In the not-quite-a-year period I’ve been a digg.com member, I’ve come to appreciate the people who work hard to make it a great site, not just Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, but the users themselves who submit truly fantastic content. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the top 25 digg.com users (as listed at http://digg.com/topusers) and see what each of these members submitted as their very first story, and see what was the first story they ever submitted that made it all the way to the GLORIOUS front page.

 

Some of them (albertpacino comes to mind) had a not-so-interesting first story submitted, which also makes this list very interesting – not everyone who’s hot now on Digg.com started that way.

 

These Top 25 I have chosen mostly because I didn't want to type any further, but seriously because they literally have changed the way I surf FOREVER. I know it's hard work to submit hundreds of articles a day, so thank you all you hard-working diggers, you are absolutely the reason my internet habits have been forever changed.

 

So, without further delay, I bring you the Digg.com Top 25 User List – Complete with First Post.

 

#1 - Albertpacino:

 

1^st ever submitted: http://digg.com/links/World_s_First_Golden_Newspaper_

1^st ever frontpaged: http://digg.com/links/How_fast_are_your_reactions_

User’s Listed Website:

http://albertpacino.com

 

 

#2 - Jem

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/design/Host_your_own_photo_site

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/design/Host_your_own_photo_site

User’s Listed Website:

http://jembrotherhood.com/

 

#3 – DarkHack

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/technology/Bill_Gate_Is_A_Knight

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/technology/Bill_Gate_Is_A_Knight

User’s Listed Website:

http://www.rongthach.com

 

#4 – tommytrc

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/apple/Create_your_own_“life_poster‟ (This link does not work, not sure why – check out his profile here)

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/apple/Installing_OS_X_on_a_PC

User’s Listed Website:

http://www.sparkatopia.com/

 

#5 – 1gunit

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/music/another_one_BITs_the_dust

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/links/why_do_some_people_cheat_on_this_site_im_talkin_to_you_lineman

User’s Listed Website:

http://da1gunit.blogspot.com/

 

#6 – snipehack

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/apple/Steve_Jobs_on_list_of_most_influential_people_in_world_today

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/apple/Steve_Jobs_on_list_of_most_influential_people_in_world_today

User’s Listed Website:

http://snipehack.com/

 

#7 – summer2005

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Microsoft_turns_humble…admits_Linux_is_a_winner_

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Microsoft_turns_humble…admits_Linux_is_a_winner_

User’s Listed Website:

None

 

#8 – bonlebon

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/links/LucasArts:_The_Xmas_bonus_Nazis,_no_bonus_for_you_

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/links/Phoon:_the_odd_pose_for_pictures.

User’s Listed Website:

http://bonlebon.blogspot.com/

 

#9 – Ostermayer

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/gaming/GTA_for_free

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/gaming/GTA_for_free

User’s Listed Website:

http://ostermayer.us/

 

#10 – sahaskatta

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/apple/Apple_iPhone

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/apple/Apple_iPhone

User’s Listed Website:

http://blogger.sahaskatta.com/

 

#11 – johkalhaups

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/technology/HP_to_Sell_Linux-Based_Home_Media_Hub

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/security/This_Site_Will_Scare_You,_But_In_A_Good_Way_

User’s Listed Website:

http://www.thehangoutsite.com/

 

#12 – ncaa76

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/software/New_Hi-res_screenshots_of_Unreal_3

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/software/New_Hi-res_screenshots_of_Unreal_3

User’s Listed Website:

None

 

#13 – mbeck145

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/security/Court:_Mom_s_Eavesdropping_Violated_Law

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/security/Court:_Mom_s_Eavesdropping_Violated_Law

User’s Listed Website:

http://www.section3.net/moblog

 

#14 – scottwills

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/technology/UK_net_users_leading_TV_downloads

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/technology/New_find_could_revolutionize_electronics

User’s Listed Website:

http://www.scottwills.co.uk/

 

#15 – jefflundberg

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/software/Windows_XP_Command-line_reference_A-Z

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/software/Windows_XP_Command-line_reference_A-Z

User’s Listed Website:

http://jefflundberg.com/

 

#16 – Gunn

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/security/Microsoft_Releases_Malicious_Software_Removal_Tool_Version_1.1

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/technology/Class_clown_now_nets_1_million_hits_a_day

User’s Listed Website:

http://www.gunnsdeals.net/

 

#17 – MrCalifornia

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/movies/Hacking_Netflix

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/links/How_to_get_the_perfect_shave

User’s Listed Website:

http://whitehotnow.blogspot.com/

 

#18 – jsavitt

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/technology/_In_My_Humble_Opinion..._(IMHO)

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/software/South_Park_Character_Generator

User’s Listed Website:

http://ubergeek316.blogspot.com/

 

#19 – dtang

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/links/New_Tech_Update_Weblog

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/movies/Superbowl_XXXIX_Commercials_Banned_Included_

User’s Listed Website:

http://www.xeniac.com/

 

#20 – slowspin (That’s me!)

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/security/Follow-Up_to_the_Credit_Card_Prank

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/security/Follow-Up_to_the_Credit_Card_Prank

User’s Listed Website:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/slowspinrematch/

 

#21 – avijit

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/security/Nokia_smart_phones_under_attack

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/science/Things_That_Make_the_Earth_Go_Hm_

User’s Listed Website:

None

 

#22 – Justblaze

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/technology/Wi-Fi_standard_impasse_makes_802.11n_merger_likely

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/technology/Toshiba_Adds_Lightscribe_to_DVD_Drive

User’s Listed Website:

http://newtechfoundry.blogspot.com/

 

#23 – legionnrg

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/programming/96KB_Assembly_Game

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/programming/96KB_Assembly_Game

User’s Listed Website:

http://www.nathangillett.com/

 

#24 – kevinrose

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/links/Torrent_search_engine

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/links/Torrent_search_engine

User’s Listed Website:

http://kevinrose.com/

 

#25 – TeChGuRL19

 

1^st ever submitted:

http://digg.com/links/The_Screen_Savers_Name_Change_Confirmed_

1^st ever frontpaged:

http://digg.com/links/The_Screen_Savers_Name_Change_Confirmed_

User’s Listed Website:

None

 

What is interesting about this to me is that many of these members have quit submitting since a few months ago, so we will definitely see changes in the Top 25 as time goes by, but in the meantime, we can thank these hard-working users for submitting great content most of the time. And of course, thanks digg.com for a great idea and letting the users have control of what they want.