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Here's a community I could learn quite a bit from. I wish I could be an active participant in the photography reddit community, but I'm a total camera n00b. That said, one active redditor took the time to write up the site on the GiiNii blog.

If you have never visited Reddit, you don’t know what you’re missing. Reddit is a great (the best, in my opinion) social media site. Users from all over the world go to Reddit to submit links to interesting Web sites they find. And now, Reddit has a photography page.

Called a subreddit, the Photography page allows users to post interesting pictures, tricks and tutorials. It’s a great community with lots of discussion about cameras and photography in general.

Want an easy way to get quoted on my blog? Say incredibly flattering things about reddit. It's easy!

That said, I actually just found a slick (free!) auto image stitcher thanks to this reddit. Huzzah!

Last Thursday we announced our most radical reddit redesign yet: WeHeartGossip.

Dear readers, you'll find that this community is perfect for all of your shameful brain-indulgences. And by that I mean it's full of celebrity gossip; in case the name didn't give it away.

You may notice a few ads around the CondéNet empire for it, but I also designed one specifically for the reddit community. I wonder if advertising can have the same effect as peer pressure...

After flipping the switch, I was asked by Brent Csutoras about why we're moving away from Lipstick (a site we developed back in 2006) and to a new, slightly more pink gossip site.

My response:

“We thought the lipstick brand was too geared toward women and men who wear lipstick. As a man who doesn’t wear lipstick, but is curious about Natalie Portman’s dating habits, I personally wanted a site that was less pigeonholing.

The important thing for us was to create a new vertical that was totally unrelated to the existing Reddit network. Celebrity gossip was about as unrelated as we could get, as you pointed out by the low subscription count.

The goal with WeHeartGossip is to create a standalone site; subscription count isn’t a focus, traffic is. That, and Devendra Banhart — I can’t believe Nat is dating him…"

Nat, I know you're reading this. All I'm asking for is a second chance. I'll leave my lightsaber at home. I promise.

Martin Sargent invited me to an interview on his show, Internet Superstar, over at Revision3. They've been doing some great work; I'm just sorry they've hit such a low and brought me on.

The breadpig already blogged this, but in case you missed it:I didn't want to be a lousy guest, so I brought a few gifts. I wonder if they've gone skeet shooting with the bobblehead yet...

I stumbled across a blog entry on the Utah State University Philosophy Departments website that reviewed our philosophy reddit community. Now I feel like I ought to design a custom logo for them, but Rodin's Thinker just seemed too cliche.

One quote that philosophy reddit submitter irony was most accurate:

Many of the regular users are really quite sharp, and they do not suffer fools gladly!

With some luck, a few new people interested in philosophy discovered reddit as a result. Thought, it may come back to haunt them around finals once they learn what it does to productivity...

Here's an interesting post by zgiltner from a Human-Computer Interaction blog on the Sociability of reddit.

My favorite part of the analysis is below -- the observer rightly addresses the striking differences between communities.

Coordination

There are many different subreddits which coordinate the where people may look for certain subjects. In the screenshot I posted the article was submitted in the politics subreddit. The entire culture of commentors varies vastly from the “bacon” subreddit to the “vegan” subreddit. This allows users to narrow down their conversations. Users have been known to post other articles related to the discussion of the conversation, allowing further research on whatever topic and continuing conversation can happen.

I like propaganda as much as the next guy, but when it's starring Luke Skywalker, it achieves a new level of awesomeness.

What started as a popular reddit submission has now been anointed 'approved' fan artwork by the Lucas folks.

In fact, as my pal Pete (maker of Brawndo, what plants crave) noted in an email to me, the poster is now for sale (along with shirts).

Scott Beale, friend of the breadpig, just blogged about a certain kit of magnetic LOL poetry.

This is especially appropriate given Scott was the first person to ever document LOLmagnetz. That was back in April at ROFLCon. Many thanks to Scott for his continued support of breadpig's inanity.

A fellow cephalopod-lover, he also has great taste in friends, as evidenced by this picture.

Jeremy passed along this neat Google trick (for their 10th birthday) to search in the past -- 2001 to be precise, their oldest index. All the results are what you'd have seen in that glorious year of my high school graduation.

The results for "reddit" were a tad different, to say the least.

Jim Hopkinson came up with the idea for a back to school ad to run on Wired and a few other non-reddit places within the CondéNet empire. I sat down yesterday and with some help from an old reddit avatar slapped this ad together.

And after hearing that our wrecking bar was received in Switzerland, I got inspired to do this house ad for gaming reddit. I'm clearly trying to start a feud between gaming and science communities.

My secret weapon in the Pecha Kucha competition of the Business of Software Conference was to purge my presentation of any useful content and then fill that void with creamy nougat.

The result was Pierre Francois' second talk on Web 2.0 startups. He's recently started a company of his own, called 74 Signals. The guru is back, folks.

Neil Davidson kindly edited and uploaded the video. Keep an eye open for the Mister Splashy Pants shoutout.