Comments on: Affected by Digg Effect

Affected by Digg Effect

Burhanistan — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:35:25 -0800

DailyHub - "Social Content for Business Geeks". A Digg-esque aggregator that purports to be grown up.

By: geoff.

geoff. — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:56:37 -0800

So this is going to be what life is like after Murdoch purchases Dow Jones? Maybe Shafer in Slate is right and the FT should aggressively poach whatever they can, sans editorial staff. I stopped reading editorials in the WSJ when they referred to those who were too poor to pay taxes as "Lucky Duckies".

By: phrontist

phrontist — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:00:54 -0800

Business... geeks... Business... geeks... What?!

By: chlorus

chlorus — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:08:43 -0800

Ok so it's reddit/digg with a different CSS file. Color me unimpressed.

By: RMD

RMD — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:21:03 -0800

Just so you know, the link entitled ... Why It's Important to Love Your Customers doesn't mean what you hope it means.

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:35:32 -0800

Digg seems pretty growed up to me.

By: p3on

p3on — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:44:30 -0800

This is like reddit without anything interesting

By: Bighappyfunhouse

Bighappyfunhouse — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:36:15 -0800

I predict - A ton of Digg related posts on DailyHub (ala Ron Paul)

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:07:04 -0800

I cross-posted this thread there, so maybe some kind of resonance echo effect will happen or something. Or not.

By: Clamwacker

Clamwacker — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:28:57 -0800

Bighappyfunhouse - That was the first thing I saw on there. Out of the 25 links on there at the time, 4 had Digg in the headline.

By: humblepigeon

humblepigeon — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:46:13 -0800

It's entertaining that social link sites like this are defined as the Bright New Hope. In the cold light of day, they're just versions of Reader's Digest, except online. Just as Reader's Digest supposedly provides the best of print journalism, so these link sites try and provide the best of online material (although this is a fallacy—90% of the links are to online versions of material generated for print or TV; it's not like there's nothing but links to blogs). Reddit suffers in particular. Half the links are jokes, half the links are more sombre. This is an almost perfect description of Reader's Digest. All that Reddit lacks is a humorinuniform.reddit.com domain. What's worse is that many links seem to go around and around and around. Dupes are common, maybe spaced out six months apart. The users of the site have short memories, or maybe the sites just have high membership turnovers. The problem for the reader of these sites is the same that affects Reader's Digest—readers walk away thinking that they're educated and enlightened, and have spent their time well, but really they've merely been entertained. The links mostly point to trivia. There's rarely a thorough and complete argument put forward in one of the links, because that's not what the audience is interested in. Linking to a long piece of journalism that requires you to think will get you nowhere. Better to link to a YouTube video, or a cool visual illusion, or somebody ranting about George W Bush...

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:15:04 -0800

FWIW, this thread is currently #1 over there.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:17:37 -0800

It's also completely mistagged, probably as a result of the "separate by commas not spaces" pseudostandard I hate (Blogger does this too, and calls them "labels", pshaw).

By: carefreeliving

carefreeliving — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:44:40 -0800

I kind of like separating things by commas, not spaces. Otherwise, silliny-things-like this or silly_things_like_this or SillyThingsLikeThis happen. But, that's just one guy's opinion.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:56:25 -0800

That's a good point. I just wish there was a single standard. For everything. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to order my different kinds of OCD medicine again.

By: Moistener

Moistener — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:31:42 -0800

Two vectors of "interestingness to humans": 1) What grabs my own attention? 2) What grabs the attention of "everybody else"? At Digg, these two forces are in some sort of sick sex dance.