Digged Rigged?
Digg. What was once my favorite news site, has begun to work under a new light. The “social” in Digg is slowly started to fade and turn into just another news site (ie Slashdot). Even though stories are submitted by the users, only certain users get “dugg.”
Only a small amount of users submit content to Digg, because they know they don’t have a chance in hell the world of their stories becoming popular. Time and time again I see people submit stories to Digg, but the duplicates (submitted by the popular users) get to the front page. You might think I’m bitter about not having my submitted stories dugg (and I am), but I’ve given up on submitting stories to Digg.
Diggnation, a podcast about Digg, has as also seemed to have lost it’s luster. Episodes are shorter and the chemistry of the show has changed. It’s too bad because it was one of the first podcasts I had listened too.
I thought about ways to remedy the problem with Digg, but I think it’s become too popular to change anything without community backlash. What I have decided to do is look for a Digg-like competitor that hasn’t fallen where Digg has. Any ideas? Leave them in the comments.
