Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg.com, has responded with his own thoughts on the user revolt that occurred last night on DIgg.

"But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."

An interesting event for sure, where the people really did make a stand and it made a difference. It's good to see a positive effect on even large websites against corporate advertisers. Good Job Kevin!

A recent flood of stories posted to Digg today are seemingly bogus posts but with massive amounts of diggs. Recently, posts about HD-DVD being hacked had been posted around and now recently a full hex string is being passed around which apparently is the key to cracking HD-DVDs DRM. A user was even banned from Digg for posting the numbers on Digg. In any event, the users of Digg are in an outrage over the situation where they feel wronged by Diggs actions. It's also been noted that HD-DVD is a sponsor of DiggNation which is where much of this controversy may stem from. Below is a screen of Digg's home page while getting bombed, click the image for larger.

A screen of Digg's home page while getting bombed, click the image for larger.

In a press release, Apple announced the 100 Millionth iPod sold a record for music players. The release reads "...making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history."

Yesterday Steve Jobs wrote an open letter to the world titled "Thoughts on Music" in which he discusses the current state of digital music and DRM. He writes about people claiming they have this hold on the entire industry because of Apple's own DRM called FairPlay. Steve defines three possible ways how to deal with this: Keep going as is, the system works and just the same, others are doing it as well; Open FairPlay, which would force them to reveal how FairPlay is implemented in eventually leak secrets allowing hackers the ability to crack the DRM; and lastly is to remove any DRM from all files in which any player could play the file without restriction.

Well, it's not really new. I've just updated the look a little bit and changed blogging platforms. I've decided to use Rapid Weaver by Realmacsoftware. An iWeb like web page development tool but with far superior code handling, extensibility, publishing and theme creation. I like using a desktop app over going to Blogger or even firing up crusty ole Ecto (though it is a great blogging tool, just a little long in the tooth if you ask me). So here I am - new tool, new theme. I'll be back very soon.