Daily Digg: Will Digg Get Flanked?
15.12.06 @ 11:00 amFitting that the Daily Digg’s subject would be, well, Digg. There has been quite a bit of controversy over some of Digg’s methods of chosing top stories - this is another well-written description of the problems. In a nutshell, the top of the Digg food-chain essentially controls what gets to the front page - that is most likely why the same sites and the same subjects (Wii articles 24/7) are on the front page. This is obviously far from the Democratic approach that Digg boasts and smaller, less-known sites that do not have the right “friends” have a snowball’s chance in hell to make it to the front page. Sadly, the very strength of social news is completely lost in this model.
Delicious seems to be the clear next-in-line to dethrone Digg if things continue as is and people become fed up with the status-quo. Reddit is another challenger, but its traffic is significantly lower and the ability to down-vote storied opens up the door for rampant gaming - something which seems to be fairly common as discussed on Reddit.
Social media/news was supposed to be the solution to the top-down information approach of traditional media. Sadly, the “new media” seems to be taking quite a few lessons from the old school.
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December 15th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
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Nice explanation of what is happening over at Digg (or at least the best that I’ve read)
Also, the best solutions I’ve read as well. Good article, hopefully Kevin and the team can get this under control in 2007.
December 16th, 2006 at 6:44 am
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I would welcome Delicious if it overthrew Digg. From sheerly personal preference I prefer the structure and find visits more rewarding.
December 17th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Thanks guys. I’m actually not the hugest fan of Digg as it is. If Delicious allowed a ‘blog this post’ feature, this would segment would definitely be ‘Daily Delicious’. That being said, Digg has some really good features (such as ‘Blog this post’) and has really pushed what social media can achieve. Let’s hope it reels itself in and addresses its own shortcomings.
December 19th, 2006 at 6:21 am
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I liked Digg back in the early days of it’s existence. Not many people knew about it, and those that actually used it saw the true value in it as opposed to the gaming that occurs daily now. I totally agree in that it would be nice for del.icio.us to completely overtake the Spam Troll Boogie Monster that Digg has become.