Is Digg becoming irrelevant?
Digg. Com is continuing to expand. It's sole source of submissions from its community is its greatest asset and liability.At times I've received breaking news before any other media site thanks to Digg, but other times its top stories compromise mostly of the same kind of internet memes or things non-news (real news) related.
As long as Digg's members continue to participate and submit good content, the site's life will still thrive.
I use digg and I don't think it's becoming irrelevant Having said that I have noticed much less activity than there was say this time last year I think two factors directly influenced this The first is the removal of the shout system which you could understand because of the potential misuse by spammers The second is the conversion of a large majority of the outbound links to no follow.
I've never used Digg to be honest. But just to make a little comment. Twitter and Facebook are the new "It" sites in every aspect, knocking many other sites out of the water.
Everyone has a Facebook account, and almost everyone has a twitter account. It just makes more sense to people to use what's popular. =).
Digg had a novel solution to the social discovery issue: let users vote on the articles they like most. It’s an effective model however it is most effective at doing one thing: determining what content its community likes most. Want to know what the general web likes or what various segments of the internet likes?
You won’t be able to find that out with Digg. What’s the difference between a digital media company which creates editorial content and a platform which lets the users determine what content to serve up? Well nothing actually if you consider Alley Insider’s latest valuations of Gawker Media and Digg accurate.
They currently value both companies at $190 million. Digg has a much easier business model though as they let the community generate all the content. The result is that numerous startups have been created around community moderated content, all attempting to go after various verticals.
The aggregator model is excellent if you are a fan of the people aggregating the content. Unfortunately though Digg doesn’t really solve the greater relevance problem facing the social web, although they were previously hyped as though they would solve that problem. It still takes way too much work to sift through all the user generated content on the web.
While the social streams are becoming public, developers are still struggling to generate effective algorithms which cut out the noise. Often times we turn to editors to find the most effective content on the web. That’s what keeps blogs alive, right?
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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