news.cnet.com— Digg has always featured local news stories submitted by its users, but they haven’t been organized around location. That may change in 2009.
Aug 29, 2008View in Crawl 4
I actually submitted this idea to Digg a couple of months ago (July 1st to be exact). Should be cool if they implement it:"1.) Localities. The ability to submit stories and give them a location, so that people can search for stories or articles pertaining to their region, or see the most dugg articles in someone's area. Maybe have the option in your profile to enter your zip code so it can search for posts with the same or similar zip and when submitting a story you enter the zip code of the area that the article takes place in (optional of course). You could have a separate section next to Upcoming for it. I think it'd be sweet."
Speaking of local news.... take a look at this Digg user: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/users/kactuscrow">http://digg.com/users/kactuscrow</a>He has submitted 13,184 stories and 0% are popular. He trolls the Internet for local news and submits random s**t from around the globe into categories like "World News". I'm fine with Digg setting up a special sub-section for local news that I can unsubscribe from. But, this guy is pissing in the pool and flooding Digg with local news that has no relevance to 99.9996% of us. Let's stop this while we still can. Mark this guy's stories as "SPAM" and bury him.
"Digg as a respected news site?"Digg is the best thing to ever happen to bloggers, citizen journalists and small newspapers.Why Digg doesn't suck.It gives the editorial power to the people "the people formerly known as the audience" (Jay Rosen), all stories are searchable even buried ones. We can digg (vote) what we want, whenever we want and we aren't restriction by expired discussions, or stories. Do understand that there are legions of us (millions of active reader-base), every Digger has admin status. There is raw power in this site for valuable digg impressions. What a brilliant formula, let the readers decide. Now, people are able to solve all sorts of massive problems by freely discovering and sharing information. "Maybe.. but only when summiters accurately describe the article and stop posting 4chan crap."We support the premise newly submitted stories, should earn frontpage status by election only from the majority of the communities diggs (input/votes). Here we called it Diggs vs. Buries (a down vote) rating system , which promotes a level commenting field and equal valued voice for new digg participants. When digging stories and encounter a revealed inaccuracy, we don't pretend to have empathy for obvious lameness, when a rational argument could be made about the article's accuracy. We don't hesitate to click bury. If it isn't 'news-worthy' or interesting content, we shouldn't digg it. Why promote junk? We need more active users bring enough user buries to get spam out of the Digg system.It does not matter where the news originates from. However, if any URL or keywords within a Digg submission is consistently flagged as spam/propaganda by the Digg community (eg. McCain, iPhone, Fox News Channel), that URL, keywords may be bitterly hated (eg. form a bad reputation on diggers consciousness) on future submissions. Lastly, beware local news Editors Digg readers aren't very forgiving of shoddy journalism. Digg is not your enemy, but a legion to associate with.
theysayjumpAug 29, 2008
I actually submitted this idea to Digg a couple of months ago (July 1st to be exact). Should be cool if they implement it:"1.) Localities. The ability to submit stories and give them a location, so that people can search for stories or articles pertaining to their region, or see the most dugg articles in someone's area. Maybe have the option in your profile to enter your zip code so it can search for posts with the same or similar zip and when submitting a story you enter the zip code of the area that the article takes place in (optional of course). You could have a separate section next to Upcoming for it. I think it'd be sweet."
Closed AccountAug 30, 2008
Why would it matter if someone knew what area you lived in?
tanzeAug 30, 2008
i like that idea
giolebAug 30, 2008
Hi Keviiiin!
binaryloopAug 30, 2008
Speaking of local news.... take a look at this Digg user: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/users/kactuscrow">http://digg.com/users/kactuscrow</a>He has submitted 13,184 stories and 0% are popular. He trolls the Internet for local news and submits random s**t from around the globe into categories like "World News". I'm fine with Digg setting up a special sub-section for local news that I can unsubscribe from. But, this guy is pissing in the pool and flooding Digg with local news that has no relevance to 99.9996% of us. Let's stop this while we still can. Mark this guy's stories as "SPAM" and bury him.
unitedstatiansAug 30, 2008
"Digg as a respected news site?"Digg is the best thing to ever happen to bloggers, citizen journalists and small newspapers.Why Digg doesn't suck.It gives the editorial power to the people "the people formerly known as the audience" (Jay Rosen), all stories are searchable even buried ones. We can digg (vote) what we want, whenever we want and we aren't restriction by expired discussions, or stories. Do understand that there are legions of us (millions of active reader-base), every Digger has admin status. There is raw power in this site for valuable digg impressions. What a brilliant formula, let the readers decide. Now, people are able to solve all sorts of massive problems by freely discovering and sharing information. "Maybe.. but only when summiters accurately describe the article and stop posting 4chan crap."We support the premise newly submitted stories, should earn frontpage status by election only from the majority of the communities diggs (input/votes). Here we called it Diggs vs. Buries (a down vote) rating system , which promotes a level commenting field and equal valued voice for new digg participants. When digging stories and encounter a revealed inaccuracy, we don't pretend to have empathy for obvious lameness, when a rational argument could be made about the article's accuracy. We don't hesitate to click bury. If it isn't 'news-worthy' or interesting content, we shouldn't digg it. Why promote junk? We need more active users bring enough user buries to get spam out of the Digg system.It does not matter where the news originates from. However, if any URL or keywords within a Digg submission is consistently flagged as spam/propaganda by the Digg community (eg. McCain, iPhone, Fox News Channel), that URL, keywords may be bitterly hated (eg. form a bad reputation on diggers consciousness) on future submissions. Lastly, beware local news Editors Digg readers aren't very forgiving of shoddy journalism. Digg is not your enemy, but a legion to associate with.
hello888Aug 30, 2008
International versions of Digg would be cool. Especially a german one.