What happened on Digg yesterday did not have to happen. It was the wisdom of the crowd spiraling downward into a perfect storm of mob rule. The two main factors that contributed to the strength of said storm are the Digg community’s disdain for DRM and the general unawareness of the fact that Digg has […]
Add another one to the pile. MySpace is the latest of the big players to adopt the socially driven model for news delivery. Being one of the top 10 most visited sites on the web, its natural to expect a lot from such an offering. It also begs the question, with a user count that […]
Here’s a list of ideas I’ve had over the past year or so while using social news sites. Most of them are ideas that I think would improve sites like Digg, Netscape and Reddit in one way or another. Admittedly, one or two of them would just be interesting to see implemented on an experimental […]
Have you ever tried to participate on one of the big social news sites and found that you just didn’t fit in? Perhaps the problem is the level of conversation. Perhaps it is the community’s main interests. Did you know there are a world of alternatives out there which cater to niche interests, each with […]
It takes a certain type of personality to climb the ranks on sites such as Digg. Here are some traits that are common among the most active social newsies.
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Over the past month a slew of big players have unveiled socially driven applications that all seem to have one thing in common: Digg. Here’s a rundown of new sites that have raised some eyebrows over the last month.
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Last night, AOTS called Digg’s credibility into question with this segment on social media. In doing so, they hosted a panel discussion with experts Annalee Newitz of Wired and David Ewalt from Forbes.com. Annalee recently made waves with an exposé on how she bought votes on Digg.
What they fail to disclose in between jabs at […]
Conservapedia is a newly launched wiki which purports to be the Fox News of internet encyclopedias. I’ve been getting a kick out of comparing the entries on Conservapedia to their counterparts on Wikipedia. So I made a bookmarklet to make it easier to jump back and forth between like-named entries.
To use it, just save or […]
There are some things social news has yet to master. Here are some types of content and methods of aggregation that have proved clumsy or non-existent on social news sites.
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From a Digg user’s point of view, Spotplex is a site that takes all the work out of social news. Users don’t need to submit, vote or comment on content. This begs the question: is the future of social news automated?
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