Wired Article about Digg and Slashdot

A Wired article goes into some detail on the new social editing site Digg.com. It discusses the history of the two sites and the effect Digg is having on the sites it links to. Everyone is aware of the slashdot effect, crippling smaller sites but this seems to also be happening to the links in Digg.com. A much greater volume of stories are submitted to Digg compared to Slashdot but these are filtered through a social thumbs up system.

As I discussed in a previous post...this has its negative effects but on the whole popular stories get pushed to the top very quickly. Only time will tell whether people will still flock to these social websites or whether this craze dies down and something more like a hybrid of the two (digg and slashdot) comes out.