In Digg Nation (Extended Interview) - The Diigo Meta page

• 14 Jul 07
  

  tony curzon price

  digg news

  • Like many a media outfit, we added Digg and other social bookmarkers to our site and obsess over which stories become popular. The results are often disheartening. Juvenilia can dominate; this is reinforced by DiggNation, weekly videocasts in which Rose and a friend slam beers and discuss what's "hot." And mob rule has downsides, as Rose discovered in May after Digg took down items disclosing how to end-run HD-DVD antipiracy codes and Diggers revolted. Forced to choose between a particularly petulant clique of his users and potentially company-killing litigation, Rose chose the former, saying, "If we lose, what the hell, at least we died trying."

  • MJ: So is the crowd always wise?

     

    KR: The crowd always produces interesting results. I mean, it depends what section you are in. If you look in the Linux section, the crowd is really amazing. If you dive into celebrity gossip, you might be like, this is just garbage. One of the most important things for us was just making sure users can customize their experience. If they don't like offbeat news, then they can just remove it altogether.

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