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      The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg

      Posted by Jeff from Readwriteweb

      Fueled partly by a need to counter false accusations from disgruntled community members who claim that Digg is rigged (i.e. that a core group of users decide what content is promoted), partly by the desire to encourage non-core members to participate more passionately, and partly by a need to affect a level of diversity and equality that would appear promising to potential acquirers, Digg has changed its algorithm again and again.

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    • Yahoo Plans to Let Users Help Mold New Feature

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      The Buzz service borrows heavily from other so-called social news aggregators, like Digg and Reddit, as it asks users to “vote” on items they like. Items with the most votes, or buzz, will earn prominent placement. But the Buzz service is different in some important ways. Rather than turn Buzz into a Web destination for users, Yahoo plans to include the content that surfaces through Buzz on its front page.

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    • Slashdot Founder Questions Crowds Wisdom

      Posted by Jeff from Bits.blogs.nytimes

      “I try not to paint Digg as my arch-nemesis. The Digg method and Digg community are a wider audience than Slashdot,” he said. “But with sites like Digg, it’s the wisdom of the crowds or the tyranny of the mob. You never know what you’re going to get.”

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    • Digg users show who's the boss in Web 2.0 world

      Posted by Jeff from Macworld

      Digg founder Kevin Rose is smart enough to realize this (and, from a more practical standpoint, smart enough to realize that the cat was not just out of the bag but well on its way to Mexico). His ultimate “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em— decision to post the key on the Digg blog and vow to “go down fighting” was really the only thing he could do if he hoped to retain any sort of credibility.

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    • I Bought Votes on Digg

      Posted by Jeff from Wired

      Four and a half hours later, I was the only person who had dugg my story. That's when I hired a Digg-gaming service called User/Submitter, or U/S. This enterprise, run by one or more zealously anonymous individuals, advertises that it can help "submitters" get Digg stories noticed by paying "users" to digg them.

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    • Slashdot Firehose (or Digg vs Slashdot.org round 2) --Stewtopia

      Posted by Jeff

      I got invited to Slashdot Firehose tonight as well. The UI is clunky and confusing and is very Digg-like, complete with thumbs up and thumbs down. I agree with Stew...Alexa data indicates Slashdot still in decline. Personally, I find myself drawn back to /. content because of the quality editorial and turned off by Digg. That's my 2 cents.

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    I Bought Votes on Digg

    From TechCrunch Digg Should Sue Wired:

    Digg can't treat Wired like any other user that's engaged in fraud. Wired is the press, and the press has tremendous power. Wired is putting Digg in an impossible situation, and they should be called on it. Reporting news is one thing (although they should note the conflict of interest there as well), but actively creating negative news about a competitor and then using the massive reach of Wired to promote that 'news' is way over the line.

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    4:47 pm 3/01/07
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