content.stamen.com — As a follow-up to the first visualizations we made of user activity on Digg, we've analyzed an entire day's worth of digging activity in greater detail. The visualizations illustrate some general patterns, and one controversial story (claiming that the BBC reported the collapse of WTC Building 7 before it happened) immediately becomes visible.
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guardFeb 28, 2007
Why is he getting dugg down for that speculation?If you all don't remember, there were the spammers going around in every thread saying that 9/11 was a conspiracy a month or 2 ago (giving myspace links), this could have been the same people and encouragement to create a lot of accounts and digg the story up to the front page.
Closed AccountFeb 28, 2007
@DisposableRob, "the people responsible for most (if not all) the tools available in Digg Labs, not some bored geek"Same difference.
kataliebMar 1, 2007
Have you considered that perhaps the call for people to join Digg happened and spread because the original WTC 7 story was buried without good reason? I think this is the reason for this. There are now plenty of forums and blogs who report that Digg has a) censored or b) biasedly buried the original story, and this has caused a rather massive flock of new people here.Before the Burial the hype was nowhere near the level its at now. The old truth at work, try to prevent something and youll just make it all the more interesting.
13b1303Mar 1, 2007
Digg is a true democracy, it is proven every time real facts get buried and popular trends get dugg up.
ricoltMar 1, 2007
I'm new to digg, AKA a little Blue Dot, and I'm assuming I wouldn't have happened upon this story if it wasn't in the top 10 when I logged on (I just signed up today). I'm a bit confused though... while I agree with the community consensus that there shouldn't be concentrated collaboration to digg a story up, this very study, and the story it's spawned, is keeping the BBC story alive. I just read it and I'm sure I wouldn't have been aware of it otherwise, unless it was in my normal news sources. So has this in a sense legitamized it now? Are people making a concentrated effort to digg a story down because they feel like it was unfairly dugg up, regardless of the story's content? Does the pack mentality go both ways here or did that many people generally think it was an unworthy story to digg it down and cause "conspiray censorship theories" yet attracting more people to it?
lasenoritaMar 1, 2007
If you look at it, that thin blue line didn't really make a difference.The BBC story was posted at 8:15 pm on 2/26, reached the front page at 9:42 pm, and was promptly buried at only 257 diggs and 82 comments. [ <a class="user" href="http://duggtrends.com/PlotGraph.aspx?id=0dfbf64a-878c-4783-8d4c-fb6bc3e1479f">http://duggtrends.com/PlotGraph.aspx?id=0dfbf64a-878c-4783-8d4c-fb6bc3e1479f</a> ]The majority of the 1900+ diggs and 1100+ comments came after the story was marked as lame by veteran digg users.Anyways, kudos for presenting the data well. What would be interesting to see is a similar graph analysing buries. As shown in this article, gaming goes both ways: <a class="user" href="http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/the-bury-brigade-exists-and-heres-my-proof.html">http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/the-bury-brigade-exists-and-heres-my-proof.html</a>
Closed AccountMar 2, 2007
Donald2007: Well Played!
Closed AccountMar 13, 2007
Digg sucks. Digg doesn't want to show who buries articles because then they would have to account for the massive amount of nobodies that are not burring anything. Digg my ass, i think of this site as a joke nothing more. If i want to find the latest ipod color or disk size, I know where to go.The 2008 presidential category really fits in well under the category of world & business. That is what politics is about, global business. Presidential candidates have to have business funding their campaign in order to get enough money to fix an election. Wow America is so great, thank god digg came a long and fixed everything.
marthabrowMay 3, 2007
Good. This is too common nowadays.