* Thanks to http://home.actlab.utexas.edu/~lveale/ctest%20dummy.jpg for the above pic
Hemingway's Lounge came across this awesome blog post that needs to be read by people who use DIGG.
For those not-in-the-know, Digg is a community-based popularity site that combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.
If you believe that, I got some swampland in Nevada for you.
News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. Boxing commissions and rankings are more legit than Digg.
Of late, the site has come under major fire with many bloggers finding their accounts cancelled for no reason other than "misuse."
It's been said and reported on Wikipedia that the top 100 Digg users control more than half of Digg's frontpage content, and that a niche group of just twenty individuals submit 25% of the frontpage content.
In the REAL news game, where the big dogs bark, more than one writer can cover topics. That's the way it is. It's called competition. The censorship going on at Digg, quite frankly, is pathetic. Digg users are burying stories that have nothing to do with "spam." To them, they're burying their competition and, as a result, decent bloggers are banned from posting stories.
In any case, read this awesome blog post below that sees Digg's demise as imminent.
The Downfall of Digg is Forthcoming and Here is Why
