Finally Found Him!!

Today's Digg leader comes in the form of a specific location on Google Maps where Waldo, from the Where's Waldo? series, can be found. I've spared you the suspense and provided you with a screenshot from the map below. Here's why it works:


1) Comedy: Funny things work extremely well on Digg. It's in the nature of jokes to pass them on, or retell the joke, and the same is true for online jokes. How better to retell a joke than to Digg it, or email it to a friend? Besides, most people that use Digg are simply browsing to find interesting stories; they're not going to sit and read a thousand-page treatise on, say, economics. Keep it funny, keep it pithy.

2) Childhood reference: Remember, most Digg users are twenty/early thirty-somethings. This means references to child trends in the 80s/early 90s will bring back feelings of nostalgia and delight, and hopefully provoke a reaction like, "Oh, snap: I remember that!" References to Waldo accomplish just that. So do references to He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, etc.