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These past few months I really started to enjoy Digg, Great article and great friends. Digg has also been a great way to promote my websites and business as well. Digg recently made a change last week which basically gave the middle finger to top users and veterans of the website.

Last week Digg changed their Algo so the more mutual friends you have, the more Digg’s it will take to get your story popular. OK at first I was like cool thats not a huge deal until it takes people 23 1/2 hours and 200+ Digg’s to get a story popular now. Before Digg made the change last week it would take maybe 10 hours and 90 Digg’s at the most to get popular. The worst part about this is people who do not regularly participate on Digg and have zero friends can get by with less then 60 Digg’s still.

This is not right what Digg has done to the community who has supplied them with quality stories and made their site worth $300 Million!. So as the title says you got to ask yourself, why support someone who does not give two craps about you.
A few months back I used to let my friend use Digg from my office, he ended up getting banned and my IP has been blocked for over a month already. I sent countless e-mails to Digg support and never received an Answer back thus referring to this post. This is not how you run a business!. With my business I make sure that every e-mail is answered and every phone call is called back. That is what you call respect for your customers and respect for your business.

So what have I done about this? Simple I started my own Digg type site. The site is a sub-domain on my bookmarking site www.upchuckr.com . The direct address to the new site is upchuckit.upchuckr.com . I am keeping Upchuckit as a Niche site rather just being general which will keep it apart from Digg. The Niche that I chose is Web-mastering. I will accept stories that have to do with SEO, Site administration, Making money and so on. Upchuckit works the same way as Digg where users vote on a story to get to the front . I launched the bookmarking site last month and the sub-domain this week so I am hoping that they will both take off.

Feel free to leave me and questions or comments about the sites.

Ever e-mail Digg and never get a response back? Well you are not alone. I had a few pictures of leak of who exactly their tech support is. Take a look

Now you know why e-mails are not responded to…

Its been a few days since I last posted here. I got a lovely cold and it seems that everyone who I come in contact with has a cold as well. This past week I added an addition onto our bookmarking Site http://www.upchuckr.com. Which by the way is 1 month old and the Alexa is already down to 515k :).

This week I added http://upchuckit.upchuckr.com to the domain. Upchuckit is similar to Digg and works just about the same way, voting on stories, videos, ETC. Currently it is an open format accepting all kinds of Niches but I am trying to think what exactly I want to do with it. I don’t know whether to leave it as it is or just have users vote on Videos, blogs or anything else. It has been live for only 3 days and this is the first time that I am advertising it, as I am trying to get the bugs out. There is one final bug on submission but it can be ignored, I just do not know how to remove the mysql error. If you are good at programing and think you can help me, please do!.

Basically now upchuckr.com is two social bookmarking sites in one. Social networking sites in general are getting very popular and are vital for SEO and promoting your websites, Especially since upchuckr.com is Dofollow.

So check it out and let me know what you think!

Sold for - $3.25

For your consideration, is a totally bizarre looking, Michigan grown carrot. The carrot looks like a hand with it’s thumb sticking out hitchhiking. It is looking for a new home. So please help it find one. The carrot measures approximately 5 1/2? long x 3? wide and 1 1/2? thick. I dug this carrot out this morning,but it will not last forever. Ask questions if you have them.

 

The Holiest… and Most Expensive… Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Sold for - $28,000

It is hard to believe someone paid thousands of dollars for this sandwich… but someone did!

A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for $28,000 on eBay.

GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed that it placed the winning bid, and company executives said they were willing to spend “as much as it took” to own the 10-year-old half-sandwich with a bite out of it.

 

Holy Towel
Sold for - $66.00

Some people have pointed out that this imprint seems more demonic than angelic. I think its subject to interpretation. I think its an angel, albeit a dark one. It does look a little like bat girl or a kitten dominatrix but it also could be the black madonna and all three of the figures I have just mentioned are magical and cool. I still think this imprint is divine and I do think that it is a worthwhile towel to own.

Fly To Work
Sold for - $131,700

 

Well, you could fly to work if you perfected the commuter plane’s technology from the 1980s. It sold for close to $132,000 and disappointingly it doesn’t even fly.

 

Elvis’ Bottle of Water
Sold for - $455

You don’t have to go to eBay to buy a bottle of water. But you do have to if it ‘may possibley’ have a slight chance of belonging to Elvis, or he looked at it once - maybe! And at only $455, what a deal!

Checker Autobus
Sold for - $4,850

If you have 15 kids and are on a budget, which presumably you would be with that many kids to feed, this is the family vehicle for you.

 

Smiling French Fry
Sold for - $2.09

French fries are good and tasty and apparently happy… The winner of this happy fry paid around $2 for it. You could buy lots of non-smiling fries from McDonalds for that… it’s up to you though. Hot, fresh non-smiling fries or one cold, old, smiling fry.

Duck Shaped Peanut
Sold for - $0.99

Everyone wants a duck shaped peanut. Right?

 

Get Your Cornflakes on eBay…One at a Time
Sold for- £1.20

This eBay auction was for a single corn flake. Don’t let the photo mislead you because it was for a single flake, not an entire box.

 

The Giant Chee-toh
Sold for - $180 (But donated for free)

Believe it or not but this giant chee-toh was listed on eBay. It received many bids before it was eventually taken off and donated to a small farming town. They are using it as a tourist attraction. - You really couldn’t make this stuff up!

 

Foreheads… the Billboards of the Future?
Sold for - $322

A US man from Omaha, Nebraska, auctioned off 30 days of ad space on his forehead. Believe it or not, but he had plenty of interest and the “spot” was sold for $322 (£171).

 

My Spotted Dick in the Can
Sold for - $18.50

And it only sold for $18.50. What a deal! What is canned spotted dick anyway?

 

Is that a Dead Rat?
Sold for - $6.50

No, it’s just driftwood that looks like a dead rat. Everyone’s idea of a cool home accessory.

 

A Gold Dead Rat
Sold for - $42.95

And if you are really into dead rats you might as well have a gold charm, too…

 

A Real, Live Kidney
Sold for - $0

Ok, so this one didn’t sell. But, it could have! Lots of people need a kidney, but most of them probably don’t have $2.5 million to buy it. That’s probably the only reason it didn’t sell though!

 

The $3000 French Toast
Sold for - $3154.00

This is seriously ridiculous. Someone paid more than $3000 for a piece of French toast that Justin Timberlake took a bite out of.Imagine how much it would have been if he’d eaten it all!

 

Butter PDA
Sold for - $105

Seriously, it’s a 50-pound butter PDA. You could do a lot of bread buttering with that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello All,

As you know already I am always looking to do something different with Our bidding directory. I now came up with a new idea which I am sure you are going to love. For each bid made over $20 I am going to give you a year of free web hosting.

Now of course the higher you bid the more bandwidth and space you will get, but its still a win win deal!.

Here is what I have to offer

a $20-$30 bid will get you

1GB disk space
5GB Bandwidth per month

Unlimited FTP, Emails, subdomains, Databases
A $31-$40 Bid will get you

2 GB disk space
10 GB Bandwidth

Unlimited FTP, Emails, subdomains, Databases

A $41-$50 Bid Will get you

3GB disk space
15 GB Bandwidth

Unlimited FTP, Emails, subdomains, Databases

Basically every $10 it will raise 1 GB disk-space and 5 GB of bandwidth.

Now take note that this is a trial run and the specs might change in the future.

Now for those of you bid less then $20 I have not forgot about you. Astawerks owns several websites such as cheaptravelforums.com and upchuckr.com plus a few others. I will give you free adspace of text links on these sites for 1 month plus you also have the chance to have a free blog entry on this very blog :).

I am very much dedicated to doing this differently and bring to you the most unique ideas that you can think of. I hope that you like what I have to offer and please leave me any suggestions on anything that you would like to see.

Sorry but this offer is only for new link submissions only.

Doug