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The Rise of Digg.com

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. My comparison by DeadSea · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I have been reading slashdot for years and digg for months. I don't ever see one replacing the other. Some people will like one, some will like the other, but many will like both. Here is my comparison:

    Editorial:
    Slashdot: Targeted by very technical editors, I generally want to hear about 40% of the stories.
    Digg: Targeted by users, I generally want to hear about 5% of the stories.

    Comments:
    Slashdot: Best comment system I've seen with a large number of commenters (threshold 4 for me)
    Digg: Comments are worthless.

    Timeliness:
    Slashdot: Stories are often days old (and duplicates abound).
    Digg: Generally havn't seen it before.

    RSS:
    Slashdot: As a subscriber, I get a full customized rss feed with some unexpected plums (see my latest journal entry)
    Digg: The RSS feed doesn't contain the link to the story, forcing you to go to their useless comments page.

  2. Re:A Critical Difference by mcho · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I disagree with the comment that traffic has real value.

    As a web site owner, traffic from /. doesn't necessarily translate into new customers, increase ad revenue, etc. And, ironically, this has been discussed on digg.com.

    (Of course this comment won't see the light of day because if you don't post early, you're comments aren't moderated any higher to 'Nothing to See Here, Move On'.)

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  3. Re:Naval Gazing? by Flaming+Babies · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I've been to Digg, and their stories are much more current than Slashdot's (seemingly because of the way stories are posted)
    I, myself, have not been to Digg...
    Just curious if you saw the http://diggvsdot.com/ link in the story?
    I've heard many times here that Digg comes out with stories faster...this seems to disagree.
    Is this bad data?
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