Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been citing Digg as a source for some of my posts. For those of you that haven’t come across it yet, Digg is a relatively new social bookmarking site that draws comparisons to Slashdot and other similar sites. Wired Magazine goes so far as to suggest that “Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot:”
Slashdot is put together by an editorial board. Digg uses the collective wisdom of the masses and, consequently, news breaks faster.
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Critics also say Digg is more chaotic than Slashdot, which often features more technical, detailed conversations. But Digg, with its tight weblog integration and Flickr-like reliance on the collective efforts of its members, is pointing the way to a new wave of socially assembled news initiatives, organized and made sense of by readers themselves.
A post about the Wired article soon appeared on Slashdot, where the topic was discussed in a surprisingly objective manner.
Like many of the commenters at Slashdot, I personally visit both sites regularly, but I generally find that Slashdot stories are more technical-oriented where Digg stories tend to be more entertaining and reflective of current Interweb “buzz.” You can see the stories that I’ve “dugg” here, and if you’re really interested, digg vs. dot details how the sites fare “against” each other.
Update: teknokool.net posts about Diggdot.us, which combines results from Digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us popular. Very nice…
