While I was checking out a batch of new blogs the other day, I came across Feeddit which is a pumped up version of the Digg RSS feed - just the ticket if you’re a heavy hardcore Digger whose days are spent digging countless stories and you break out in a cold sweat if you miss the chance to bury the latest Microsoft story.
I subscribe to the Digg RSS feed since RSS is my hard working, never complaining personal researcher so I was immediately interested to see what Feeddit could do to make my working life easier. So I hit the subscribe button on the main Feeddit page and this is what I found out.
A while back, I highlighted five tools for being a better Digger. But I have subsequently found another free Digg tool which will save you not having to constantly check the site to see how your stories are doing. Just as RSS feeds keep you on top of new website content, Digg Alerter lets you know from the desktop when someone diggs or comments on your submissions.
Digg Alerter pops up a window on your PC desktop when your stories are dugg or commented on. But only the stories that you submitted yourself - it doesn’t count the ones that someone else submitted but you dugg later. You can even tell it to include or exclude stories you submitted but which were subsequently buried.
Regardless of whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny that Digg has has a profound effect on the internet and how bloggers prepare their sites. No longer are bloggers solely concerned about getting the site right for Google - they’re now also trying to make their content “Digg-worthy“.
The site has spawned thousands of loyal users who digg constantly to make sure the stories they like get to the front page. This has led to a small elite group of users forming with too much power which has been criticised by other Diggers. Another group dubbed the “Bury Brigade” has also attracted criticism for their tendencies to automatically bury stories they don’t like.
If you’re a blogger, a journalist or just someone who feels that getting to news first is really important, you need to find sources that can get the news to you as fast as possible. Most people nowadays already use RSS feeds, but there are so many more ways! Let’s take a look at just some of the ways you can get the low-down before everyone else, and get to know cool services along the way.
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Posted by makeuseof guest-writer Mark O’Neill
With all the hype surrounding Del.icio.us and Digg, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that they are other bookmarking sites out there on the Information Super-Highway. If you are a blogger, knowing about the “alternative” bookmarking sites can be very useful for spreading the word about your latest blog posts.
Some of the following services have niche subjects such as news or blogs, while others allow you to bookmark pretty much anything.
Digger? Read further, I guarantee you’ll enjoy at least 4 of them.
(1) Digg - Add Mirror - excellent Greasemonkey addon (Firefox only) that inserts links to DuggMirror, Coral Cache, Google Cache and Archive.org below each story’s Digg-count. So, if the story source is down you still can easily view its mirror page from one of the sources. More Greasemonkey goodies
(2) Smart Digg Button (Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*) - cool firefox extension that places a Digg button in your status bar. Whats makes it ‘Smart’ is the fact that if the web page you are currently viewing has been already submitted to Digg earlier, than it displays the number of Diggs the page has. Otherwise it presents an option to Digg it.
I am not sure how many of you actually use digg, but if you do here is something to Make Use Of. Here, I would to show you how to ensure that your Digg feed brings you only the stories you want and leave out everything else.
I like getting top stories on my feedreader. The problem lies with currently offered feeds, they are not diverse enough and in some cases are too broad. As a result, subscriber ends up with bunch of news which maybe interesting but something s/he has neither intention nor time to read. Today I discovered that using Digg’s search feature you can actually create your own feed and only get stories matching your specified criteria.
Digg.com is one of my favorite sites and so is for 800.000 (and growing) people that visit it on a daily basis. So, what is all the fuss about it?
If you visit traditional news sites regularly, you probably have experienced that a big portion of news you get either about something you have no interest in or just boring. Digg.com solves this problem by providing you only with news which were recommended by other readers. And it turns out to be just the right way
