The fact that a story in Business Week about the founder of Digg (Kevin Rose) has got so many ‘diggs’ on Digg, makes you wonder about the bias that occurs on the community edited site. The story ‘BusinessWeek DIGGS Cover Boy Kevin Rose - Millionaire! Valley Boy!‘ had 4113 votes (or diggs) when we visited the community-edited tech news site, making the story that was only added to the site yesterday, the second most popular in a month’s worth of stories. The recent Digg-attack on the launch of the new Netscape service was a great example of the bias that Digg has to report on itself rather than tech news.
Don’t get us wrong. We love Digg and the access to content we’d never normally find through traditional media - it just seems to run on mob mentality a little too often.
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Just had to say that I loved your title, and the fact that it makes sense is even better!
August 4th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
The mob mentality is one of the inherent failings of the wisdom of crowds that digg relies on, I guess. It’s also a self seleting audience people will read and post what they want to see - something that always undermines the wisdom of crowds.
August 4th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Isn’t it funny that bloggers blog on their personal blogs and digg it again about their blog on digg and other community websites?
Digg site is mostly read by bloggers and very few readers stumble on this site to read stuff.
August 4th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Ah, but the bias is why we flock to digg.
Screw objectivity. Give me mob-ruled, self-important, biased content. I clicked that link, and I read that article. It was a good article.
I love the bias.
August 4th, 2006 at 6:55 pm