Digg
Digg says that it’s a totally democratic service. Users not only create the content, but can boost its numbers by “Digging” it. If you see something you like on Digg, you “digg” it and the more a story is dugg, the higher up it goes.
On the other hand, if you see something you don’t like, you can “bury” it. If something gets buried enough, it disappears. Actually, it can still be seen on the profiles of people who dugg it, but it’s not on the main page anymore. You also have the option to comment on anything you see on Digg, and you can “undigg” something you dugg, if you change your mind.
The way Digg basically works is that somebody submits a story. This can be an article, a cool site, a video or a blog post. Most of the stuff I’ve seen on Digg are what you might call “articles.” Mostly, they have information or opinions on some current event or new product. You have to wait 12-24 hours while it’s in the “upcoming stories” section. After it gets read a few times, it goes to the regular page, “popular stories.”
The main topics on Digg are Technology, Science, World & Business, Sports, Entertainment and Gaming, and each one has sub-topics. Most of the stories are of an informational nature, and the stories that get dugg a lot have tons and tons of comments.
Digg is a site that offers users lots of customization options. You can set filters (like a profanity filter), and you can select which topics you would like to see.
Digg has some crazy features where you can see stories in real-time getting dugg. It’s almost like watching a video game. “Digg Stack” shows the top stories at the bottom, and little white squares fall onto them as users Digg them, and then stack up on top. “Digg Swarm” shows the stories swimming around and little orange circles attaching themselves to the stories as they get dugg.
You can also pick a feature called “Digg Spies” and watch comments and diggs appear in real time.
You have lots of options with Digg’s RSS Feeds. In addition to regular feeds, you can subscribe to certain topics and certain users. This makes it easy to watch all the new stuff that gets dugg.
And, everywhere all over the Digg site, you have the option of clicking on the profanity filter, which turns all the bad words into rows of asterisks. You can keep it clean if you prefer it that way!
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