Why the Google acquistion of Digg could lead to the popular social bookmarking site being... buried. If past indications are anything to go by, the Google credo appears to be "buy it then forget it". Goes hand-in-hand with their "do no evil" credo I guess. While Digg is a popular service is its current form, any site that doesn't evolve over time to keep the interaction fresh risks ... Read full entry

Tomorrow, Saturday 7 June, marks the first anniversary of disassociated's migration to the WordPress CMS. It's been quite a ride, which incredibly, almost saw disassociated behave like a blog (though I still prefer to call it a website) for a time. Three posts made (thanks Kurt :) the front page of Digg (subsequently melting down disassociated's erstwhile web server), there was a ... Read full entry

Digg, you used to be cool: "Digg used to be a site for, well let's say it, nerds. It was full of the weird and wonderful, interesting and unique, but now it seems to be a place for shameless promotion, special interests and bitching." This may strike a chord with some... Ancient sea mud records supernova blast: from New Scientist. Seems an exploding supernova in our galactic ... Read full entry

Apologies to all (and there's been quite a few of you) who have been trying to access disassociated.com for the last twelve hours. A couple of things happened. First a recent post made the front page of digg! w00t! My first time! Then my web host of ten years advised me that disassociated was the subject of a DOS attack, and they were taking the site off ... Read full entry