tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004575200320231085.post3749172388623470563..comments2024-01-22T02:15:32.357-08:00Comments on Larry Marder's Beanworld: Another Place I Absolutely Need To Visit Someday!Larry Marderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936917049779513696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004575200320231085.post-16664814223232891322007-08-12T16:29:00.000-07:002007-08-12T16:29:00.000-07:00I'm not even going to try to explain it when I thi...I'm not even going to try to explain it when I think Wikipedia does it quite well:<BR/><BR/>"Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.<BR/><BR/>News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ."<BR/><BR/>There is a lot more there @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg<BR/>but I'm not really that concerned with how it works and the politics of how stuff moves up and down and in and out of the site. <BR/><BR/>I just like popping and and seeing what folks are interested in RIGHT NOW!Larry Marderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936917049779513696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004575200320231085.post-14260596710642611222007-08-11T09:11:00.000-07:002007-08-11T09:11:00.000-07:00I had never heard of Digg before I started reading...I had never heard of Digg before I started reading your blog. I can't quite get a handle on what it is. It seems like Wikipedia on steroids. Have you ever posted any articles to it? Lots of really interesting stuff there, at any rate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004575200320231085.post-57529408863918711302007-08-10T22:40:00.000-07:002007-08-10T22:40:00.000-07:00We should make (and our ancestors should've made) ...We should make (and our ancestors should've made) places like Proffy's Fix It Shop which survive to be used and inhabited by later generations... But as they are learning at <A HREF="http://www.longnow.org/" REL="nofollow">The Long Now Foundation</A>, it's far from an easy taskJJAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06909590539906298789noreply@blogger.com