Getting on Digg is really quite easy for the common blogger. Here’s how in one easy step:

• Get a job writing for Engadget, Gizmodo, Arstechnica, Mashable, or TechCrunch.

What, did that sound cynical? Check the latest top stories on Digg and where they came from. That’s where you need to be to easily top Digg.

If a job change isn’t in your immediate future, you are stuck with other more complicated options, such as:

1. Get noticed by one of the above sites.
2. Get noticed by an A-lister.
3. Get noticed by a top Digger.
   (or)
4. Beg all your friends for a digg and hope that 1, 2, or 3 happens a bit belatedly.

So the questions is whether or not ‘Digg Begging’ is, as one of my friends put it, “tacky or just good marketing?” Is asking your friends for diggs in the same realm as editing your own Wikipedia entry, if you have one? (Of course, if you have one, you probably don’t have to ask. )

Because the Internet is just like Middle School, the best way to solve this dilemma is to enlist your friends to digg beg on your behalf. Like the loyal Christian who woos Roxanne on your behalf, they stand between you and the sting of rejection and accusations of vain self-promotion. Parry and riposte!

Proxy beggar or no, is asking for diggs just like passing out fliers to your garage band, hoping for the big time? Or is it uploading your picture to Hot or Not, hoping for lots of MySpace friends? What do you think?

PS: Would you mind digging this story for me? I mean, my friend wants to know if you’d digg this story for him, since his account is frozen. Yeah, that’s it.