It does not appear that Skype is going to work out for us.

Please leave the Xombyte that we posted here alone. We're not targeting you just showing an example. Don't worry about what is already posted in the past. We're only starting this rule today. No worries.

I'm not saying that the ownership of Digg is hostile, but the inner circle of members is openly hostile to sites that feature independent, original articles. I used to submit links and otherwise participate in the Digg "community" because they featured a huge amount of news and information. What I found over a period of time is that certain topics are favored by the inner circle and tend to get hundreds or thousands of Diggs, but original content is buried if not dismissed outright as "blogspam". Take Ron Paul topics, for instance. I am a Ron Paul supporter, so I look for topics there about the man. Those that are not actually buried feature comments so blatantly anti-RP that you would think that the news staff at Faux News and Controlled News Network spent part of their workday trolling their pages. This hostility tends to favor controlled wire stories at the expense of debate that actually makes people think about what is REALLY going on in this country and in the world today. If you want a site that features controlled BS all in one place, you have Digg. If you want a site that features original content and actual thinking/writing, you have Xomba. My two cents. Click here if you have something to say and want to get paid to say it!

I am all for the new minimum. It is a disservice to those of us who take the time to research an article and write it out for the search engines to have a dozen articles ostensibly on the same subject but just thrown together, to have quality lost in quantity in the "Related Articles" section. I like the idea of a Writing Community as opposed to a Getting Paid by any Means Possible Community. Click here if you have something to say and want to get paid to say it!