My first attempts to understand digg, the news-voting site, were a bit of a shambles, to be honest. I tried to work out the order and content of the front page and ended up in a tangle of half-remembered Maths lessons. Owen Byrne, senior software engineer at the service, put me out of my misery by commenting
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This is a personal attempt to understand the digg front page. I am not a mathematician, nor a coder nor an Excel wiz (all of which will become obvious). Nonetheless, I wanted to understand digg better than I did and decided a tiny bit of analysis was in order. This was the state of play on the front page at 16:25 BST today. Some very interesting debate recently about Metcalfe’s Law, network effects and its application to Web 2.0 communities. I picked up the trail at Silicon Beat here which led me to a post by Metcalfe himself here, and some clever comments in an earlier post by Fred Stutzman here. Metcalfe’s Law states that the value Being the Elvis of Web 2.0 is a busy job, it seems. I’ve been stalking Kevin Rose of digg for about six weeks, watching him sign a girl’s chest, hit the cover of BusinessWeek and attempt to fend off attempts to hire the service’s most loyal users. And basically, not getting to interview The digg topic What motivates the top one percent of digg’s users? has stirred up a hornet’s nest. The top-rated answer right now is “The urge to fit into society by boosting a [sic] e-penis with 35% growth” by dshPls. I think you sort of know what he means. The suggestion is that only one |             | |||
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