The price for digg success

I guess much like the Slashdot effect, the Digg effect is both a good thing for your exposure and traffic hits, and a bad thing for those ISP’s watching the traffic. (See Jay’s Slashdot Fame ).

In the past week, I’ve gone to a number of digg article sites and they have been unavailable. I never kept details of these IT articles, but here is one the one article not of an IT I look at that I did. It referred to an image , which the host provider adjusted (see image to the right). The host provider was ImageShack . I didn’t read anything in the T & C about being too popular!

Here’s the original Digg Post Gmail ads get a little too personal .

Seems I’m not the only person wanting to see it, I found in the comments a repost of the image Here. Just for future reference my copy is Here

Tagged with: General Web 2.0

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