Mantic Media

One of the biggest weaknesses of Digg is the slowness of the promotion process. Huge news often takes many hours to reach the homepage, at which point it’s already old news. For a supposed news site this is pretty lame, but I have an idea for how it can be fixed.

Create a category called “Breaking” focused only on recent news and tweak the algo to make it much more time sensitive than the other cats. Maybe restrict submissions to only allow trusted MSM outlets and blogs be submitted. Heavily moderate it so that deserving, authentic stories are promoted to the homepage instantly.

Would this really be that hard to do? I don’t think so, and it could save Digg’s legitimacy as a place to go for timely news.