The internet has evolved into a place where normal people like me can actually have a say in website content. This is especially true on sites such as YouTube, where the web page viewers submit the material to be seen, and on the social recommendation site, Digg.
Digg is a site where everyone in the Digg community can submit their favorite sites, blogs, videos... you name it. If what you submitted is something others want to look at, it can be front page of the website. The point behind the site is to let us, the web page viewers, choose what we like best and let others in on it too.
But there is a newspaper out there who has gotten it all wrong.
According to an article on Poynter Online, the Orlando Sentinel is using these types of sites to endorse their own paper. Instead of using the sites for the purpose of enlightening the community to good sites, they are simply a business benefiting by increasing traffic flow to their site.
Traffic is not the only thing newspapers and businesses benefit from by using these sites. As one blogger explains, businesses in general are taking full advantage of by using the sites as cheap, and sometimes FREE, ways to post things such as job openings!
I'm sure the creators of Digg and other networks alike did not have this in mind when bringing this to the public. Let's keep these community-based popularity sites for the community and not for the news and classifieds!
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