Digg overhauls its definition of 'popular' articles
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The social networking and news sharing site has always kept the precise details of its popularity algorithms a secret. But today, Digg did announce the nature of a change which could alter the entire meaning and purpose of the site.
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Do you believe that? I was working on a longer article about the Digg.com bans, because ReveNews.com, a blogger News site with over 20 Bloggers was banned from digg.com because of one authors action. Multiple attempts were made to get the site unbanned without success. I needed a screenshot that shows the message that the URL [...]
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(InfoWorld) - Tagging, the emblematic activity of the "Web 2.0" and social computing era, appears destined for mainstream status, a new study concludes. Among U.S. Internet users, 28 percent have taggedÂ online content like blog entries, photos, Web sites, video clips, and news articles, The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports in a study released Wednesday. On any particular day, 7 percent of users engage in this activity to categorize and label material they upload or find on the Web. Justen Deal, a manager in Los Angeles who tags news articles on sites like Slashdot, believes that as the use of tagging increases, it will give blogging and the Web in general a significant boost by making content easier to organize and discover. "Right now we have one great big pile of stuff on the Web, and especially in the blogosphere," Deal said. "With tagging, both by the content author and the public, I think there'll be a good opportunity to start moving content into more specific, relevant piles, that would help make sorting through the blogosphere a lot easier and a lot more useful for a lot of people." Because this is Pew's first survey about tagging, the study doesn't quantify how fast tagging adoption is growing, but it points at the rising popularity of tagging sites like Flickr and del.icio.us as an indicator that the practice is increasing in popularity. Jill Hurst-Wahl, president of Hurst Associates, a digitization consulting firm in Syracuse, New York, began tagging about a year ago and finds it very useful and convenient. Recently, she has attended conferences in which attendees agree to tag their blog postings and photos about the event with specific labels. This has made it possible for her to find a wealth of material online from conference attendees in a way that would have been impossible, or at least much more difficult, without tagging. While she finds the 28 percent adoption rate the study reveals encouraging,Â Hurst-Wahl still encounters many people who are completely unfamiliar with the concept of tagging or who, ironically, do tag, but don't recognize the term or fully comprehend the scope of the practice. "To some extent, tagging is user friendly, but a lot of people don't understand it," she said in a phone interview. Tagging is catching on as people realize the convenience of categorizing sites and files online and as large Internet players like Google and Yahoo, which owns Flickr and del.icio.us, offer tagging features in their services, like Web mail, search, photo and video sharing,and social bookmarking, according to Pew. "The act of tagging is likely to be embraced by a more mainstream population in the future because many organizations are making it easier and easier to tag Internet content," the report reads. By giving people the chance to organize online content they're interested in and sharing it with others, tagging helps with the perennial challenge of finding useful things on the Web. "Tagging is a kind of next-stage search phenomenon -- a way to mark, store, and then retrieve the Web content that users already found valuable and of which they want to keep track," the report reads. For its study, Pew surveyed adult U.S. residents in December 2006 and found that men and women are equally likely to tag content online. "Taggers" are more likely to be under the age of 40, to have high education and income levels, and to have broadband Internet access at home.
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Wikimedia Foundation Inc.'s popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks Inc.
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Guess what is the most popular search word in the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary? It&#39;s blog. In case you didn&#39;t know, that&#39;s short for Web log, a form of online expression that has come into
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Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month.
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The world's most popular search engine has launched a new tool to improve access to academic publications.
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It unveiled new tools for user participation in an attempt to benefit from the popularity of social news features.
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Digg.com faced the wrath of its notoriously vocal users as complaints poured in about a new system for posting comments.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and other papers this morning ran a story stating that blog was the most common word visitors to Merriam Webster&#39;s online site sought a definition for throughout 2004.
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The most requested online definition this year was "blog" - a word not even yet officially in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster says.
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The social news site tries to curb fraud by changing the way community members promote its stories. The move sparks protest among the site's top users. In Monkey Bites
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Dave Naffziger posted a list of 183 Sites and Blogs of the Alexa&#8217;s Top 10,000 that are banned from Digg.com. Now it seems that the ban at least for ReveNews.com was lifted. I found out during the work on an article that made a case against the Digg bans. I used some content of my [...]
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Also: New modular Hummer 'more animalistic,' 'eco-friendlier'. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Just tried to log into Digg and received this response:  Upgrade in Process. New features are minutes away&#8230; Can&#8217;t wait to see what the new features are :)
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The term &quot;blog&quot; has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by a US dictionary publisher. Merriam-Webster said &quot;blog&quot; headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months.
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short for &quot;Weblog&quot; -- was the most-frequently requested definition at Merriam-Webster&#39;s online dictionary site, the publisher says.