Have you always wondered how the places where you submit stories in hopes of getting a little love and attention for them worked? Giants like Google and Digg are ultra secretive with their infamous algorithms, but other social news and social sharing sites are a bit more open. SEOMoz wrote a great post cracking the algorithms of four of the heaviest hitters. To be honest, seeing the algorithms in their mathematical formats makes my head hurt. I’m not sure about anyone else who reads Blorge, but I’m just not a math junkie. [...] ...