Comments on: Do You Trust Digg?

By: Ed Kohler

Ed Kohler — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:58:44 +0000

I think Kevin’s right in his comment that people should look for other Digg users with similar interests for interesting stories. However, the site could be better at enabling that.

By: Where does community end and “gaming” start?

Where does community end and “gaming” start? — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:49:15 +0000

[...] As Scott Karp (who writes about the recent Digg move here) says in a recent post, companies like Digg live by the community and die by the community. Steve O’Hear at ZDNet has some thoughts about the Digg move, and Josh Bokardo thinks Digg may be in for a surprise. Steve Rubel thinks Digg needs to start paying Diggers or it may be doomed. Mark Evans has a take on the recent move too. And there actually seems to be some support for the idea of removing the top Diggers list on the Digg site itself. Technorati Tags: Digg, game, social networks, Web2.0 [...]

By: Sebastien Provencher

Sebastien Provencher — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:36:53 +0000

As a trend tracker, I was “in love” with Digg in the last 6 to 9 months but I’ve recently discovered that TechMeme now provides me with the same kind of excitement I was getting from Digg at the beginning. It might be that Digg has overextended its community reach. It might be that we’ve all discovered no one has a real chance to submit a story that will make it to the top. I’m not sure. I still enjoy looking at upcoming stories though (especially the Hot upcoming stories).

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:36:32 +0000

I work in media monitoring, so I have been watching Digg for a while now and found it to be an interesting tool. I’m not sure you could turn this community in to a major money maker, but with all those visitors I can see why everyone thinks that he should. Are their results biased… probably, but then again, most news aggregators are biased to some extent, or are completely automated machines that have little reasoning, of ability to place things in context. Digg to me is a cool site for people who enjoy reading news, and it reflects its users, who are a bunch of humans with individual perspectives and agendas.