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So, How’s That Digg Recommendation Engine Been Working For You?
One of the biggest recent announcements from Digg , and one they put much emphasis on, was the recommendation engine ; a system that learns from your digging habits and feeds you stories you might like based on what diggers like you recently found interesting. After using it for quite some time, like most such ideas, I find it utterly useless. I use Digg in the following way: I check out the front page and the upcoming Technology section for interesting stories.… if you are relying on the (potential) swarm of Digg visitors to click on your Adsense ads. Personally, I think the spike in traffic you will get by getting a home-page link on Digg won’t be worth anything at all, unless you are selling something that Digg users want. Now, I don’t know what that something is, but whatever it is, it is going to be a hard sell.
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Netscape Represents the Future of News @ Blogcritics.org
The jury is certainly still out on whether or not the "new" Netscape.com -– revamped into what some would herald as an innovative experiment in social news and others would deride as yet another Digg-clone wannabe –- is a success or not. But it doesn't matter in the long run. I like to think of the Netscape model as a hybrid approach to social news, as it builds upon the "Digg model" of user submitted stories + everyone votes for their favorite stories = a user controlled front page of your "online newspaper." Netscape has a strong social news base (in terms of how they feature and emphasize this form of people power) and also employs Netscape Navigators, human editors who submit their own stories, make some stories "sticky" by featuring them in an admin-controlled area on the front page, and commenting, friending, and generally taking an active social networking-style role on the site that is diametrically opposed to Digg's human-hands-off- way -off style.
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This Blog Is Moving. Update Your RSS. September 29, 2007 I have decided to detach my blog from this site and move it to BrianShaler.com/Blog. This decision is based on the directions I would like to take this site and my blog, and now is the time for them to go their separate ways. [ Read More ] NYC Social Network Meet-Up3monkeys » Observations on Digg’s Quality
One of the reasons I have become somewhat disenchanted with digg is the quality of the content. There have been many theories as to why the quality has dropped. When I pondered this issue and how to analyze it, the first line of attack was to determine who was submitting the majority of articles to digg. Digg allows each and every user to view this information, simply navigate to http://digg.com/topusers and sort by submitted. Below is a screen shot at the time this article was written. If we consider the numbers, this shows that between the top 8 submitters a total of 23,953 stories have been submitted, of which only 2442 stories have reached the front page of digg.
Digg and the So-Called “Wisdom of Mobs” - Mashable!
In a recent post about Digg , I wrote: "it’s obvious to see that Digg users are growing in power. And while this could be a force for good, it also means that an unsupported claim on a blog could quickly be blown out of proportion." Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened to the O'Reilly contributor Steve Mallett, who was accused of stealing Digg's CSS by an anonymous blogspot blogger. This O'Reilly post explains more: Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg's CSS pages. The story was voted up rapidly and made the homepage, acquiring thousands of diggs (thumbs-up) from the Digg community along the way.
& Diggs 8 million social freeloaders | Di
According to Digg CEO Jay Adelson, “The point of Digg is to capture the interests of the Internet masses and use that interest to help organize the huge amounts of information on the Web." Digg’s masses, however, are passive readers of other’s “Diggs,” rather than active contributors to a Digg “collective wisdom.” Digg reportedly attracted 8.5 million visitors in May, but only has 304,000 registered users, submitting, on average, about 2000 stories a day.
digg.com is a System. Systems Need Constant Improvment. There’s no such thing as perfection.
A Complex Governing System Needs Constant Update. An Editorial o
There's been quite a bit of recent discussion about how gaming of Digg 's system shows that " The Wisdom of Crowds " is failing. The problem is that Digg doesn't implement the wisdom of crowds. And, it seems, most of the participants in the discussion don't know the difference. The criteria for when the effect that the book talks about kicks in are fairly simple. They require that every member of a wise crowd is acting without knowing anyone else's actions before they choose. That means that, if Digg were actually based on the WOC principle, you'd never see how many people had dugg an article before you choose to digg it yourself.
Why Digg Isn't "The Wisdom of Crowds"-- The Glass
This past week’s Digg controversy is one in a growing number of incidents that suggest that a small group of users are having an undue influence on the promotion of stories. In response, Digg is changing the way that it handles votes by adding complexity to its ranking algorithm. I think that’s the wrong approach, so here’s another idea: change the actual design of the site…that’s the real problem. The most recent controversy happened on September 5th, when someone named jesusphreak posted Digg the Rigged?