Normally, I do not submit my own websites to digg. However, I was really enthused about the best Firefox ad ever. Instead of submitting my post about the ad, I decided to just submit the image itself.

It worked. 80 diggs later, the link hits the front page of digg and the story starts to receive a lot of comments. I quickly realize that I need to monitor the traffic somehow, so I come up with an ingenious plan. I create an HTML document containing the Firefox ad, and place my Google Analytics code in the bottom. Then I rename the htm file to FirefoxAd.jpg, and replace the current image on the site.

Unfortunately, I didn’t realize at the time that some browsers will not render an HTML document as a JPG. It worked fine in Internet Explorer, but ironically, it does not work in some versions of Firefox. Ouch.

By the time I notice my error, the story has already been buried enough times that it gets removed from the front page.

I’m confident that if I hadn’t tampered with the image that it wouldn’t have been buried. In the end it received over 160 diggs. Oh well - I guess you can say that I got a small taste of the digg effect.