Digg It

TrendCentral: Just about a year ago, we wrote about the Internet trend of tagging. Since then, the practice has really taken off with everyone from bloggers to dating sites such as www.consumating.com using tags to make searching and identification easier for users. The latest web trend that tech insiders are buzzing about is digging. The name comes from www.digg.com, a site composed of links to technology news articles. What makes this site unique, however, is that its readers are also the editors. Users submit articles for review and also decide which articles go on the homepage by marking them “digg it”, which is essentially giving it the thumbs up. The articles with the most “diggs” go to the top of the page. While Digg.com has the copyright on the term “digg”, other forward-thinking sites such as video sharing site Vimeo are also implementing the “dig” feature.
Digging could become a popular alternative to starred or numbered rating systems. Not only is it simple, positive and lacking ambiguity, but it also gives control to the users.
Digging [TrendCentral]