I wish I had the programming skills to have automated this, but… nosiree, I had to get all of this info the ol’ fashioned way. But I got to visit a lot of really cool pages (via #1 diggs) along the way so it was all worth the while.

Below are the top 41 Digg users, along with a link to what is (at the time of this post) considered by them to be the number 1 story on Digg.com. So pay attention folks, and you might learn something about what interests the Digg Elite.

Science – 8 Stories
Internet – 5 Stories
Politics – 5 Stories
Entertainment – 4 Stories
General News – 4 Stories
Business News – 3 Stories
Technology – 3 Stories
Software and Games – 3 Stories
Consumer Electronics – 2 Stories
Health – 1 Story

(All links open in a new window)

digitalgopher 
Stunning Underwater Photography Gallery (NSFW)

p9s50W5k4GUD2c6 
AKA P9
Physicists discover structure of a brain cell same as the entire universe

gwjc 
AKA George W. (no relation)
Awesome cover of Hey Ya

BloodJunkie 
AKA Derek van Vliet
Soldiers in ‘guns for coke’ scandal

dirtyfratboy 
AKA Henry W.
Bias in Social Media

supernova17 
AKA Karim
PiggNation Episode 10 Released

aaaz 
AKA John Adam
The Oil Conspiracy

CLIFFosakaJAPAN 
AKA Cliff W.
Police use Pics of Breasts to aid in capturing Breast-Op Non-Payers

Holly Crap, this is taking a long time…

bonlebon
AKA Lebon Bon Lebon
Open scientific software

DarkHack 
AKA Rong Thach
T-Mobile Wins Large Chunks of 3G Spectrum, What Does This Means To You?

Aidenag
AKA Mark
F1 racer ripping a Ferrari 275 GTB on the streets of Paris..NFS style

capn_caveman 
Ohio State strengthens hold on #1 in polls after win at Iowa

tommytrc 
AKA Thomas Clifford
Skygenie Combined Mouse and Skype Speakerphone, World’s First…

msaleem 
AKA Muhammad Saleem
Analyst rumor: Adobe to launch Creative Suite 3 in May

wayjer 
AKA Wayne
Live Cam Feed of African Wilderness!
Okay, I’ve got my new home page.

snipehack 
Busey Clip - Recycling Roadkill

tlmac59 
AKA Lew
MySpace Launches Voter-Registration Plan

I’m going to be up all night… (Note: At this point, I was still planning on doing the Top 100.)

chrisek
PiggNation Episode 10 Released

johndi 
AKA John
Dark Crystal Sequel Gives Henson’s Puppet Epic A Second Chance

parislemon 
AKA MG Siegler
Ultrafast star escapes black hole

Gregd 
AKA Greg D
The Constitution of the United States of America 
I think I’ll digg this too.

curtissthompson
AKA Curtiss Thompson
The Daily Show: Interview With Dennis Miller

OBKenobi 
AKA Osama Bin Kenobi
Digg Adds New ‘My #1 Story’ Feature
Ohh that’s clever. Get it. See what he did there?

JibberJabber
10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page (Hilarious!)
Hmmm, well I’ve got a few of those steps. Guess I need to start making fun of people though… Hey, you suck. Macs are cool; if you don’t buy one we’ll all die when California goes underwater. You can read about it online, but make sure you browse with Firefox because IE sucks. And George bush… well I agree with THESE GUYS. There, I think I have all the ingredients.

zepequeno
AKA Ze pequeno
A Laptop Powered by a Jet Engine

webtech
Interview with John Hodgman (PC from those “Get a Mac” ads)

3monkeys 
AKA Stacy Doss
Lung cancer drug extends life

schestowitz
AKA Roy Schestowitz
Google Search Cloud (for Webmasters)

hemphill81 
Dell Pinpointed Sony Battery Flaw Last Year, Records Show

kevinrose 
AKA Kevin Rose
Hidden rooms on the rise

Tyson H.
Revision3 now online!
I think it’s really cool that this guy dugg a Google query.

Ostermayer
Harness the Power of the Ocean!

fudgebrown 
AKA Johnny
9-Volt Lights: reuse your batteries as candles
Somehow a bedroom full of 9-volts just doesn’t seem as romantic…

cambrown99
AKA Cameron
Virgin Frequent-flyer Cashes in 2,000,000 miles for 75 mile Space Flight

Hmmm… Did I miss one?  Oh well, I hope they have a sense of humor.

ndm007
AKA Nathan Makan
Motorola’s Music RAZR Surprisingly Dull

DigiDave 
AKA David Cohn
Scenes from BarCamp

sahaskatta 
Xbox 360 adds 1080p, HD DVD drive is $170 US

giantAppleCore 
Science Survey History

elebrio 
AKA Ryan Underdown
Airbus CEO: 15 Years Behind Boeing

Rhiannon1214 
Our Money & Our Freedom: What Government Is Doing to Both

Why stop at an arbitrary number like #41? Because it’s late and I’m tired. I can’t think of a better reason that that. Good digg and good night.

Use this as your home search page from now on and you will have good luck.

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Thanks to this digg by Hawaii SEO and these guys for a fun little tool.

A while back I posted a screenshot timeline of myspace.com. Sadly, it resulted in enough traffic that someone over there decided to block the Wayback machine from MySpace. If I knew then what I know now, I would have taken screenshots. Sadly, those images are lost forever…

But I won’t make the same mistake twice. This time, instead of providing links to the WayBack Machine page, I have taken screenshots of the old Digg.com homepages. Enjoy:

Digg.com on November 11, 1998 - Don’t you just love splash pages? Believe it or not, people still use these. Could This Company be the legendary “digg records”?

Digg.com on August 19, 2000

Digg.com on February 02, 2001 - Aha, Engrish!

Digg.com on January 23, 2005 - The first glimpse at modern-day digg.com

Digg.com on April 1, 2005 - No April fool’s day pranks? The only difference from the shot above is a new call-to-action.

June, 2006
 

Today’s Digg.com

I would like to keep this up-to-date. If you ever see a new design from Digg.com, please let me know. I will take a screenshot and add it to this resource. At least this piece of Internet history won’t be lost like MySpace…

First reported by Danny Sullivan on Search Engine Watch

Google has acquired a new site called SearchMash, which they plan on using to test user interface ideas. According to Google, SearchMash “does not include Google branding to help us gather more objective data about user response to new interfaces”.

One of the ideas they are testing is the drop box function, in which a user clicks on the URL (not the title) and is given the option to:
open the listing in the current window
a new window
to see more pages from that web site
to find similar pages.

SearchMash also allows users to drag-and-drop web search results and reorder their position. However, the result goes back into its old position on your next search, so I really don’t see the point. Perhaps this is a prelude to some personalization feature that we might see in the future. When that happens, be sure to do This Search and move our listing from #9 up to #1. It will be most appreciated.

Read more about Google’s most recent toy, SearchMash, over at Search Engine Watch.

This guy should have been a journalist. I invite Quadzilla to submit stories to Mental Floss because his writing is funny-but-true on so many levels. Take, for instance, the fact that he manages to abide by all of his suggestions in this article about how to make the front page of digg.

Take step 9, for instance:
“Insult as many groups as you can. Flamewars are popular for a reason. Throw out bombs that dare people to comment on your story. If you haven’t pissed off half your readers by the end of your article, it’s probably because you don’t have the balls or you’re too stupid to figure out how.”

While I do not advise anyone to go on Digg and insult the reader base (unless you can get away with it, like Quadzilla does) but I just wanted to point out that, while advising you to insult everyone, he implies that A: you have no testicles or B: you are dumb.

The irony is bitter-sweet and the writing is great, which is why this article deserve all the diggs it gets.