Digg’s dying…

I used to be a huge fan of Digg – it was such a cool site to find unique, interesting news! When I speak in past tense regarding web properties, “I used to be a fan of Digg” means I was using it fairly regularly 2 years ago. As of today, I probably haven’t visited the site in over one year. So when I stumbled across this Digg article explaining that the Digg homepage is controlled by 50 websites, it confirms what everyone sensed was happening.

First we experienced Digg rings that would unify together to drive specific Digg articles to the front page. I didn’t have anything against this as long as it wasn’t a paid Digg ring and the news was appropriate. At the end of the day, Digg was still less “influenced” than the average television station anyways, so who are we to complain?

Check out the below information from Di66.net:

Digg Sources

In my opinion, Digg was valuable for “digging” up the unique content and allowing it to gain exposure based on a good, old fashioned voting system. But I don’t see the point of Digg anymore if it’s simply regurgitating articles from mainsteam news sources. For Digg to save face, I propose they move their current Digg website to everydaynewss.com (lame I know, but hey, at least that domain is available) and drastically rethink their approach for Digg.com before they loose even more momentum.