I started going to http://www.digg.com a couple months ago, and I can officially say, I am addicted to it. I used to be a front page lurker, but I registered an account today, and am now an official digger.
Explanation for those who don't know what digg is: An aggregation of technology related links submitted by users. The catch here is that there is no editorial staff review what makes it to the front page. Registered users 'digg' links they see as worthy of being lauded.
In theory, you'd think a lot of *** bandits would manage to spam the site and ruin all the fun, but the community is very strong in not letting ******s have their links make it to the front page and/or popularized. Only the "strongest links survive". The site is very darwinistic and democratic. It's extremely interesting. One of the only downsides I see to the site are people making somewhat exagerrated and false statements in topic titles to lure in diggs.
Right now, it is only technology related links, so if you're not into that scene, you won't be too interested in this, yet. There's no question that this type of idea has serious business scalability, however, as it is incredibly easy to see it being built out into other fields such as politics (in the works apparently), world news, U.S. news, healthcare, sports, porn, and whatever else you can think of.
I think this concept of democractic link postings is absolutely f'n brilliant. In addition, I think sites like Fark and slashdot could potentially be in trouble with this. We'll see.
Explanation for those who don't know what digg is: An aggregation of technology related links submitted by users. The catch here is that there is no editorial staff review what makes it to the front page. Registered users 'digg' links they see as worthy of being lauded.
In theory, you'd think a lot of *** bandits would manage to spam the site and ruin all the fun, but the community is very strong in not letting ******s have their links make it to the front page and/or popularized. Only the "strongest links survive". The site is very darwinistic and democratic. It's extremely interesting. One of the only downsides I see to the site are people making somewhat exagerrated and false statements in topic titles to lure in diggs.
Right now, it is only technology related links, so if you're not into that scene, you won't be too interested in this, yet. There's no question that this type of idea has serious business scalability, however, as it is incredibly easy to see it being built out into other fields such as politics (in the works apparently), world news, U.S. news, healthcare, sports, porn, and whatever else you can think of.
I think this concept of democractic link postings is absolutely f'n brilliant. In addition, I think sites like Fark and slashdot could potentially be in trouble with this. We'll see.