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By: Can You Digg It? | Dairies Around The World

Can You Digg It? | Dairies Around The World — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:51:26 +0000

[...] Arrington of Techcrunch adds, Troubles in Diggville, To some this is troubling because it removes the supposedly democratic nature of Digg. Unlike [...]

By: Solomon

Solomon — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:13:35 +0000

I add 10 diggs for interest news but i do not see top and coment. Help me please. :O(

By: shmula » Digg as a Game

shmula » Digg as a Game — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:07:04 +0000

[...] Arrington suggested the following: I think this is the right thing to do. Digg needs to continue to encourage people to recommend stories to their friends, but also find ways to get truly unique and interesting stories to the home page without the sponsorship of a Digg user group. Hopefully the algorithm changes will help. Another suggestion to improve things that I recently passed on to Digg CEO Jay Adelson: weigh a story digg more if it comes from perusing the “upcoming stories” area v. someone hitting the story via a direct link. Since friends often email or IM stories around via the direct link, it’s more likely to be a vote from a group. A digg from the upcoming stories page is much more likely to simply be a user reviewing stories and picking the ones that he or she thinks are important. [...]

By: How To Split An Atom | How To Spot A Cyber Bully

How To Split An Atom | How To Spot A Cyber Bully — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:49:33 +0000

[...] More benign are troubles like those faced by sites like Digg, where individuals are banding together in blocks to game the system, voting up stories that they want and voting down stories that bother them. While some might say this sort of mob rule is exactly what Digg was meant to create, it is hard to believe that Kevin Rose really wants organized cabals to win out over true Democracy. [...]

By: Whatever’s Interesting (To Us) » The Digg Effect

Whatever’s Interesting (To Us) » The Digg Effect — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:29:38 +0000

[...] Users of Digg may or may not recall the phenomenon of “Karma Whoring” that threatened Slashdot years ago. In brief, a certain subset of Slashdot users were essentially spamming the site to get “karma”, a (limited) form of social recognition on Slashdot. Slashdot responded, eventually, by introducing arbitrary limits to the amount of karma any user could receive, both in total and for a single comment or other contribution. In changing Slashdot’s community dynamic, the site angered and alienated many of the users who had spent lots of time building up legitimate karma, arguing that they were being lumped in with others whose contributions were of a low general quality. I had forgotten all about that piece of history until the current top-user behavior “crisis” hit Digg recently. Techcrunch has a good wrap-up of the issue that you should read if you’re unaware of what’s going on with Digg these days. [...]

By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » Troubles in Diggville

EveryDigg » Blog Archive » Troubles in Diggville — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:05:30 +0000

[...] Techcruch review of recent controversy regarding groups of Diggers controlling the front page. A good overview of the problem and an excerpt of Kevin’s responseread more | digg story [...]

By: Tech Industry » Troubles in Diggville

Tech Industry » Troubles in Diggville — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:52:27 +0000

[...] Techcruch review of recent controversy regarding groups of Diggers controlling the front page. A good overview of the problem and an excerpt of Kevin’s responseread more | digg story [...]

By: Apple buys Digg for $40M at SaRiSaRi

Apple buys Digg for $40M at SaRiSaRi — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:09:44 +0000

[...] Apple buys digg for $40M and will rename the popular website iDigg. Not true! But with rise of Apple-related stories in the front page and the controversies hounding it, Kevin Rose better sell it to Apple. Apple fanboys dominate it anyway. And here’s 5 reasons why digg sucks. [...]

By: Fleet Street 2.0 » Blog Archive » Can Digg be democratic?

Fleet Street 2.0 » Blog Archive » Can Digg be democratic? — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:20:22 +0000

[...] Digg is often held up as the quintessential “Web 2.0” concept that harnesses the “wisdom of crowds” to highlight information of interest to its community of users. But the critics say that far from being this apparently democratic form of news selection, critics say that a small inner core of heavy users carry disproportionate weight on the site by submitting many stories and voting for each other’s submissions. In response, founder Kevin Rose promised changes to the Digg ranking algorithm to reward diversity of interest in a story. [...]

By: How To Split An Atom | How To Ring In The New Week

How To Split An Atom | How To Ring In The New Week — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:15:05 +0000

[...] Top digg user quits, people accuse the site of gaming, Jason Calacanis puts away his Kevin Rose voodoo doll. [...]

By: Revisiting Top 10 Web Predictions of 2006 » Conversion Rater

Revisiting Top 10 Web Predictions of 2006 » Conversion Rater — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 06:57:43 +0000

[...] I was half right on this one. Digg did indeed expand into other content areas and media types, but no acquisition has occurred. Will that still happen? There hasn’t been any buzz around it lately, and Digg has gone through some recent problems as bloggers have noticed that Digg might not be as democratic as we thought, and they’ve lost some top users to Netscape’s offer to pay top social news finders. [...]

By: accelzone - techie weblog » Top social media users getting paid; is the balance shifting?

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:05:58 +0000

[...] To put the recent debates about Digg (our coverage) and Netscape (our coverage) in context, here’s an overview of some of the key events unfolding right now that are blurring the line between amateur users and professional content producers. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Top social media users getting paid; is the balance shifting?

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:57:40 +0000

By: Netscape’s Calacanis has the last laugh?

Netscape’s Calacanis has the last laugh? — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:22:06 +0000

[...] Due to a widespread perception that Digg is controlled by a small but influential cabal of users, Kevin Rose announced that Digg is changing its front page algorithm. Which promptly touched off a super-user rebellion … and interesting reflections on what a Digg without top users would look like. Top Digg users removed their user icons in protest. [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:40:58 +0000

Here is a good example of how Digg users can bury a story.
http://hubpages...t_Trashing_Site

By: I’m an Evil Genius » Blog Archive » Troubles in Diggville

I’m an Evil Genius » Blog Archive » Troubles in Diggville — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:13:55 +0000

[...] read more | digg story [...]

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Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:36:20 +0000

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By: Jeff the astonished

Jeff the astonished — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:31:51 +0000

I’ve managed to stumble upon many words like democracy, journalism and news…In most cases they’re used in the same sentence…

Shame on all of you for thinking that the news is journalism.

IT’S ENTERTAINMENT!

The finger of shame is also pointed to those of you that think democracy has anything to do with the private world of business.

Digg that!

By: Adotas » Identifying Social News Clustering

Adotas » Identifying Social News Clustering — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:59:00 +0000

[...] Kevin’s idea for Digg has always been a utopian one. No editors. All users are registered as equal, with certain inalienable rights endowed by Digg. But as Mike Arrington of TechCrunch says, “If Digg is being corrupted by a relatively small group of users, the difference between Digg and the NYT becomes less clear.” [...]

By: Deep Jive Interests » Digg on Record: Partial Transcript Answers Some, Not All, Questions.

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:54:27 +0000

[...] I’ve said it before — and a few Diggers have mention the same: it might just be better to eliminate the structures which facilitate circle-digging altogether. Yup — Mike Arrington hit it right on the head with this one. I think the main culprit is the function where you’re able to see what ALL of your friends are digging. Either de-weight those votes (which seems like a complicated solution), or eliminate that function altogether. [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:17:17 +0000

Stephan,

This is exactly what i meant… I mentioned NYT because I’ve read several articles where Digg compares itself to NYT in term of page views, alexa ranking and more…

but what Digg seriously lacks in is exactly this quality and professional editorial control older media outlets maintain…etc, etc

in my view Digg is good web 2.0 like web site, trendy, good alexa ranking, a proven tool for a limited group of people to do web based PR, but nothing more, I see no serious business model behind that would potentially last longer and outlive its trend…

Btw, the same situation has recently happened with Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica … the first has plenty of crap content, spammy links and sometimes plays serious but not fair role on corporate level by proclaiming already popular brands even further while the second hasn’t low-quality content, never performed cheap PR for others, yet the first one outgrows in popularity its old rival. What about dmoz.org…this popular directory from the nineties where “top users ala Digg’s” publish “very selectively” the web sites , etc, etc…

I think something bigger stands behind all that happens, it is all about the “war” in between the old traditional names and businesses and the newly established yet popular concepts.. etc, etc,
Thanks for the attention anyway

By: » Blog Archive » Week of Shame for Product Changes.

» Blog Archive » Week of Shame for Product Changes. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:26:58 +0000

[...] Digg loses face. Facebook digs hole. First there’s trouble in diggville (potential top user resignation), now Zuckerburg is backpeddling on Facebook’s recent facelift. I’d have to say that as an avid Facebook user, I wasn’t pleased with the a) flood of info flooding my front page and b) every minor change in my life being spammed to my whole friend list. Yes, all that data was available to all of my friends already, but there’s still some added privacy in fact that my more distant friends had to root our that information on their own. I’d have to say I’m impressed with how quickly Facebook responded to the complaints and added privacy controls to the mini feeds. After all, the added privacy controls are why I like Facebook over the voyeuristic wild-wild-West of MySpace. It’s also one of the reasons I feel more comfortable putting accurate information into my account, thereby adding to Facebook’s marketing power over MySpace (There are a lot of young looking 100 year olds on the site). Considering this latest debacle, I’m curious about how user will react if Facebook ever pursues a GMail-style account mining to serve up contextual advertising… [...]