The Rise of Digg.com

An anonymous reader writes "Wired has a story about Digg, a community bookmarking site that creates its own version of the Slashdot effect. It's a provocatively titled piece - 'Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot' - but goes on to consider the obvious similarities between the two and the differences. Digg is more chaotic, immediate and user driven, whereas Slashdot features more in-depth and technical discussions." Well, I hate navel-gazing news but I think the aggregation of blogs is a critical step in the future of on-line content, and Digg is doing good work here. The interesting thing will happen when their population grows a bit more. Scalability is hard... but I imagine the millions of dollars of VC funding will really help.

Comments

Already read this?

[Kelson]

Every other story I've read on /. over the past few weeks has had at least one comment saying, "Hey, get your act together, this was on Digg 3 days ago!"

I wonder how long it'll take for someone to post one here?

Re:Already read this?

[Arandir]

Everything was on Digg three days ago. But it will take you three more days to find it.

Digg?

[BushCheney08]

Dugg

nothing to see here

[ChrisCampbell47]

Please go away. You are finding Digg very very boring, you want to stay with Slashdot. Nothing to see at all. Mmmmkay?

Digg Mentioned on Slashdot...

[senocular]

Slashdot x Digg = The DigDot Effect
...
*Internet explodes*

Re:My comparison

[P3NIS_CLEAVER]

Slashdot: Stories are often days old (and duplicates abound).

They are not duplicates. They are a Beowulf Cluster of Stories.

Naval gazing

[mblase]

Well, I hate naval gazing news

Yeah, staring at Naval vessels gets kind of boring unless you're really into that kind of thing.

Gazing at navels, on the other hand, I could do for hours....

So Who's Goin' Down First?

[dcw3]

Ok, so /. links a story to them, and they link one back. The question is, who's servers are gonna melt down first?

Late again

[jcorno]

Digg.com had this article posted six hours ago.

Dupes

[Frankie70]

Slashdot: Targeted by very technical editors, I generally want to hear about 40% of the stories.


I want to hear about 20% of the stories, twice each.

Re:Design

[jlp2097]

Digg's story comments are never, ever interesting or informative.

But that implies.... Ah, never mind :-)

Re:Naval Gazing?

[Kelson]

Who on /. hasn't spent hours staring at the C, contemplating its mysteries and trying to fathom its depths?

wow

[Clover_Kicker]

> Digg is more chaotic, immediate and user driven, whereas
> Slashdot features more in-depth and technical discussions.

*shudders*

Digg can't really be that bad?

I bet you didn't use the magic words:

[winkydink]

"Web 2.0" and "AJAX"

Instant VC hard-on

In-depth and technical discussions?

[chris_eineke]

whereas Slashdot features more in-depth and technical discussions

Right next to the "Frist Prost!" and GNAA posts, Natalie Portman and hot grits jokes, Soviet Russia/Korea/Overlord memes, pop culture references, polls with "CowboyNeal" options, general trolls*, Nigerian spam rip-offs, and bad puns? Unpossible!*

*I'm aware of the irony. Don't mod me troll... please?

Re:Naval Gazing?

[lowrydr310]

Slashdot turned me into a bitch. Seriously...

Before I started reading Slashdot I was aware of techy stuff through friends of mine. Now that I'm a regular reader I feel compelled to complain about everything, especially stories from the YRO section (which are usually things that wouldn't otherwise bother me, but so many people whine and complain and it makes me do the same).

Look at me now - I'm bitching about becoming a bitch.

Re:Naval Gazing?

[maelstrom]

Big deal.