Sunday, October 3, 2010

#22 Other Web 2.0 - Digg

Digg is a fantastic resource/time waster.  It provides a healthy mixture of the latest headlines with a nice selection of humorous lists/comics/other content.  The content is linked to by users and then other users either click a link that they "digg" the link or they do not click said link.  You can then browse by recent links or by amount "digg" ('d? ed? dug?) in the past 24 hours / 7 days / 30 days.  You can also browse by various section titles.  After reading an article/viewing the content of the post you can then comment and discuss the link with other users. I am uncertain about what is moderated out but it appears that there is a fair amount of content that might be deemed "inappropriate" by certain individuals though there must be some filter because I would imagine that there would be many more spam/explicit content links.  I think that this site could be used in libraries by librarians to stay on top of the latest tech news and also by users though implementing it in any formal way is probably not a great idea given some of the more questionable content.

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