Digg Sells to Betaworks for $500k: Bigger Disaster Than MySpace?

Pfft, I remember using Digg in Middle School. Everyone uses reddit or some other social feed now.

MySpace is a trainwreck, though.

I like myspace better than Digg but Sodahead totally rules!

never used

meh.

agree

The social media and the imagination of these people have coct them mant and many of jobs because it is monitered by prospective employers and what is posted is taken as truth.

But I still wont invest in any of them.

I have heard of Myspace....

Sad

Allow me to introduce myself.

I am an inveterate member of the Digg Patriots. Never heard of us, I suppose. Well, a lot of the liberal denizens of Digg will literally talk of nothing else in their comments. I'll give you a universal answer to their canards: we merely gave the liberals a taste of their own medicine.

And in the process of turning Digg into a liberal-dominated network, they caused a lot of people to leave in disgust. The administration compounded the problem with their "reforms" that didn't help matters any, but merely made them worse.

They had their chance to make sure that Digg would be a place of fair play. They blew it, big-time. I have no respect whatsoever for Kevin Rose or any other member of his staff. They just got what they deserved.

You seem to be a lot more informed than I am. May I ask you to explain a few things to me? First and foremost who or what exactly is Digg? Then explain how this sale was a Social Media disaster? or was Digg itself a social media disaster? if so, How?

Digg was the first of the social mark-up sites. It started by marking up articles of technological interest only. Then it opened a political section.

And totally cast aside every notion of fairness in policing it.

It got so that no conservative dared respond to a liberal submission, unless he just flat didn't care about getting kicked off the site for good. Once I started leaving the same comment in reply to a particular bit of liberal snidery:

"Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"

That earned a ban. For "spam."

Digg turned itself into a disaster. It's a train wreck. And now, incredibly, they're blaming all of Digg's troubles on the Digg Patriots. I've just had to leave a comment on an article on ZDNet by Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols, telling him to stop repeating lies, and telling Kevin Rose that if he tries to blame me in public for diminishing the value of his investment, *I* will sue *him*.

Thank You for informing me about who they are because I never heard of them so I couldn't make an opinion. You are so right any site that kicks somebody off because they do not agree with something said is not a site worth going to anyway.

You're welcome.

In case you never heard the line:

"Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"

That is the trigger sentence given to Army S. Sgt. Raymond Shaw in /The Manchurian Candidate/.

agree