just reading islayers article about the free/cheap app a day trend, and i though we should have an official Digg My Article Thread.

next time you write an article that you want alot of people to read, submit it to digg then announce it here!

I'm not saying all mactalk members should automatically digg each others story, because that would set off the anti-spam filters of digg. but i seems to me that quite a few people here can write, and most of us have similar interests, so why don't we help each other get deserving stories onto the digg front page.

Good idea

There seems to be some anti-diggers at mactalk (see this thread for example), yet there are also those who link their articles to it and suggest we have digg threads for similar articles.

It is interesting to see both ends of the spectrum here.

As yet, I haven't stumbled across any blatant hypocrisy (e.g. ragging digg and dismissing it as rubbish, then linking to it with the next breath).

But I'm watching

rtc.

PS. For the record. I don't rate digg very highly . But I also agree that if many mactalkers want to digg an article (i.e. they would disagree with me about digg), then the presence of these intentions of theirs makes linking to digg a good idea .

rtc.

i don't rate digg highly either. almost all of the content i see via rss i don't bother clicking on. I mean how many times can you read about how cool the Wii is and how bad the PS3 is before you get bored. but once or twice a day i spot something brilliant.

but thats what digg is. it would be like saying all television is shit because of all the reality tv shows, bad dramas, awful sitcoms etc. But that would be ignoring the Sopranos, Six Feet Under's and Dexters. (yes, i can fit Dexter into any argument!)

TV or Digg are only as good as their audience. Which is why i tried to get as many people as i could to watch Dexter, and its why i think we should support each other on Digg. To take the tv analogy further, most submitted stories on digg are diggbait, designed to provide just enough entertainment to get you to look at their website ads. Kevin Rose (digg founder) says his team spend most of their time trying to catch the diggbaiters and idiot teens digging their friends shit so that the website can improve.

I think its a problem of web 2.0 in general. All the supposed Web 2.0 sites rely on user generated material and user generated rankings, but honestly, when was the last time you went to youtube and saw something worth watching? Ok, compare that number to the amount of times someone pointed you in the direction of a cool youtube clip. Sometimes, its better to be guided by editors.

There is a lot to be said for editorial control. My recent love-fest thread about Disko was based on this. I have read many forums and have joined very few, but the forum i love above all others is this one, because i think the moderators (editors) have created a culture here that is great. They have only done this by editing out comments or users that offended this culture. Compare this site to Whirlpool, where any twelve year old can tell you to "fuck of n00b", and i know where i'd rather post.

For the same reason I love Diggnation far more than digg. Because Kevin and Alex use editorial control to avoid the crap that usually appears on their site, to highlight the interesting stories instead. I mate of mine hates digg, but loves the editorially controlled Boing Boing, yet we both see most of the same stuff because anything on boing boing is usually dugg, and its usually something i'm interested in. Still, i get to show him all the stuff that boing boing didnt cover when i meet up with him.

If enough intelligent people start digging, then the website will change. Either way, its still probably the best way to get people to read your stuff on the net. Sure, 99% is shit, but why don't we make it better?

end rant.

Hey, I find digg full of more & more crap lately - but also support linking to the good stuff in it. It can be one awesome tool of many online, and filling it with good stuff only helps improve it.

Dana

I can't stand the endless nerdy wars going on in the comments of each digg article... really turns me right off the whole thing.

never read the comments on digg, it'll just make you depressed. the recent stories about James Kim were filled with "Who gives a fuck about that..." etc.

but another cool feature of digg is you can block the people that you find repulsive, and you'll never have to see them again. and if enough people block someone, they'll get banned.

hey,

i was suprised how many people at mactalk use piracy to fund terrorist sleeper cells, but i wondered if the same was true for the greater population. so i've reposted the survey over at my blog, please pop over and vote, and could someone please be so kind as to digg the damn thing. i'd digg it myself, but they'll catch my ip address.

cheers.