Comments on: digg vs. ‘old’ media http://www.redbeard.org.uk/2007/07/02/digg-vs-old-media/ User Experience And Strategy Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:57:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ben Sauer’s Blog » Blog Archive » My workshop in March: Geek habits for non-geeks http://www.redbeard.org.uk/2007/07/02/digg-vs-old-media/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Ben Sauer’s Blog » Blog Archive » My workshop in March: Geek habits for non-geeks Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:44:21 +0000 http://www.redbeard.org.uk/2007/07/02/digg-vs-old-media/#comment-13 [...] I don’t want to add to the noise that’s already out there: you’ll see from my digg article that it took me a while to process the results and write the article. I studied literary criticism [...] [...] I don’t want to add to the noise that’s already out there: you’ll see from my digg article that it took me a while to process the results and write the article. I studied literary criticism [...]

]]> By: georg http://www.redbeard.org.uk/2007/07/02/digg-vs-old-media/comment-page-1/#comment-6 georg Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:37:04 +0000 http://www.redbeard.org.uk/2007/07/02/digg-vs-old-media/#comment-6 While your results are certainly interesting, I find it hard to deduct any hypotheses from them other than what we already know: That digg is concerned with "popular" stories rather than news in the traditional sense. Combined with the fact that digg is a niche site with a rather closely defined profile of its active users (i.e. young technology and internet enthusiasts), it seems to be natural that the selection of popular stories does not necessarily reflect the huge stories in the traditional media. I'm quite unsure if people are looking at digg to get news or rather to be entertained by opinionated stories (or mainstream stories submitted with an opinionated description/title) For example, the general public doesn't care much about DRM, whereas related stories are usually popular on digg. Similarly, there are basically always at least some stories on the front page that appeal only to technology enthusiasts (new open source releases, Apple stuff, video game news, etc...). What I'd personally find more interesting are looking at what kind of stories are submitted and actively buried by the crowd, i.e. for which type of stories the "democratic" system mostly exhibits its deficiencies. While your results are certainly interesting, I find it hard to deduct any hypotheses from them other than what we already know: That digg is concerned with “popular” stories rather than news in the traditional sense. Combined with the fact that digg is a niche site with a rather closely defined profile of its active users (i.e. young technology and internet enthusiasts), it seems to be natural that the selection of popular stories does not necessarily reflect the huge stories in the traditional media. I’m quite unsure if people are looking at digg to get news or rather to be entertained by opinionated stories (or mainstream stories submitted with an opinionated description/title)

For example, the general public doesn’t care much about DRM, whereas related stories are usually popular on digg. Similarly, there are basically always at least some stories on the front page that appeal only to technology enthusiasts (new open source releases, Apple stuff, video game news, etc…).

What I’d personally find more interesting are looking at what kind of stories are submitted and actively buried by the crowd, i.e. for which type of stories the “democratic” system mostly exhibits its deficiencies.

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