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As a brief aside, I have to say, I’m very pleased with Digg.com’s feature that allows you to instantly blog about anything that interests you on the site. The only thing I have to manually change is the category (it defaults to top-level on my WP blog engine), since I don’t mind the “read more” and “digg story” links at the bottom of every article.

Incidentally, I’m not sure where Digg is headed. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s the hottest news-site going, and is being compared to Slashdot. I don’t know; the community of wide-ranging eggheads with egos on Slashdot sort of “makes” the sense of community for me, and the arrogance, sarcasm, and inside jokes along with questionable information make it feel like one big ethereal house party. Also, the tiered structure of the comments, with many more options as to ratings than Digg, helps filter out the good from the bad on Slashdot. But Digg is up-and-coming, and somehow the concept of user-moderated posting and editing filters is appealing. Even if it does mean ridiculous amounts of junk coming through the pipes on issues about which I have no interest (in all fairness, I could correct this by subscribing to the RSS-fed sub-sections, but that detracts from the appeal, IMHO).

As a brief aside, I have to say, I’m very pleased with Digg.com’s feature that allows you to instantly blog about anything that interests you on the site. The only thing I have to manually change is the category (it defaults to top-level on my WP blog engine), since I don’t mind the “read more” and “digg story” links at the bottom of every article.

Incidentally, I’m not sure where Digg is headed. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s the hottest news-site going, and is being compared to Slashdot. I don’t know; the community of wide-ranging eggheads with egos on Slashdot sort of “makes” the sense of community for me, and the arrogance, sarcasm, and inside jokes along with questionable information make it feel like one big ethereal house party. Also, the tiered structure of the comments, with many more options as to ratings than Digg, helps filter out the good from the bad on Slashdot. But Digg is up-and-coming, and somehow the concept of user-moderated posting and editing filters is appealing. Even if it does mean ridiculous amounts of junk coming through the pipes on issues about which I have no interest (in all fairness, I could correct this by subscribing to the RSS-fed sub-sections, but that detracts from the appeal, IMHO).