Thumbs Up: Digg Wasn’t A Failure, It Was A Beginning

“Don’t let him climb a wall. We haven’t finalized his life insurance plan.” That was one of the first directions I was given at Digg when I started in early 2008. “Him” was Kevin Rose, the founder of the widely popular social news site, and I was on my third day. It was widely known that Kevin was an avid rock climber, though he had recently been extending this skill to common household...