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Digg's pretty established these days as a way of crowd-sourcing newsgathering. How about applying the same idea to politics ? Lots of s...

As rumours swirl about Google buying Digg, spare a thought for the parlous plight of the open source version, Drigg: I took Drigg this far...

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The perils of being Dugg: At around 4am PST today, the last of the Firefox 3 Beta 1 release candidate builds appeared on our public FTP. Th...

Although the site itself is nothing special, its name is sheer genius. (Via GigaOM .)

There is an incredible - nay, pivotal - event unfolding on Digg. And it all revolves around a number. As the excellent Brownian Emotion e...

Digg occupies such an emblematic place in the Web 2.0 world that it's important to understand what's really going on with this incre...

Like most readers of this blog, I spend so much time leading a Web 2.0 existence, that I am often surprised, as I emerge blinking into the s...

Further proof , if any were needed, that we haven't really got the hang of this water thing: The total amount of water used to produce a...

Dave Sifry has always been one of the do-ers in the world of computing. And as someone who has been at the heart of open source for over a...

Antony Mayfield points to an interesting piece in the Guardian that worries about what it calls the Mmm, Yes, But culture that blogs can ...

I'm such a sucker for clever neologisms : There's a turf war heating up over a strip of web real estate called "Iconistan."...

Here's an interesting twist on the Digg idea: a site that does not merely vote stories up or down, but which rates them in terms of the...

As the Digg lot say, " title says it all" - or nearly: worth noting too that this open access book on open access comes from a pu...

I mention this for the sake of completeness, since I can't imagine many people will be interested in buying one of these high-end softw...

Although my interest in art photography is more passing than passionate, here's an idea that brings together a number of threads in a no...

The news that someone is offering their Digg profile on eBay is hardly a surprise in these days when people will try to sell anything there...

One noticeable effect of blogs is that they can bring out the worst in people. In part, this is the email problem of being unable to judge ...

A few months ago I, ahem, stumbled upon StumbleUpon , which I learn has just joined the growing dotcom 2.0 feeding frenzy with some six-fig...

The real power of open APIs is not so much the particular, obvious things they let you do, but that - as with all open endeavours - they re...