My first digg success

It's rare that I visit digg.com. But after my post on theappleblog.com regarding the insane iTunes spender, I thought I might head over, search around and see if anyone "dugg" it. To my complete surprise, it was on the home page. As of this writing, 10-1/2 hours after it was submitted, it has 1,237 diggs and 160 comments. Based on those comments, theappleblog.com site was unavailable at some point today, presumably because of The Digg Effect.

A couple of other funny and/or interesting comments I read were:

• The new attack on marriage is now iTunes and not gays.
• Pirating saves marriages!
• I think for that she should be allowed to keep the ring cause the guy is obviously a moron.
• With the guy spending 8k a month on iTunes, I am surprised Steve Jobs hasn't proposed to him.

Of course, it just couldn't be submitted to digg without writing a new, less-factual headline: $8000 worth of iTunes songs per month costs…1 Fiancée; Wedding Called Off

The original information stated only that the fiancé "had charged more than 8,000 iTunes at 99 cents each," not that he had charged $8,000 worth of iTunes. If he purchased 8,050 iTunes songs (which meets the criteria of more than 8,000) it would actually only equal $7,969.50. He would've had to charge a minimum of 8,081 songs in order to rack up an $8,000 bill. It's quite possible that the digger's headline is true, but neither he nor I know that for certain. But headlines on digg submissions range from the slightly inaccurate to wildly untruthful, so this one wasn't too bad, just unnecessary.

Hopefully all this traffic will result in Dalton Ross getting more people reading his blog, since that's where this information came from in the first place.

$8000 worth of iTunes songs per month costs…1 Fiancée; Wedding Called Off

In looking at his last bill (for one month) he had charged more than 8,000 iTunes at 99 cents each and had charges at places that sell music and movies, too. This guy made $45,000 a year. Called off the wedding.