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Web 2.0 Application Listings
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| Digg is a user-driven technology news site. This is simply a fancy way of saying that all the articles and features featured on the site are contributed and vetted by the users themselves. |
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The media often dictates what the consumer should go for; the consumer seldom gets to exercise his or her choice. Likewise, many websites offer a lot of content, but no customisation to speak of. Digg.com is a refreshing change — the site depends exclusively on its users to make it useful. What could be more egalitarian?
What does Digg.com offer? Digg is about social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. Users can submit stories for review, but if you think there’s a team of editors that decides what stories go on the homepage, you are hopelessly wrong.
Digg allows users to post links to various technology-related articles. If many people read a particular story or article, that story or article gets pushed on to the Digg homepage. It’s a very simple and democratic way of accessing relevant information.
In this age of information overload, when media is bursting with huge amounts of information, Digg is a good way to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The basic concept should be clear by now. But how does one go about ‘Digging’ for stories? It’s easy—after you finish the simple registration process, just head to the ‘Digg for stories’ section. This is where you’ll find scores of stories submitted by contributors from across the world.
If you like something you’ve read, you could email it to a friend, comment on it, post it to your blog or just ‘Digg’ (vote for) it and help that story get to the Digg.com homepage. The more Diggs a story gets, the more chance it has of being displayed on the homepage.
The ‘Digg for stories’ section has plenty of information and news that is not easily available, even if you are an adept search hound. Thanks to the contributors at Digg, the links are compiled for you, and all you have to do is visit the homepage and click on links to stories that interest you.
If you wish to contribute an article or a story, just click on ‘submit a story’ and enter the appropriate URL. You can fill in a title, a description, and a category for the story. If you encounter a duplicate of the story you are contributing, it would be wiser to Digg the original story rather than add to the clutter.
Digg also allows you to post individual stories to your blog. So, if you want to blog a story that appears on Digg, simply click on ‘blog story’ and you’re done. Digg currently supports single-click blog posting to Typepad, Blogger, LiveJournal, Moveable Type, and Wordpress.
Under your user profile, you can add/remove friends — and once that’s done, you will find it easy to track all your friends’ digs, stories and comments. You can also group multiple friends’ RSS feeds together.
If you have a problem with a story, you can trash it. Next to each story is a little drop-down menu that allows you to complain if you find it unsuitable. For instance, the link could be dead, or perhaps the news article could be irrelevant or unsubstantiated. In allowing you to trash or report a particular story, the creators of Digg have given the users the right to moderate.
You can also keep a watchful eye on all the stories going online through Digg. Head to the section “Digg Spy” and you will find three tabs with the following titles:
Spy on all stories
Here, you can see the list of every story on Digg and the status of the story – whether it’s in queue to get to the home page or is it on the homepage and other details such as the author of the story and the like.
Spy on queued stories
Under this tab, you can find out details about every story that’s in the Digg queue and has been lined up to hit the homepage.
Spy on front page stories
If you want to read Digg’s best stories, then head here. This is where the most “dugg” stories are listed.
Details such as comments, author of the story, and the placement of the story in Digg (homepage/in queue) are all displayed under the Digg Spy section
To sum up, Digg.com is a great site where visitors can put up technology news for others to view and comment on. The concept is very simple, and so is the website. The interface is intuitive, and a little clutter on the page doesn’t detract too much from its utility. There aren’t too many options, but whatever is provided is fully functional. The ability to post stories easily to your blog is another highlight.
Once you start ‘Digging’, you can get hooked. Before you know it, you would not only be scrounging for stories but also be actively involved in submitting large chunks of stories. At least, we did! Perhaps the only drawback is the slightly cluttered interface, but the site’s functionality makes up for it though.
So, don’t wait anymore — start Digging!
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