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July 07, 2007

Digg credulity

Digg credulity: The headline is "How Adobe Labs Completely Ripped Off A Blogger", and the destination link has the more moderate title "For the Record: Adobe Kuler vs COLOURlovers". The core of the complaint is that both projects help in sharing color sets, both use greyscale interfaces, and that the two names both have a "U" in them. The Digg article got promoted to frontpage overnight, and the comments this morning are very, very certain of what reality is all about. Depressing, true, yet somehow this species has managed to survive through the year 2007... how, oh how do we do it...? ;-)

Posted by JohnDowdell at July 7, 2007 07:34 AM

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If you choose the "Sort by Date (Show All)" option then there's actually a mix of viewpoints.

Posted by: John Dowdell at July 7, 2007 08:28 AM

I just finished reading that thread. I always find it interesting that stories on Digg make it to the top because they are dugg by people without a clue, then the people with a better idea about things have to come in and clean up the mess.

There is definitely a progression in the comments from top to bottom. First the sensationalists who like to hear themselves talk. Then the moderates who think something might be fishy about the argument. Then the people with more informed opinions followup. I see this happen over and over again on Digg.

Posted by: Rick Mason at July 7, 2007 08:39 AM

This is something that Darius has brought up many times before in the past. I think the popularity of COLOURlovers finally got attention from the "mainstream." If the "U" argument doesn't do it for you, what will? I'd be interested to learn more about Kuler's true history and beginnings. If memory serves, it came out of Adobe Illustrator.

Posted by: senocular at July 7, 2007 08:41 AM

There's an interesting comment and link right at the end from a developer of another colour chooser that sheds some light on the mindset of the colourlovers Darius: http://www.colr.org/darius.html

Posted by: Mike Duguid at July 8, 2007 01:15 PM