Digg has terrific technology and these early APIs are a great extension of that fabulous technology, however, no amount of tech can hide the irrelevance of their submitted stories. You can visit the homepage at any given time and 13 of the 15 stories listed will be of no consequence whatsoever. Digg was a novel idea, but the results of that idea on the content they promote is AWFUL!
spanky
· 2 years ago
remember, that's of "no consequence whatsoever" TO YOU.
j
· 2 years ago
spanky, its okay to admit you have no life
wraptinweb
· 2 years ago
Dear eBusiness - Commentators like Om Malik use Digg, but find their best stories on pages 2 or 3 of the most popular in last 24 hours. I've found it surprising how many "worthwhile" stories are discovered and elevated to that level. As in many things in life - it often pays to look beneath the surface.
Josh
· 2 years ago
So given their previous actions... shouldn't Digg have to send a cease and desist to most of these services for using their name?
Andreas
· 2 years ago
I think the Digg API is a huge step forward for Digg, and it is about time that they got one. But it has been possible to build apps on top of Digg already before, check out Personal Digg RSS built on openkapow.com way before the Digg got it's API.
Ali
· 2 years ago
All of these tools are really cool.
I wonder who's going to win the contest that they are sponsoring.
1389
· 2 years ago
As eBusiness pointed out above, the problem is with Digg's content. Trouble is, Digg isn't what it seems. The stories selected for the front page are anything but the "democratic" choices of the Digg user community. The results aren't "grass roots," they are "astroturf."
The people who work at Digg have the power to decide which stories to promote and which to bury, which users to keep and which to ban, and how to tweak the "secret Digg algorithm" to give the desired slant to th mix of stories on the front page. Either they can promote or bury stories on their own, or they can stand by and allow others who share their own tastes and outlook to do it for them.
No doubt that's why Digg's front page looks more like MoveOn.org or Daily Kos or al Jazeera every day.
There are no checks and balances, and no audit trail, to reveal who is BURYING stories, as opposed to who is digging them. If you have been on Digg for any length of time, you can see for yourself that any story that portrays Muslims in anything other than a positive light, or that might serve to alert the public to jihadist activities, is buried forthwith. Same with any political story that is not from a left-wing point of view.
How do I know that this is done with the knowledge and the approval of Digg's staff? Simple. They have the power to clean up this mess, but they choose not to. Moreover, anybody who complains about Digg not being entirely on the up-and-up is banned immediately and permanently. The same thing happens with anybody who points out the obvious pro-jihadist presence among Digg's membership.
Digg, in short, is a cesspool, and dressing it up with a fancy API is like putting lipstick on...oh, never mind!
err
· 2 years ago
@1389
Go smoke a joint
plicko
· 2 years ago
"or al Jazeera"
oh yes. that's right. conservapedia is calling. make yourself useful. digg is predominately tech oriented. is there a cabal against the luddites too?
Rob X
· 2 years ago
"No doubt that’s why Digg’s front page looks more like MoveOn.org or Daily Kos or al Jazeera every day."
Sounds like you're one of the LGF'ers so far right of everyone else, that you complain when reality isn't reflecting your bizarre world view. At a certain point we call that insanity.
alex
· 2 years ago
dude, has anyone ever heard of “if you dont like it, dont read/watch/listen (to) it? who are these people, and since when do we have so many homosexuals in this country?lol, U SUCK
dogsteins
· 2 years ago
Sounds like a classic case of right-wing paranoia with inability to think complicating the illness.
Bob
· 2 years ago
You should go live in a 3r world country for a year or 2. You would find out that you have more freedoms here than here.
You don't have to go on the internet.
if you do you don't have to visit DIGG.
Why don't you follow what is being said by George Tenet as to how Cheney spreads and controls what he wants.
Also how inept Condi Rice is at running groups by running from controversy.
trung
· 2 years ago
@err
calm down man.
Chris
· 2 years ago
I use Smart Digg it is cool, they just make it easy for the users, now we need to wait for Mashable API :)
Mix it up, republish the headlines with attribution or linkback, or use it in your news aggregator. Awesome!
Chris
· 2 years ago
I am just a beginner, hopefully guys can build an API and we can use it like a Firefox Extension :)
Hip Hop
· 2 years ago
I will be using the customizable feed @ school =)
j
· 2 years ago
what digg needs is some kind of moderated priority system for submissions by diggers who are unbiased and intelligent. oh wait. there are none. agreed with above, the community is a cesspool- there's almost no point in ever commenting on any story from the ignorable responses you get. aww...it's too bad you cant digg me down for this.
1389
· 2 years ago
That's why I don't spend much time on Digg any more, not even as a lurker. But, OTOH, I am still a bit concerned about the bad effect that sites such as Digg and Daily Kos are having on society as a whole...lowering the tone of political speech to the level of xxx-rated name-calling, ad-hominem attacks, anti-Semitic rants reminiscent of Julius Streicher, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, veiled and not-so-veiled threats, you name it.
You saw some of it here when the ad-hominem-attackers came out of the woodwork as soon as I made that comment above.
Their purpose--and it is a shameful one--is to silence anyone who might attempt to question their preferred world view, especially leftist downplaying of, or outright support of, jihadism. Among other things, they aim to silence anybody who might alert any of the world's non-jihadists to the very real dangers of jihadism.
What they forget is that, if their "friends" the jihadists actually were to attain power and to implement shari'a law, they'd be the first to go.
Mange
· 2 years ago
Here's a tips for all the Digg-haters (like me): Just ignore it. Digg should be treated like all the other sites with a huge mass of online people (MySpace, Youtube, etc.). It's a known formula: 10% of the population is smart and reasonable and the rest usually miss these qualities. As soon as a bucnh of people get together on the web, all we get is some gray unintelligent mass of stupidness.
If you want the smart moderation, good stories, etc. move to a smaller site, preferably not something that like to call itself "social network".
I do the same thing as all intelligent internet users (a.k.a. "geeks"): Ignore Digg. Ignore MySpace.
I am hoping, like all other nerds, that this raping of the word "blog" will end soon, too. People tend to think "blog" as of some type of "diary on the internet", and that's why we have this huge stream of new "bloggers blogging in the blogosphere posting podcasts and watching videopodcasts" and all that nonsense. Sometimes, I wonder if anyone here remember what a real blog is. A blog should be entierly objective and never contain the word "I" or "me". When this dies out like the website craze of '94 (when every pet and baby should have their own website with three pictures on it), Digg will propably die out too. And so is MySpace perhaps.
To summarize: Just ignore it and let the people who enjoy Digg do. They'll get bored soon.
I'm just ranting, not trying to offend anybody. :-) You don't have to agree with me, and don't care if you do or do not agree. This is my humble opinions and I'm gonna stick to them.
Have a nice day!
PS. I really hope no one else has ever used "The Digg Effect" to decribe the Slashdot Effect. The Slashdot Effect is the "real" name and it have been here for several years.
Mark Nutter
· 2 years ago
Just a quick thought, isn't blog a pseudonym for "Web Log" as in logbook/diary? So people writing down their thoughts would techically be exactly what blogging is all about.
Mange
· 2 years ago
Actually, it was more derived from the "log" as in "progress log". Blogs was primarly used by developers to write about their progress during different development stages, and of course to present new features and give friendly tips to the rest of the development FOSS community. It's sad people don't know about this, but then again, it's not strange. Most people don't even know what programmers even do, so why would they know anything about how they work? :-)
I'm not trying to sound elitist here. Don't think that. I'm just saying, there is the origin of blogs, and now blogs are everywhere doing bad things. Many programmers have even stopped calling it "blogs" altogether just to be separated from that crowd. Developers tend to expands the name nowadays (with our without space).
alex
· 2 years ago
dude, has anyone ever heard of "if you dont like it, dont read/watch/listen (to) it? who are these people, and since when do we have so many homosexuals in this country?lol, U SUCK
Mange
· 2 years ago
Yeah, I think the first sentence in your comment summarized my post quite well, however, I don't see the point in bashing homosexuals. To be honest, the bash, the "lol" and the use of a single letter to spell a word with three letters just prove you are part of a group of people called "imbeciles". Don't you agree that comment was a bit unneccessary?
alex
· 2 years ago
yeah, my bad dude, my comment was for 1389, but for some reason they posted it way down here but seriously, doesn't that guy need to wipe the sand out of his pussy?
alex
· 2 years ago
seriously, dude, i didnt mean to post that for you...im sorry
Mange
· 2 years ago
That's okay. No problem. ;-) I thought your comment was pretty "out of place". That explains it...
RS
· 2 years ago
Someow this ends up in my diaries of things which are fukkdup.
Mark Nutter
· 2 years ago
Here's an app I put together last week. It's a histogram style viewer for digg stories, with the x-axis being number of digs and the y-axis being time:
Woops.. looks like Digg Commentspy is the first one on your list. Woops.. oh well, his new app is awesome too.
dogsteins
· 2 years ago
Funny how all you Einsteins who digg-bash are spending all your time over at digg, digging and bashing. If you think this is so messed up, why don't you just stay in your own little corner of the internet?
Do you ever ask yourselves what draws you to digg? Repeatedly?
I should think if your side is the smartest 10%, you'd be much happier there, no?
Mange
· 2 years ago
Actually, I've only spent like 5 minutes on Digg. I'm not some kind of self-hating hypocrite. ;-) And why yes, I am happier there in my own "corner". I don't need other people to point me in what direction to "surf to".
1laradream
· 2 years ago
The Digg API looks like a step forward for Digg, a handful of useful applications and ideas.
dw
· 2 years ago
Cool! I'm installing the firefox plugin now. Thanks for the heads up. :)
Motorcycle Guy
· 2 years ago
that diggest is probably the most creative idea, but also the most retarded.
Chad
· 2 years ago
I added another feature to DiggReSS: it will now (optionally) embed video from YouTube, Google Video, and MetaCafe in the feed.
paul
· 2 years ago
I've been dabbling with the Digg API and it's pretty good.
All Comments
I wonder who's going to win the contest that they are sponsoring.
The people who work at Digg have the power to decide which stories to promote and which to bury, which users to keep and which to ban, and how to tweak the "secret Digg algorithm" to give the desired slant to th mix of stories on the front page. Either they can promote or bury stories on their own, or they can stand by and allow others who share their own tastes and outlook to do it for them.
No doubt that's why Digg's front page looks more like MoveOn.org or Daily Kos or al Jazeera every day.
There are no checks and balances, and no audit trail, to reveal who is BURYING stories, as opposed to who is digging them. If you have been on Digg for any length of time, you can see for yourself that any story that portrays Muslims in anything other than a positive light, or that might serve to alert the public to jihadist activities, is buried forthwith. Same with any political story that is not from a left-wing point of view.
How do I know that this is done with the knowledge and the approval of Digg's staff? Simple. They have the power to clean up this mess, but they choose not to. Moreover, anybody who complains about Digg not being entirely on the up-and-up is banned immediately and permanently. The same thing happens with anybody who points out the obvious pro-jihadist presence among Digg's membership.
Digg, in short, is a cesspool, and dressing it up with a fancy API is like putting lipstick on...oh, never mind!
Go smoke a joint
oh yes. that's right. conservapedia is calling. make yourself useful. digg is predominately tech oriented. is there a cabal against the luddites too?
Sounds like you're one of the LGF'ers so far right of everyone else, that you complain when reality isn't reflecting your bizarre world view. At a certain point we call that insanity.
You would find out that you have more freedoms here than here.
You don't have to go on the internet.
if you do you don't have to visit DIGG.
Why don't you follow what is being said by George Tenet
as to how Cheney spreads and controls what he wants.
Also how inept Condi Rice is at running groups by running from controversy.
calm down man.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/mashable
Mix it up, republish the headlines with attribution or linkback, or use it in your news aggregator. Awesome!
You saw some of it here when the ad-hominem-attackers came out of the woodwork as soon as I made that comment above.
Their purpose--and it is a shameful one--is to silence anyone who might attempt to question their preferred world view, especially leftist downplaying of, or outright support of, jihadism. Among other things, they aim to silence anybody who might alert any of the world's non-jihadists to the very real dangers of jihadism.
What they forget is that, if their "friends" the jihadists actually were to attain power and to implement shari'a law, they'd be the first to go.
Just ignore it. Digg should be treated like all the other sites with a huge mass of online people (MySpace, Youtube, etc.). It's a known formula: 10% of the population is smart and reasonable and the rest usually miss these qualities. As soon as a bucnh of people get together on the web, all we get is some gray unintelligent mass of stupidness.
If you want the smart moderation, good stories, etc. move to a smaller site, preferably not something that like to call itself "social network".
I do the same thing as all intelligent internet users (a.k.a. "geeks"): Ignore Digg. Ignore MySpace.
I am hoping, like all other nerds, that this raping of the word "blog" will end soon, too. People tend to think "blog" as of some type of "diary on the internet", and that's why we have this huge stream of new "bloggers blogging in the blogosphere posting podcasts and watching videopodcasts" and all that nonsense. Sometimes, I wonder if anyone here remember what a real blog is. A blog should be entierly objective and never contain the word "I" or "me". When this dies out like the website craze of '94 (when every pet and baby should have their own website with three pictures on it), Digg will propably die out too. And so is MySpace perhaps.
To summarize:
Just ignore it and let the people who enjoy Digg do. They'll get bored soon.
I'm just ranting, not trying to offend anybody. :-)
You don't have to agree with me, and don't care if you do or do not agree. This is my humble opinions and I'm gonna stick to them.
Have a nice day!
PS. I really hope no one else has ever used "The Digg Effect" to decribe the Slashdot Effect. The Slashdot Effect is the "real" name and it have been here for several years.
It's sad people don't know about this, but then again, it's not strange. Most people don't even know what programmers even do, so why would they know anything about how they work? :-)
I'm not trying to sound elitist here. Don't think that. I'm just saying, there is the origin of blogs, and now blogs are everywhere doing bad things. Many programmers have even stopped calling it "blogs" altogether just to be separated from that crowd. Developers tend to expands the name nowadays (with our without space).
Don't you agree that comment was a bit unneccessary?
but seriously, doesn't that guy need to wipe the sand out of his pussy?
I thought your comment was pretty "out of place". That explains it...
Diggraphy
Let me know what you think.
Digg Commentspy
and
Who's Digging You?
Do you ever ask yourselves what draws you to digg? Repeatedly?
I should think if your side is the smartest 10%, you'd be much happier there, no?
And why yes, I am happier there in my own "corner". I don't need other people to point me in what direction to "surf to".
So far I've built...
http://www.duggornot.com
...which allows users to check how their Digg story submissions are doing.
And...
http://www.duggornot.com/comment_reader.html
... to see how their comments are doing.
They're still in early development but I've learnt a lot about the Digg API in the mean time.