Thing 12_Do You Digg

Why yes, yes I do digg, as of today. This was yet another area of web 2.0 that was within my awareness, on the horizon within my vision but that I'd not bothered to tinker with it. I have an account on Digg. Honestly, "digging" news is not something that really excites me and when I started sifting through what other people had dugg within the news, I was rather saddened by all the hard, sad news stories. And thus, I have chosen to digg one of my new favorite blogs - Zen Habits. This particular piece provides a detailed look at how to re-evaluate ones use of time so that it can be re-focused on goals of meaning or simply relax more!

I can definitely see libraries introducing their patrons to this... possibly having a Digg account where the librarians and staff would spend time digging library related stories and other news of interest. If they had a blog as well, they could use it to blog these items... which is time savings and a fun way to shake up the usual blog post. For colleges, I could see subject specialist librarians and staff using this as a way to point students toward current news stories of interest.

My favorite site for new related posting continues to be Plastic.com however I don't spend much time there and can't say its current situation. It's definitely not as flexible as digg, mixx, etc. However, Plastic provides more of a sense of community within the site and it's primary focus is having members of the community create write-ups that are a summation of the news stories available on a topic, with hyperlinks to their sources. Then members of the community who have risen to the rank of moderators vote on whether those stories will be posted to the front pages. Comments are also ranked for purposes of moderation.

Finally another site that is one my mind is Babbledog, which is also more single community intense. Overall - there is a fascinating world that is culling through the online news.

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