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How prevalent is astroturfing on digg? There have been a few articles about companies buying FB likes and Twitter followers, how bad did it get at Digg? Secondly, how much influence do the top digg users really have on what makes it to the top of the page, and were there any major engineering decisions based on controlling them?

What, if anything, would you change about the structure of research? By that I mean (not an exhaustive list) - PhD to Postdoc to tenure cycle, the need to publish to make it through that cycle, researcher motivations vs funding sources, government funding stagnating and a shift to philanthropic funds for larger projects, etc.

What else can be done to increase the rate of knowledge discovery (and dissemination)?