According to a story over on Wired Blogs, when Rumsfeld resigned on Wednesday morning, the related story became the fastest Digg submission to hit the front page (in just three minutes!). Twenty minutes later, the story showed up on Google News.

According to the Wired Blog, in speaking about it at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, Digg founder Kevin Rose mentioned that "33% of the diggs for the Rumsfeld story happened when people saw the headline within Digg's Swarm and Stack tools."

Its cool to hear that the visualizations are still getting a lot of usage three and a half months after their initial release. I wish I had screenshot of Swarm when the story was breaking.

the flash kit stuff looks awesome. it'll be interesting to see the extent to which that stuff will be used.

btw, your blog is looking super goth right now, with the black + white and all the red from your current flickr stuff.

yea, it is looking pretty goth. maybe you should liven it up with some purple and fly paper.