The Twelfth Disquisition: 210 Reasons for the decline of the Digg Empire

Topics Discussed:

• The Decline and Fall of Digg
• The Social Fragmentation of Reddit
• Social Media as a Geopolitical Metaphor
• Migratory Patterns of Internet Users
• Demographic Focused Social Media
• Phone Booths in NY becoming Wi-Fi hot spots
• Derpa = Skynet
• The Carnation Revolution
• The Cultural Revolution in China
• Ballardian Concepts
• Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
• Evolving OWS and The Tea Party

Recommended Reading:

• Running Wild by J. G. Ballard
• The Making of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
• 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire by Demandt
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
• Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Fluff Principle by Paul Graham
• Portugal: The Impossible Revolution? by Phil Mailer
• Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan
• The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
• A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee
• A Study of History:Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold J. Toynbee

Recommended Viewing:

• Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present directed by Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre

Recommended Links:

• 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire
• The Atlantic: The Big Digg Lesson
• Flickr: Reserved for Lenin
• Forbes: Facebook Didn't Kill Digg, Reddit Did
• Forbes: The Lessons For Facebook, Twitter And Reddit In Digg's Demise
• Forbes: Reddit Didn't Kill Digg, Digg Killed Digg (Now With Extra Insights!)
• Gigaom: New York starts turning payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots
• Paul Graham: The Fluff Principle
• Venture Beat: Digg sells to Betaworks for the fire sale price of… $500K (analysis)
• The Wall Street Journal: Digg sells to tech development firm Betaworks for $500,000
• Wikipedia: Arnold J. Toynbee
• Wikipedia: Carnation Revolution
• Wikipedia: Marina Abramović
• Wired: Darpa's Wall-of-Sound Fire Extinguisher

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Disquisition is a podcast documenting the meandering tangents and discursive ramblings within ongoing conversations between Greg Davies aka cGt2099 and Lee Garnett aka ncomment. The show goes in depth into a variety of thoughts ranging from socio-cultural elements and political elements within social media; to history and philosophy, and a variety of book and film recommendations.

Music used in the Disquisition Intro and Closing Theme was performed and written by Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox

Catch Greg Davies online at the Social Blend Podcast and on Twitter @cGt2099

Catch Lee Garnett online at his ncomment comics blog and on Twitter @ncomment

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