newscientisttech.com — Online news articles can lose their appeal in as little as an hour. That is the message from two statistical physicists who analysed the way people access information on the user-driven news site Digg.com
Apr 24, 2007 View in Crawl 4
geekeeApr 24, 2007
No, on Digg the list is1) iPhone2) OSS (Most notably Linux)3) anti-RIAA
oraboxApr 24, 2007
@ gastrodamus "Digg.com reveals news stories demonstrating hatred for Republicans, Christians, and Windows users never fade"That is funny, I was a Republican, Christian and Windows guy when I joined digg.
ashotApr 25, 2007
This is ridiculous. Digg rate is influenced very heavily by the way digg displays stories. The amount of diggs an article is getting at any point in time is determined by digg_rate_per_view * amount of views. My guess is that 69 minutes is the approximate time it takes an article to percolate through the first page of upcoming stories, and through digg's friend network. This has much more to do with the velocity of incoming stories than the time-sensitive nature of the article. Many articles are not time sensitive at all.
acdcfanbillApr 25, 2007
Submitted: 8 hours 46 min ago, made popular 2 hours 1 minute ago Meh, I was going to comment on this, but I'm not so interested in it anymore.
thefederalistApr 25, 2007
I was going to read this article until I realized that it's been on the front page for over an hour. Eh... I'm sure it wasn't anything important anyway.
w3bsmithApr 25, 2007
Someone forgot to tell us Diggers! Damn it!Submitted: 11 hours 17 min ago, made popular 4 hours 32 minutes ago
Closed AccountApr 25, 2007
oh really.. you mean like this one?<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/politics/Why_scholars_are_calling_for_an_independent_investigation_of_9_11">http://digg.com/politics/Why_scholars_are_calling_for_an_independent_investigation_of_9_11</a>the one that continued to get more and more and more and MORE diggs after it made first page, but was removed from the frontpage within 10 minutesand anyone posting in favor of the story was banned?go ahead and click on some of the names of people posting in clear favor of the content of the articlethey are gonedo you agree with digg censoring political opinion from you?
thucydidesApr 25, 2007
"They found that digging decays in a "stretched exponential" way and the popularity of a story fades after just 69 minutes."69 minutes. Tee hee hee.
topvnleserDec 27, 2008
Topvn.at reveals that certain newspapers can lead to... "Das Infokoma" (80% German words)