Hi everyone. I will be presenting on digg.com on Monday the fifteenth. Digg.com is a website where people share news they discover from the internet through links and stories. After articles are submitted they go to the "digg area" where they are voted on by diggers, or members of the site. This voting process is called digging and burying. News articles which receive numerous positive votes are then added to the site. Only the most dugg articles appear on the front page. The articles which do not generate enough positive votes are then considered buried and are not added to digg.com. A controversy which often surrounds digg.com is that users have too much control over the content being posted on the site. Some criticize the site for being an open forum where misinformation thrives. Although the site was set up to be a democratically styled news information site, many users complain that there posts have been blocked or there accounts disabled due to the posting of articles which do not reflect the views of the operators of the site. Still, many users believe digg.com is an excellent representation of what the masses are actually interested in. Several users find it refreshing and liberating that they can actually decide what constitutes as pertinent news. Here are two articles illustrating each of these views so you can decide for yourself which you agree with.
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/webportals/fr/diggreview.htm
http://www.populartechnology.net/2006/07/problems-with-diggcom.html
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Very informative articles Naveen!!!After reading these articles, it seems like information on diggs.com is not a qualatative news. I think digg.com provides with only information and stories that people want to know instead of what they should know. I also think that this proccess of digging and burying takes too long and by the time it is ready to be posted, the whole assence of the news is gone.
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