The Rise of Digg.com · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday November 17, 2005 @05:53AM from the you-know-you're-on-top-when-they-wanna-bury-you dept.

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.

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Let's Look at the Comments... by TooMuchEspressoGuy · 2005-11-17 06:04 · Score: 5, Informative

On the Slashdot front page, at the time of this posting, the most recent five articles have 17, 124, 101, 178, and 232 comments.
On the Digg front page, the most recent five have 1, 6, 5, 15, and 13 comments.
Yep, Slashdot is REALLY in danger.

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