Digg
From LIS 460 Summer 2007
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What is Digg?
Digg is a website that combines social bookmarks, blogs, and syndicated news releases. Information submitted by users is then ranked by other users. When Digg first began emphasis was placed on science and technology articles and information. Recently, Digg has expanded into other areas such as, world and business, sports, gaming, and entertainment.
Features of Digg
User based rankings
Categories and sub-categories
Uses of Digg in a school library
Students could be given topics to research and rank
An alternative to the common search engines
Resources for Digg
http://www.plentymag.com/blogs/beat/2007/07/wheres_the_green_digg.php
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/07/16/facebook-spawns-new-industry-news-feed-optimization
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19057/?a=f
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/17559&t51hb
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;2044217980;fp;2;fpid;1
