Fitting 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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