@MrBabyMan says: Please dont let individual content curation die!
August 29 2010, 2:51am
Please dont let individual content curation die out for the sake of RSS auto-fed publisher accounts:
- I clipped this quite long Twitlonger from @MrBabyMan
He has some interesting thoughts about the New Digg. I like it.
Follow me on the new Digg here: http://digg.com/svartlingClipped from www.twitlonger.com On Saturday 28th August 2010, @MrBabyMan said: @KevinRose @Digg_community Please dont let individual content curation die out for the sake of RSS auto-fed publisher accounts. Ive been telling the Digg team this since I was invited to Digg HQ to test the V4 alpha earlier this year. Publisher accounts are currently dominating Diggs front page. I completely understand the financial need to engage publishers, but without the individual-user posts that, in my opinion, made Digg a unique destination for original content, the new Digg has no more relevance than a Popurls or an Alltop (sorry, Guy), merely repeating (relinking) what everyone else is linking.My concern is, that if Digg solely exists now to serve mainstream publishers, then it may as well be a publisher-to-publisher service, as the appeal for the individual user to visit the site will have been replaced by a constant stream of ad-supported marketing. Im not concerned for Diggs former users, as there are plenty of other destinations for them to find unique, original content, but it saddens me to see Digg, once the best of the best destination, stray from its core competency.Read more at www.twitlonger.com
