http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/09/12/can-digg-be-democratic/ Signposts to journalism's future from Press Gazette Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:09:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/09/12/can-digg-be-democratic/#comment-49770 Press Gazette Blogs - Fleet Street 2.0 » MySpace News: What, no personalisation? Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:57:37 +0000 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/dog/2006/09/12/can-digg-be-democratic/#comment-49770 [...] In spite of the appearance of democratic story-selection, the great weakness of the existing social news recommendation sites is their voting algorithms, which mean the stories appearing on their front pages are dominated by a tiny elite of unrepresentative alpha users. [...] [...] In spite of the appearance of democratic story-selection, the great weakness of the existing social news recommendation sites is their voting algorithms, which mean the stories appearing on their front pages are dominated by a tiny elite of unrepresentative alpha users. [...]

]]> http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/09/12/can-digg-be-democratic/#comment-24430 Joseph Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:20:36 +0000 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/dog/2006/09/12/can-digg-be-democratic/#comment-24430 Does any one know how digg does those google ads so they are just one large one at the top? Jump on to any digg article to see what i mean (cant post links yet) Does any one know how digg does those google ads so they are just one large one at the top?
Jump on to any digg article to see what i mean (cant post links yet)

]]> http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/09/12/can-digg-be-democratic/#comment-21009 Web 2.0 Newspapers » catch up. (Lots of Web2.0Newspapers Updates, Rollouts, Commentary and Goodies) Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:59:47 +0000 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/dog/2006/09/12/can-digg-be-democratic/#comment-21009 [...] Digg's recognition as a democratic way to get your media came under fire recently when allegations arose that the news story and blog post link-sharing site, which ranks links via user ratings and popularity, was losing control to its users, some of whom have allegedly been working together to drive more traffic to their own sites. Wired new had a great post summarizing this, and Information Week's article. Digg has said they are working on new interfaces and code to address the problem. Here are postings from ZDNet and Wired's Monkey Bites that explain more from Digg's Kevin Rose. Fleet Street 2.0 comes right out and asks: "Can Digg be cemocratic?" [...] [...] Digg's recognition as a democratic way to get your media came under fire recently when allegations arose that the news story and blog post link-sharing site, which ranks links via user ratings and popularity, was losing control to its users, some of whom have allegedly been working together to drive more traffic to their own sites. Wired new had a great post summarizing this, and Information Week's article. Digg has said they are working on new interfaces and code to address the problem. Here are postings from ZDNet and Wired's Monkey Bites that explain more from Digg's Kevin Rose. Fleet Street 2.0 comes right out and asks: "Can Digg be cemocratic?" [...]

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