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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Polymeme, the smart person’s Digg

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Digg, along with its scrappy competitor Reddit, is an interesting idea that has one fundamental flaw; it’s driven by idiots. The whole idea behind Digg is that the users vote on what news is important. That’s fine in theory, but in practice you get a lot of dumb links to dumb things, such as the endless Ron Paul links that festooned Digg’s front page months ago, despite Paul not having a chance in hell of securing the Republican nomination.

Polymeme aims to avoid that trap. The service tracks buzz, but shapes the result into something somewhat more intellectually pleasing than Digg. I’m intrigued, and I’ll keep checking it out for now.

Posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Categories: internet, new media, web.
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Warren Frey is a journalist, freelance writer, podcaster, video producer, and all-around media consultant currently based in Vancouver, Canada. His written work has appeared in such publications as Metro Vancouver, the Westender, Mac | Life and the Japan Times.

2 Responses to “ Polymeme, the smart person’s Digg ”

John says:

Nice find! “driven by idiots” – ha! Pretty much the main reason I avoid Digg.

August 5th, 2008 at 9:10 am

John Davis says:

YoW! You got that right Warren, although I do find cool code snippets on Reddit occasionally! jd

August 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm

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