slate.com — I wrote this piece for Slate.com to determine whether the massive traffic Digg sent to Slate this week was a fluke: Somebody dugg a two-year-old Slate piece, putting it in our daily top five. I conclude that sites like Slate with deep archives should use Digg-like voting features to steer readers to oldies but goodies in the editorial vaults.
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Closed AccountJun 30, 2006
@rhsjr7so what exactly do you like about this s**tty story that you would attack someone expressing their own opinion on it?
exoendoJun 30, 2006
He'll get to explore angles he hadn't considered.
wolfboyJun 30, 2006
The Digg fanboys clicked not to digg Slate but to bury Slate... Just as so many in the so-called MSM don't understand or know about sites like Digg (I know a reporter who last week had to do a story about Craigslist coming to his town -- and he had never heard of Craigslist before), many of Digg's most ardent groupies don't get that most media consumers won't learn about Digg until they see stories about it in from places like Slate.The fanboys also fail to grasp that without the MSM, Digg would have far fewer stories to pick from. Digg has tons of stories from The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, local TV stations, Slate and the like. Each complements the other's business.
scout29cJul 6, 2006
Came and joined Digg because of what I read at Shafer’s post on Slate. I was aware of Digg, (What kind of net nerd would I be if I hadn’t a least visited Digg before?), but my interest was more in politics and news. Used to go to the library regularly to read articles from publications I didn’t have subscriptions to, but not any more. Since the rise of the internet world, I have read some of the best stuff I have ever read. Is this a great country, or what?I check all the most popular entries at places like Yahoo, NYTimes, and idiocies such as Technorati. Now, I will be doing the same at Digg. Could a news/information junky do otherwise? Voting on something will be a new experience. I also like to comment every now and then, as thusly I post.