Comments on: Digg and the wisdom of crowds http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/07/on-digg/ A blog on entrepreneurship, user experience, and web innovation. Published by Fred Oliveira. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: WeBreakStuff » If you can’t build a community, buy one http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/07/on-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-3090 WeBreakStuff » If you can’t build a community, buy one Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:12:39 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/07/on-digg/#comment-3090 [...] Not that I agree with the way Digg stories are brought to the home-page - every single day there’s around 5 to 10 news stories that make me wonder why the powers that be over there haven’t changed the promotion algorithms. Still, the fact is Digg has critical mass, and its not because of the few top posters you’re trying to buy out. [...] [...] Not that I agree with the way Digg stories are brought to the home-page – every single day there’s around 5 to 10 news stories that make me wonder why the powers that be over there haven’t changed the promotion algorithms. Still, the fact is Digg has critical mass, and its not because of the few top posters you’re trying to buy out. [...]

]]> By: Ben Long http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/07/on-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-2974 Ben Long Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:17:32 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/07/on-digg/#comment-2974 Thanks for the articles. I enjoy reading your insights . IMO, two fundamental aspects have changed in respect to content in the new version of Digg. The first thing I noticed (last week or so) was stories take longer to get to the homepage (unless it is about Digg). I read a story in the queue 4 days ago, and today it is on the homepage. This gives me the 'feeling' that I'm reading old news. Topics now hit the homepage of Digg at rate similar to other news outlets. The other fundamental shift is the number of stories in the queue, and as Fred points out, a change in quality because of what I see as an increase in contributors and readers. The increase in both contributors and readers has a huge impact on how stories are discovered, because even the most insignificant link on the Web is Dugg by someone. This makes it harder to find stories by simply reading the queue in 'cloud view', when the most random tid-bit of information has been Dugg, and it look like content of interest (cloud-view-affordance), but alas it is not. Both of these shifts impact my trust in Digg as a place to find bleeding-edge information. Thanks for the articles. I enjoy reading your insights .

IMO, two fundamental aspects have changed in respect to content in the new version of Digg.

The first thing I noticed (last week or so) was stories take longer to get to the homepage (unless it is about Digg). I read a story in the queue 4 days ago, and today it is on the homepage. This gives me the ‘feeling’ that I’m reading old news. Topics now hit the homepage of Digg at rate similar to other news outlets.

The other fundamental shift is the number of stories in the queue, and as Fred points out, a change in quality because of what I see as an increase in contributors and readers. The increase in both contributors and readers has a huge impact on how stories are discovered, because even the most insignificant link on the Web is Dugg by someone. This makes it harder to find stories by simply reading the queue in ‘cloud view’, when the most random tid-bit of information has been Dugg, and it look like content of interest (cloud-view-affordance), but alas it is not.

Both of these shifts impact my trust in Digg as a place to find bleeding-edge information.

]]> By: Graham http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/07/on-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-2971 Graham Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:28:04 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/07/on-digg/#comment-2971 A solution to quality control/mass irrelevance would be a title relevance function; which over time, narrows down to the scope of that users interests using keywords and selective topics. Only showing a majority of titles similar to ones which that user has already visited. A solution to quality control/mass irrelevance would be a title relevance function; which over time, narrows down to the scope of that users interests using keywords and selective topics. Only showing a majority of titles similar to ones which that user has already visited.

]]> By: Martin http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/07/on-digg/comment-page-1/#comment-2945 Martin Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:38:36 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/07/on-digg/#comment-2945 In my opinion, what you describe is the fact that the collective intelligence of the Digg community does not always represent my own intelligence or interests, although services like Digg try to do so... I'm not sure it will eventually stabilizes. Maybe topics on harry potter represent the collective intelligence of the entire worldwide population and maybe this is the path services as Digg are deemed to follow. In my opinion, what you describe is the fact that the collective intelligence of the Digg community does not always represent my own intelligence or interests, although services like Digg try to do so…

I’m not sure it will eventually stabilizes. Maybe topics on harry potter represent the collective intelligence of the entire worldwide population and maybe this is the path services as Digg are deemed to follow.

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