Social News is Mainstream News
Social News sites like Digg and Reddit have built a reputation for being focused on 2 things: the offbeat and the tech-oriented. Mainstream media has shied away from using the social news aggregation sites because they didn’t believe their stories would do well.
Times have changed.
Social news is mainstream news. In a recent study, we discovered [...]
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One Response to “Social News is Mainstream News”
February 6th, 2010 saat: 2:47 pm
With 20,000+ stories submitted and only 120 or so promoted, I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call it “social news” (also, out of the many thousands of daily readers, what percentage actually SUBMIT articles?). Digg is really a collection of articles selected by Digg editors/admins so it is very much like The Drudge Report in the end (minus the obvious right wing slant). Either way, Digg does well so good for them!
nostromo from thedailyrazor.com
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