As you guys may or may not know, Digg had a prominent article this morning that revealed a hack of HD-DVD players that allowed people to take the film off of the cd. At this point in time, every article on the digg main page has to do with the hack, except from a different angle. Apparently, Diggs coverage of the hack ticked off some important people in the copyright business. Now digg is reporting that they have to remove every entry that eludes to the hack. I thought it was pretty awesome that the articles on digg mustered over 10,000 diggs, which means that the hack must have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people (I am just making up numbers, but I bet they are reasonably close.).

So this is a little morbid, but the recent demise of Anna Nicole is a really good case study, I think, to show the effectiveness of blogs as a source of news. Within moments of her death, the news had already reached the blogosphere, and there have been consistent and constant updates since. In a matter of hours we have headlines going from "Anna Nicole Rushed To The Hospital" to "Anna Nicole Smith Likely Dead" to "It's Official: Anna Nicole Smith Is Dead" to ones questioning what will happen to her daughter to ones asking about whether she overdosed. There's even footage leaked of her being taken in a stretcher to the hostpital (I'm not going to link to it...).