Word’s out that Comcast was hacked last night. I guess it serves them right for “throttling activities“. What this means precisely I don’t know but I’m guessing that the download speeds for torrent related activities probably had a governor placed on them.

This is a great bit of media that fits the Digg demographic perfectly. Apparently there are loads of other people who think the same thing. If we go to Digg and search for stories submitted with the word ‘Comcast’ in the title and sort by newest submissions first, we can see who’s submitting this story, who was the first, and who’s received the most Diggs so far. In the image below, the submission with 10 Diggs was the first person to break this story on Digg. But even though they were the first, they’re obviously not the most successful. The story right above it has 39 Diggs, probably because it is accompanied by an image. Two submissions up from that has 32 Diggs, note the word HACKED is capitalized.

So what’s this telling us? It really doesn’t matter when the story was submitted, what matters is the way in which the title was written, the amount of apparent information you use to support your submission, and your influence within the network. So when submitting, maybe a good acronym to remember would be TRI:

• Title
• References
• Influence

I wanted to create and easy way to search for the things I sought within a targeted list of sites. This translates into a customized search engine. I know Google’s had an app like this for a while but I wanted to give Rollyo a shot. I was reminded of this service when reading SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 award winners. Rollyo allows you do create your own little search engines. I say “little” because unfortunately Rollyo only allows you to add 25 sites to your custom engine. I have 469 SEO and SEM blogs that I need to enter into a CSE and Rollyo couldn’t cut the cake. So I went over to Google’s CSE app and created my own. I’ve pasted the search box code below. Have fun!