Comments on: Can You Guess Which Categories Make The Digg Home Page Most?

By: Richard Cunningham

Richard Cunningham — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Also I did a follow up which breaks down the tech stories into types:

http://blog.richardcunningham.co.uk/2008/02/more-digg-stats.html

Given that Digg has a very easy to use API, I don’t understand why people keep on doing this by hand, especially this CenterNetworks story which doesn’t even come close to being statistically significant.

By: sauce, weak

sauce, weak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

looks like a good ranking to me:
im kinda pleased to be associated

By: O'Please

O'Please — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You forgot “blog spam”

By: webaddict

webaddict — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For some reason I don’t feel these numbers show that “Digg” is promoting this content to the page, but that the content being submitted is more heavy in the categories that are ranking higher. If 1,000 stories are submitted in X category and 500 stories are submitted in Y category and 100 stories are submitted in Z category, wouldn’t you expect X category items to hit the frontpage more often? I don’t agree that Digg is weighing different categories differently to hit push them to the frontpage but is actually weighing the top categories you list making them harder to get a frontpage. It is true that more active categories require more Diggs to make FP so in fact, the argument this story makes is probably the exact opposite.

By: Stan Schroeder

Stan Schroeder — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice idea, did similar research a couple of weeks ago, with historical data, focusing on tech stories.

http://mashable.com/2008/02/05/digg-tech-section-analysis/

Based on this, some smart fellow created a graph using API data:

http://blog.richardcunningham.co.uk/2008/02/tech-stories-percentage-dropping-on.html

Bottom line: you don’t have to count manually (:

By: Tim Jansson

Tim Jansson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Everything that becomes mainstream, or strives for becoming that often tends to loose their high-tech-guy-visitor-ratio :(

Reddit, Stumbleupon & del.icio.us is my new home(s).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you want a real sampling of the topics you’re gonna have to span more than one day. Given the current political nonsense going on, you have to expect more stories coming non-tech sources. I would venture a guess that in a non election year the results would be slightly different.

By: Jack Shepler

Jack Shepler — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think it’s silly people complain about this. If you want tech stories, go to the tech section! It’s so easy!

By: Justin Kistner

Justin Kistner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Digg thinks their secret sauce is their platform, when in reality its platforms serves a market. IMHO, Digg needed to launch other networks and refine the functionality of those sites to optimize the belief systems for which they serve. Deciding to widen their audience after they are entrenched in a vertical dilutes their brand. 9rules.com made the same mistake. They blew up in the CSS design community, then decided to widen their focus and everyone left. Oops.

By: youtube

youtube — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

thanks a lot

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Personally I think Digg died the second they started acting like a big company… trying to please everyone and leaving their core audience – tech savvy people – behind. It died the day they started emphasizing crap like politics and entertainment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

would have thought that Comedy would be higher on the list
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2146727

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Digg is slowly deteriorating into a bathroom stall-like news source. Nearly all of the ‘most dugg’ items are either images or video, and they’re rarely of the educational variety. Sort of sucks. I used to like going to Digg to read up on new tech news and world events and whatnot, now I go if I want to find a kid getting shot in the pancreas with a potato cannon…

Just found a newsreader out there that exists that bases it’s content on what the user actually WANTS to see. It’s ‘Sprout’, a “new intuitive newsreader that sends content to the user based on their personal preferences.” (says their site). There’s a free trial on now. You can find it here: http://www.yoursprout.ca.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

originally Digg pulled me away from slashdot, but as there tech base dwindles i find myself slowly heading back

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, only been following the Digg swarm for 8-12 months, but never really saw it as “Tech Only”. Slashdot remains Tech-only AFAIAC and Digg is just this SFW place I can get funny pictures.

“Oh Noes!!! Digg has been Raypd by the Interwebs”