Can You Digg It?
November 17, 2010
Automated systems with user generated content operate by rules different from those of traditional newspapers and magazines. Crowds can become mobs. Publishers prefer more genteel behaviors.
Digg, once your typical social information service, has now taken a vital step to become a market for socialization and newsgathering.
The site recently added a breaking news module and community team to aggregate should-be front page stories in efforts to become a source of news, says “Digg Adds Editors to Break News Faster.”
In the past, stories that garnered the most votes from users were then posted as front page articles, often taking a few hours for breaking news to become appropriate headlines. In today’s terms of real-time breaking news, this lengthy process made Digg a less than ideal destination for news junkies.
But with the addition of a new editorial layer, breaking news will now be posted in a more timely fashion for the typical online news seekers.
As the article says, the editors’ decisions “won’t directly affect the content that appears on the front page, but their recommendations will surely influence the stories that the Digg community will vote for.”
Hmm… sounds awfully familiar to Slashdot.
We think Digg is cool but we’d like to see something different and more innovated. Something that doesn’t resemble the recent past. Something…. What’s the word? Oh yeah, “new”. With some erratic online performance and stories that are not on the cutting edge, can you dig the service?
Leah Moody November 17, 2010
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