Forgive us for getting all hyper-meta-meta on you this morning, but one of our favorite sites was profiled in Wired News this morning.
Robert filed two reports (here and here) today about Digg.com and its founder, Kevin Rose. Rose built the site initially because he was a fan of the Slashdot-style weblog journalism that all of the tech news sites have adopted. However, by adding various social networking components (user profiles with photos, weighted voting, vidcasts), Digg has found itself actually leading the pack.
Users can pick the stories they like the best by "digging" them, which works sort of like voting. Ultimately, the users, and not the site's editors, decide which stories get the most exposure and which topics get placed in the slots on the front door.
It's tough to talk about sites like Digg.com and del.icio.us without mentioning that soon-to-be-dirty phrase Web 2.0. Expect to see more Webmonkey coverage of Web 2.0 frameworks and social software trends in the near future. Until then, digg it.
