Another Quiet Day

Why Digg is Doomed

Dooooooooomed!:

This has become a major problem with Digg where a select few groups are controlling the contents of various sections. There is no motivation for the millions of other users who aren't a part of a digg-army and just want to submit good content in order to make a section better but can't make any contributions because people aren't using the digg system like it was designed.

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Jason Dowdell writes a short piece on the mechanics of Digg and how the social dynamics interact with said mechanics in such a way as to diminish Digg's usefulness.

This is hardly news, all applications with more than one user have a social dimension to it that changes or affects how the application functions in the real world.

Whether the social dimension of Digg will cause its downfall remains to be said; if Jason is right then it does seem to have problems with insularity and cliques.

Sounds like high school.

I do like the conceptual model behind Digg and the social side of applications of this sort will vary wildly from site to site. Even if Digg might fail, the rest are likely to grow and flourish as a group.

Baldur Bjarnason – 24/8/06