Friday, December 9, 2005
The Future of News According to Digg
Everything seems to have been said about
Google News
and other automated news tools. But what of mass human-powered news selection? Is the wisdom of the masses dead just
because
Wikipedia
got some bad press lately? I don't think so. It might
prove its real power on other sites shortly.
Take the young but popular
tech-news site
Digg.com as an
example. It's somehow similar to
Slashdot.org but has a different
philosophy: "Digg is a technology news website that employs
non-hierarchical editorial control. With Digg, users submit stories for
review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on
the homepage, the users do." It is gaining popularity rapidly.
Business Week Online recently
featured
its founders.
An interesting aspect is that Digg.com is considering
expanding its range of
topics, which has caused quite a bit of discussion among its users. Perhaps
this system indeed could work with breaking news better than anything we
know yet. Thousands of users who push a story to the front page might
scoop all the wires and automated systems that take time to crawl the Web.
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