Archive for the ‘social+media’ Category

The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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 ...

Mainstream Media Finally Catching On To How News Propagates

Friday, March 28th, 2008

According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well -- sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come ...

Yahoo Plans to Let Users Help Mold New Feature

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

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 ...

Slashdot Founder Questions Crowds Wisdom

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

“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.”Read the full ...