Interview digg.com CEO Jay Adelson
Reporter's Notebook
Research some of the high and low points digg.com has hit since its launch two years ago. Ask Adelson how the site has evolved, and where he sees it going in the years ahead.
The interview itself is a one-person job. Once it's assigned, we'll work together on planning for the interview, and will ask the crowd to submit ideas for questions.
Background
Social News Sites: The Crowd Is the Editor
What's the most important news of the day? Traditionally this was decided by the editor of your newspaper. It was a top-down decision, not open for debate. Social news sites, however, have turned it into a raging conversation, where votes are cast, stories are commented on and a community decides for itself what it believes to be the best or most newsworthy stories from the net. The front page has been crowdsourced. We want to hone in on the specific ways that social news sites have changed the media industry.
Social news sites like Digg found inspiration from social bookmarking destinations like Del.icio.us. The difference that Digg pioneered was focusing on dynamic content and daily news stories. "We were trying to come up with ways to describe it. It has the same social component of social bookmarking but its rally about dynamic content," said Jay Adelson CEO of Digg.com to our own David Cohn. "In Digg's world what you are syndicating when you 'digg' that story to all your friends is something that is very time sensitive, because you wouldn't 'digg' that story tomorrow, because it would be old news."
Digg is just the begining of the social news story. Other sites are:
Newsvine (Newsvine has a core group of volunteers working in thr Assignment Zero crowd. You Newsviners can offer details of your experiences on your site in the reporters' notebook -- and on the survey -- but please leave the third-party reporting to others.)
Reddit (Disclaimer: Reddit is owned by Conde Net, which also owns Wired.com.)
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