alex brie . net

According to Techcrunch, Digg’s founder just announced new changes to the rating algorithm – namely, it becomes very difficult to promote a story to the homepage with the help of your friends: a diverse, unique group of diggers is needed for this.
So… this means the end of the “Digg circles”(where u ask your friends for their votes), the end of Digg as social network (an attempt tried out by Digg in 2007 – where u could “shout” a story to your Digg friends, asking for votes) and makes it desirable to not have Digg friends at all. I still have no idea how u’d be able to get a story promoted to the front page – perhaps by asking your blog readers to vote for it, but this would only work if u have a large(diverse) number of devoted readers. Other than that… I haven’t got a clue.