A Review of Digg: Model for Social Bookmarking? - Using Digg
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If you have never used a book marking site (for one reason or the other), Digg is very usable and does not go out of its way to make "tagging" look like rocket science. You simply go to www.digg.com, and if you feel like contributing to the community you have to register. Registration is easy; the most personal information you are "compelled" to divulge is your email address -- you can fib on everything else.
You have the option of adding buttons to your browser (but they make it less compulsory than del.icio.us). To add a story you simply add the URL, a comment and a descriptive header. When you add your story it goes to the digg/all/upcoming page, where if it gets enough "diggs" from other users it travels to the front page, and gets viewed by all visitors who visit the home page. If a story does not make it to the home page, it is not likely to get a lot of notice (think Google page two, three, four, five...you get the picture)
You can add videos, podcasts, and collaborate on other user's editing efforts by digging other users' articles (more on this collaborative feature later). You can subscribe to other users' submitted articles either via email or RSS (this feature is available when you are a member of a "friends" list).
Apart from adding URLs for voting, you can also "digg" stories you like. You can recommend that they get "buried;" you can also claim the story is "lame," and you can add comments (you are actually expected to be as honest as possible with your comments).
Currently Digg is divided into different categories which are further divided into subcategories. The categories include Technology, Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment, and Gaming. There's also a handy Sports category which seems to be favored by the web site's algorithm, since even with a relatively low number of diggs, NBA news and NFL news make it to the home page (which makes me think any soccer fans out there should start "digging" their favorite news). The most "dugg" category is the Technology category, which makes Digg seem like a technology site (which it isn't).
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