"All anyone sends on the WIN-wide mailing list is, 'Please digg my article.'" So says a member of AOL's blogging arm, Weblogs, Inc.

"Digging," of course, means voting for an article on Digg — the social news site now competing with AOL's new offering, Netscape Beta. Both WIN and Netscape are run by AOL rising star Jason Calacanis — who swears he's not competing with Digg. (Digg founder Kevin Rose begs to differ.)

"But someone scored major points recently," says the WINner, "by asking, 'Can someone 'Scape my article?'"

Mm, "scape." Like "scrape." Or "scab." How phonetically appropriate.

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