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Just out of curiosity I checked digg’s top 15 dugg stories in news for the past 365 days.

1. Digg’s April Fool’s Day Joke?

A blog post about digg and its users - 30631 diggs

2.Digg this if you are sick of $cientologists burying articles

One of many Scientology stories - 24232 diggs

3.   Heath Ledger is Dead

The death of Heath Ledger - 21427 diggs

4. George Carlin has died

Death of the legendary American comedian - 18867 diggs

5. The iPhone is a piece of ***** and so is your face

A blog post about the virtues of the Nokia E70 - 17673 diggs

6. Click if your computer screen is dirty.

“Clean your computer screen through the internets” (link no longer available) - 17268 diggs

7. Paris Hilton loses inheritance

But of course, a Paris story - 14880 diggs

8. Google Drive killer coming from MIT Startup

A web application to store and share files online - 11543 diggs

9. Photo taken With and Without Flash

Photos  taken with and with out Flash! As in Flash Gordon! - 11152 diggs

10. Why You Should Download Firefox 3 Right Now!

A review before the release of Firefox 3 web browser - 10863 diggs

Six of these stories were made popular only this year. What, no economic crisis? No, fight against global terrorism? Note that these stories were all classified under the most popular news items for the past year.

Popularity: 24% [?]

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