Comments on: I Hated Digg. Now I’m a Believer!

By: Adobe at the door of Microsoft’s Office

Adobe at the door of Microsoft’s Office — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:49:37 +0000

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By: Doin’ it and (nearly) Diggin’ it!

Doin’ it and (nearly) Diggin’ it! — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:59:17 +0000

[...] ‘blogger Brian over at NowSourcing – now a believer of Digg – provides a good break-out of the new [...]

By: brian

brian — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:47:09 +0000

@ravi: that’s the spirit. We’ll see how the dust settles on the new Digg changes.

By: ravi karandeekar

ravi karandeekar — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:44:31 +0000

I always loved Digg. Now, i love it more.

By: brian

brian — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:17:01 +0000

@BarbaraKB: great points! Love it or hate it, the new features are keeping users on their toes! It will be interesting to see how the news story topics may change.

By: BarbaraKB

BarbaraKB — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:10:40 +0000

All good commentary here. We shall see. There are many spammers over at digg who are also *very* happy with the changes, not just the *big* users and submitters. There are new ways to abuse digg now and you can head over there today to find out how they’re doing ;-}. Hopefully, those spammer issues will be addressed also.

Me? I’ve added more friends and may be deleting others. We’ll see more MSM news and less of the weird and wild that the kewl kids love. That may be good. I honestly think that’s what Mr. Rose wants ‘cuz many advertisers won’t go *near* digg. They just might in the next 3 months. Time will tell, in the mean time, come on over and digg!

Peace.

By: brian

brian — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:17:04 +0000

@wayne: believe it. Many Diggers don’t want Digg to become a Myspace or Facebook, and prefer to separate the social news from the social networking.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:14:27 +0000

There’s been the odd few “the sky is falling” headlines, but I can’t honestly figure out what their problem is.

How on earth adding tools to allow people to actually communicate directly can be perceived as being bad is utterly perplexing.

For me, Digg took a major and decisive step forward…

By: brian

brian — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:33:18 +0000

@alfredko: the share story is all over the place: in the top stories, different categories, upcoming, etc. It’s in line with the other options:
comments – share – bury – username – time submitted
You may still prefer Netscape, but call that Propeller around here now

@sujan: thank you very much!

By: Sujan Patel

Sujan Patel — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:21:36 +0000

Great outline of digg’s new features

By: AlfredKo

AlfredKo — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:04:54 +0000

where can i see the ‘share a story’ function in digg?
I still prefer Netscape for now.

By: brian

brian — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:59:57 +0000

@dan and jennifer: Yes, I hope Digg will go in the right direction with this.

Propeller seems to be doing well so far – top stories are still holding at a good number of votes, which shows a certain confidence level.

As far as Yahoo’s Mash site – expect a post of that soon…

By: Dan and Jennifer

Dan and Jennifer — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:48:52 +0000

This is definitely a move in the right direction for Digg! I also think that the new Propeller.com sight is better than I expected. If you combine the new Digg with Propeller, their baby would be the perfect social media site.

Of course, I haven’t gotten intimate with Yahoo’s new Mash site yet…

By: brian

brian — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:33:18 +0000

@db: I know what you mean. These new features will make Digg interesting, for better or worse.

By: David Bradley Blog Tips

David Bradley Blog Tips — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:08:25 +0000

I removed the Digg plugin from Google Desktop cos I got sooooo bored with all the dire headlines that were appearing, but this kind of move forward could bring me back into the fold, at least for the SN aspects…

By: brian

brian — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:30:41 +0000

@wayne: time will tell on this one. Seems like the kinds of changes that people will either love or hate.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:27:08 +0000

Hi Brian, looks like we’re both diggn’ Digg. For me, once more after a long period of dislike.

Personally, the new Social Networking stuff (here I’m thinking about the Shouts and Shares) will be the real killer features…

By: brian

brian — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:55 +0000

@Tad: good points. However, I take issue with a few things that you have said:

1 – StumbleUpon is great, no question. I just don’t consider it a social news site. It is more like social bookmarking, and my critique was about social news sites.

2 – The front page isn’t the only spot on Digg that receives attention and traffic. The upcoming and different topic pages also receive considerable attention.

3 – There’s just so much Apple, game console, and Linux stuff I can take, too
Digg has branched out a bit. Consider that among the top 5 most popular news stories right now:

Sony Confirms SIXAXIS Rumble at TGS Keynote
Secretary of State Rice tells nuke watchdog to butt out of Iran diplomacy
Chief of the U.S. Copyright Office Doesn’t Own a Computer
Philanthropist Has Given Away an Estimated $4 Billion
Mac OS X Version of OpenOffice Slated for Next September

There is other stuff in the mix. I’m hoping that the changes that Digg has launched will level the playing field somewhat.

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:41:59 +0000

Well, those minor tweaks do not solve the biggest problem of Digg (and Propeller) or any other linear social news site. With the “front page only receives attention and traffic”-policy it pushes the lowest common denominator and everything that’s inbetween gets ignored. I’m sick and tired of the whole Apple, game console and Linux stuff. Thus I prefer StumbleUpon and social browsing.