Evil of Digg Overestimated
“Story rankings play havoc with traditional journalistic tenets” apparently. In his Dow Jones MarketWatch ‘Ethics Watch’ column, Thomas Kostigen says that digg-style news-voting systems are messing with his mind, continually tempting him to write popular stories. It emerges, however, that actually it’s not digg that is directly responsible, that’s just a trendy hook for the story. [...]
November 20, 2006