This guy sounds like an asshole. If he is so concerned about the current state of affairs he should write an application and show the world real problem solving concepts. Instead he rages about something and in the end pretends to be smarter than he actually is.
because almost all of the visitors of digg went to reddit. they are having hard time handling the traffic.. they're very unfortunate that they sold it to conde nast.
And it's more than just game systems. Phones and tablets will likely be replacing traditional PCs for most uses in the next several years, and according to Apple and Microsoft those devices are "consoles" too.
Wasn't exactly overnight (5 months)... And it ended up being more than a million because he reserved some pixels and then auctioned them off on ebay. $1,037,100, according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Homepage).