Digg will eventually replace my RSS subscriptions Mar28 '06
Earlier, I questioned the value of Digg. Now... I’m really starting to "see the light."
Why the change of heart?
I just started subscribing (RSS) to results of Digg searches. In other words, if you search the Digg site for any search term - we’ll use CSS as an example - you’re returned all recent Digg’s with "CSS" in them, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed for that search.
Not really an amazing breakthrough - I know. But... here me out.
First off, I’m amazed at how many "Diggs" are submitted each day. It’s astounding. The sheer amount of information at that site is enough to make me want to just dump the rest of my RSS subscriptions.
Now, why would I do that, you wonder?
Here’s how I see it:
Digg’s "democratic approach" acts as a filter for my technical RSS feed viewing.
So... instead of me "sifting through" hundreds of RSS feeds of technical sites that I subscribe to - I can just have Digg point me to the "best of the bunch." That’s all I want to see, anyway.
You gotta figure that the sites that I currently subscribe to would eventually show up, anyway - if the articles are popular (or helpful) enough.
So, in a way, I’m trusting Digg to have the content that I’m after, without me having to manually subscribe to that content, on my own.
Does this makes sense? I’m not sure if I sound like I’m rambling about utterly pointless technical issues.
You can think of it this way:
When I manually subscribe to an RSS feed - let’s say for Wired News - that’s a one to one relationship. It’s me pointing to Wired. One to one.
So, whenever Wired updates their RSS feed, I have to manually sift through that feed. The "work" is on me.
What I want to happen is to have Digg sift through that feed for me, and point me to the best articles.
And the bigger Digg gets, the more ground it will cover.
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