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The Freakonomics Blog's interview with Jay Adelson of Digg.

The Freakonomics blog is having Jay Adelson come to answer questions suggested in comments by readers.

Essentially, the 45-minute answer session seemed to almost seemed to be a “Yes, we hear your bitchememes, there’s not much we can do about how people choose to use it, get over it.”

Digg users tend to get pissed off about a lot of things. Any story about Microsoft, for example. Or anything that criticizes Apple. ...

   Where Digg CEO Jay Adelson and Digg Founder Kevin Rose answered some questions, but not others. Wonder how they'll do in front of a live studio audience?

This last week in the tech world ended up being much bigger than it began. We discuss Microsoft’s proposal to purchase Yahoo!, Amazon’s acquirement of Audible, Pirate Bay charged with copyright infringement, Facebook apps on any website, and more...

Clever. And, potentially very damaging to the owners of Digg who may be involved in valuation exercises with potential investors and may have other ways of telling their story.

Guess what. Autobury exists. Despite questions being sidestepped by Jay Adelson (who answered a direct question about autobury by asking Why would we want to do that?), there is too much evidence to the contrary.

So, my summary is that I think Digg remains mostly a US phenomenon with most of the users signing up while at work.

There are a few things Digg CEO Jay Adelson would like to get off his chest. First of all, the so-called "Digg revolt" that took place last night? It wasn't really a revolt, he says. For those who missed it, several of the top diggers -- including And