Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Digg the Slashdot killer
Digg the Slashdot killer
Traffic to this website saw a nice jump earlier this week, and as it turns out, a website called Digg had a lot to do with it.
Digg fixes what is wrong with Slashdot – humans still make the often trivial selections there - and is in my humble opinion is what is needed to push blog reporting further forward, narrowing the gap between them and professional news websites.
The website allows readers to endorse stories (an endorsement is called a "digg"), the more digs the more relevant the story. Stories with enough diggs will get promoted to the homepage.
A natural setback with this kind of service is that stories with many diggs will automatically get more. But it will push hot blog postings forward, even if that story originated from a blog that only gets a few dozen pageviews per day.
