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ninjafire.com — By adding metadata tags to digg stories, Digg.com could become the ultimate social bookmarking service.

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  • MEvsYOU, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0traffic seeker! DIE blogger!
  • patrickweber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, i'd be sweet to have like technorati tags for digg instead.
  • phishyJon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0front page...why???
  • KingAR_II, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0phishjon... It's because people have a bad habit of digging before reading some of this crap.
  • mattclare, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Can I dumpp a story?
  • ProfMoriarty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I don't know why anyone is complaining. Really, if you hate a story so much, then at least elaborate instead of just whining. Be constructive or just leave it the hell alone.
  • abstractia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I modified the post a bit to get more to the point. I'm not trying to be a traffic whore, only to suggest that Digg add Metadata tags to stories. I also disabled comments on the blog, as people started spamming. Don't digg it if it's not relevant.
  • ProfMoriarty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I think I'm seeing a pattern where people are being punished for submitting their own work. If the work is relevant, I don't see what the problem is.
  • djits88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Don't take it personal. Most of the whiners don't contribute to Digg that much anyways, except when it comes to flooding the comment section of posts they don't agree with. I see this post has 7 comments, but I only see four. This must mean that they have made a habit out of it, and I lowered their comment rating. Works wonders.
  • KingAR_II, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0It's amazing how you can get flamed for being honest. This article is such a load of crap... it's about NOTHING - sue me.
  • OMGLINUXWOAH, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0If you don't know what the problem is with free advertising then you should probably learn internet at little better.
  • DannoHung, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't really think Digg is the appropriate venue for social bookmarking.

    If it's pushed into bookmarking, then it loses the time based relevancy that is afforded to it as a news site, which is really the big reasn that I, personally, come here.

    Don't try to make an applicaton be something it's not. Digg is highly purposed for news and it serves that function well.
  • trvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3DannoHung:

    good point...but say if i wanted to look up articles about "linux"....i would have to search for it...and if the news story was titled something like "Red Hat 9.* released"...it wouldnt show up in the results...but with tags...the submitter of the story would tag the story as "linux" along with whatever tags he felt were neccessary...and then it makes it a lot easier to find things. get what I am trying to say?

    and to everyone bitching about self-advertisting, screw off..the guy wrote a good article, he submitted it, and others liked it...
  • trogdor123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DannoHung, you make an very good point. In fact, I think this story serves as an example of why Digg should'nt be used for social bookmarking. You could say I've changed my mind on the subject since writing my blog post.

    When users, like myself, submit sites and articles to a bookmarking service, they aren't posting them as news, but as places to visit or opinions to be considered. News is something that is supposed to be fresh, on topic, and possessing certain journalistic qualities. Bookmarks can be anything, from cool flash games, to insightful blog posts, to tutorials, etc.

    Perhaps digg should stick to one thing and do it well. When we start diluting digg with social bookmarks, the real news stories can get caught in the muck. Case in point, my blog entry. It's certainly not news and has little journalistic qualities, and only serves to dilute digg news.

    I appologize to those users who we're irked that this story was promoted to the home page. I cannot control the mechanics of Digg. I merely wanted to suggest a new feature, which in retrospect, may not be the most healthy idea for Digg to adopt.

    I'm afraid that even if Digg isn't advertised as a social bookmarking service (although it is presently), people will still use it as such, because it allows users to share, store, and export stories to their own blogs via rss or blog posting.

    The signal to noise ratio might start to get out of hand folks.

    Perhaps the real feature should be figuring out how to filter out people who digg to add a new link to thier blog (such as my "Link Dump") from those who want to promote News to the home page.

    Either way, some quality control features need to be implemented. I can think of several possibilities, but I'm not the expert on this stuff. Right now, its just too easy to digg stories, and to digg stories without reading them. I think thats how my story got so many diggs.

  • abstractia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1- sorry about that, commented using a friend's computer and forgot to log him out. Trogdor123 was my comment. Sorry to confuse.
  • keng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think digg is just for news. Digg is for info and info has varying degrees of "shelf-life". Some stories can last for several years others a few hours. what's the problem with making them easily searchable? it wont change the fact that some articles are go stale quickly and some will stick around for a couple of years.
  • elamr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree with Trvr.

    Search feature is, for me, one of the most important tools on an huge and useful website. Adding Metatags would make searching digg easier.

    Digg is becoming so exhausted that its actually getting quite useful in some of my research. I personally use it for not only up to the second news but also to gather information on certain security issues that rise up.

    I really don't see how having a tag feature on any post you add would kill or slow down the speed or relevance of diggs content. If anything it would enhance it. Paricularly if they keep the current configuration and allow users to use tag features only if they want to.

    Frankly, there are so many incredible stories, links, tools, sites AND NEWS that crop up on digg that I can't keep up, so sometimes I'll go through and digg whatever I think is cool and read them later. Any story I read and really like (and is relevant to my site) gets blogged and expanded on once posted.

    Folksonomy Tags would really help out on the searches (adding del.icio.us and technorati features would also be EXTREMILY cool.)

    Contrary to what Danno and trogdor's comments on tags, I believe it would enhance the content managment of digg. Diggs search function is not that good.. don't know if anyone else realized this.

    Content is King, that is why Digg is Slashing Slashdot and the only thing BETTER that sites exploding with relevant focused content is a bad ass content manager such as Technorati, Google, del.icio.us, and My Yahoo (currently using RSS for users to add to their RSS database and RSS preferences). Think about it what does better on the Internet the content makers or the content managers. Folksonomy Tags gives the power of content management to the content makers. Yahoo has already begun changing their format to keep up with this trend.
  • PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@elamr: "Digg is becoming so exhausted that its actually getting quite useful in some of my research."

    I'll assume that you meant to say "exhaustive" and not "exhausted". That would be like saying you reached the end of the Internet ;)
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