Earl 360 03/18/2007
Toward a Better Digg Annotated
Digg revolutionized social news when it launched in 2004. Since then, it has
become the undisputed champ of news link ranking sites. They just recently
crossed the million
mark. And their influence goes far beyond those user registration
numbers.
Tangible evidence of Digg’s importance: the raw number of clones and Digg
gaming schemes out there. We’ve seen rigging,
vote
buying, profile
sales, and accusations of thug rule. The dozens
of clones include a not-bad SourceForge project called Pligg, which lets users “build
their own Digg
