Interview With Digg.com Founder, Kevin Rose
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Digg is a website at the forefront of social news promotion for technology-based articles. Users submit stories they find interesting to a continuously updated archive where others can comment or vote approvingly/disapprovingly. Articles with the most positive “diggs” are then promoted to the main page, and it is likely tens of thousands of people will then read it. Digg also features RSS and blogging capabilities for its user. To see a live stream of activity on Digg.com (articles submitted, promoted, demoted, and commented on), check out Digg Spy.
1) What is “important news” and can the internet public be relied on to “digg” it?
- Important news is news that is relevant to a specific community. Rather than having those editorial decisions made by a very limited number of people, digg lets the community decide. We believe in the wisdom of crowds. In that sense, digg helps people to sift through the “information overload” of the Web and the estimated one terabyte of new content that is added to the Web every day.
