what do you get if you cross delicious with slashdot?
All the news that everyone on the internet is interested in! Needless to say lots of stories about macs, xp, xbox etc. although yesterday I saw a story about how nikon was discontinuing film cameras, and then I saw it on the register today, seems that digg broke that story.
So digg is a kind of community ‘news’ tool, where people post stories, and other people in the community ‘digg’ (digg being a vote of confidence of sorts) stories. The more diggs the more likely the story will show up on the front page.
I wonder with all the ‘popularity’ driven news we’re going to reproduce the worthless TV news with all the sensationalist claptrap, “after the break, what you don’t know could kill you”.
I am joking a little there, as it seems the news on digg does seem to contain a lot of interesting stuff, enough to distract me for hours.
There is a far more elequant disection and comparison of digg vs slasdot on kottke.org
Update:
a wonderful example of the sensationalism that Digg does encourage on “read/writeWeb
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