Thing 16 - Digg

I watched the video KN recommended, and then I watched 2 other videos - one from MSNBC interviewing 2 guys that host Diggnation, and then another one on Forbes.com with Digg CEO, Jay Adelson. The more I work through "the things," the more I realize how completely out of the technology loop I am! The 3rd video I watched, Putting a Price on Digg, was uploaded on November 22nd, 2006. They claim (at that time) 1 1/2 million users a day! Jay Adelson mentioned the term the wisdom of the crowd several times during the interview. I can go with the consensus of the crowd, but maybe not with the wisdom of the crowd. I'm a great believer in the William Penn quote, "Right is right even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it." Digg is an interesting concept. I like that there are categories within Digg (Technology, Science, World and Business, etc.). This is definitely one of the Web 2.0 tools/applications that bears out what I read on Thing 2 - that we are the Web and we are teaching the machine. I can see the appeal of feeling like individuals have the power to determine what is important. I dig it!