Where Is Your Online News REALLY Coming From?

There's a growing interest about the ways in which people are gathering their daily news and information online. Apparently, these days, it's possible for your irascible neighbour to have a serious effect on the news which percolates to the top of the rankings and headlines that are fed to your browser. As the politics of change evolve under the influence directional forces employed by economic superpowers, the Internet is apparently becoming more democratically diverse every day. Witness the populist context of Digg and del.icio.us. Compare them to the Big Four of Google, MSN, AOL and Yahoo.

Digg demands that users remain patient during the process of slogging through relevancies, irrelevancies and the broad absence of editorial consistency or quality, while also doing the work of actually clicking on links in order to express approval or support for specific news and information items. Digg is essentially a technology news & information web site that gives editorial control to the Internet community by allowing users to submit links for review. Rather than an editor doing the review, users essentially do it by also clicking (digging) the link, thereby deciding which links go on the home page. When a user submits a story to one of the top level categories, The story is filed into the "digg" area of the category. Other users on the site read the story, and may click the "digg this story" link. As an article acquires diggs, its ranking improves. Based on its popularity, Digg removes the story from the staging area, and promotes it to the home and category pages. More . . .