its own place. They could even restrict it more if it was in its own section.

I'll keep you updated. Thanks again for the new perspective.

My friend Devin Calloway said on facebook:"Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, had a launch party for his other site Pownce at Dennis Peron's sometime back. http://laughingsquid.com/pownce-party-at-dennis-perons-cozy-castro-cottage/"

 

[MacGuyver4.2.0]

YouTube Censors Marijuana Question In Obama Interview
Graphic: ABC NewsIf you voted for marijuana as a CitizenTube question, then your vote didn't count.Yes, questions about marijuana were the most popular in the CitizenTube voting Monday afternoon.


But YouTube, in a gutless move, decided at the last minute not to present the highest ranked questions to the President.


Initial reports that the President had ignored the marijuana questions were inaccurate; YouTube took pot, the top vote getter, out of the running.


President Obama never even got an opportunity to answer the most popular question of all.


Wait, what?

​If they were going to ignore the questions that got the most votes, then why, exactly, did YouTube ask viewers to go to the trouble of voting? And why did they go through the motions of counting those votes, if they were good for bupkis, nada, zilch?


Here's a more likely scenario:


YouTube blanched when they saw marijuana had once again proved itself to be a popular, mainstream issue by topping the vote.


So they chunked all the votes, and just picked the questions they would have asked anyway.


It seems obvious now that when YouTube said "We've collected the top questions," they didn't mean the questions viewers thought were tops. They mean the questions they picked to be tops.


"It's unfortunate that YouTube would shelter the President from something that's obviously on a lot of people's minds," said Ben Morris of the Marijuana Policy Project.


As pointed out by Morris, marijuana can no longer be safely regarded as a "fringe issue."


With recent national polls showing legalization approaching majority support, the time when politicians could afford laugh off the marijuana issue is coming to a close.


Last year, when marijuana reform questions topped the "Open For Questions" forum sponsored by the White House, the President did answer them.


Unfortunately, he chose to answer them in a dismissive and condescending manner, as in "what that says about the online audience," and never addressed the substance of the questions.

 

[MMJmedia]

Whoa! That's some serious stuff...I wonder if their lawyers stepped in and said that the cannabis was a legal issue...I"m not sure why it would be though. I would have liked to be a fly on the wall in the room where they discussed this.

I hope digg is different. Allow though, I only have 20 votes, so I don't think it will make much of an impression at this point.