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Too bad you have to wade through all the crap that goes up on Digg to get to the good stuff like this.
Posted by: Justin Thorp | Wednesday, November 08, 2006 at 11:52 PM
Actually, Steve, it looks like Comedy Central broke the story, believe it or not: here it is.
Posted by: Mathew Ingram | Thursday, November 09, 2006 at 12:29 AM
He put the same article on Netscape with the title "Why Netscape is Better Than Google News"
What I am trying to figure out is which is better digg or netscape. Comaparing google news to netscape or digg is comparing apples to oranges. The AP, or Reuters probably reported it first on the entire net anyway.
Posted by: Shane | Thursday, November 09, 2006 at 09:12 AM
And the AP beat them both. Social media is great, but without a mainstream media to feed off of, it's value for things like national news drops to about two bucks.
Posted by: greg | Thursday, November 09, 2006 at 09:24 AM
Yes, indeed digg actually brings you a lot of traffic, however the quality of the link and content is very important.
Posted by: dedicated hosting | Thursday, November 09, 2006 at 10:27 AM