I realize I've probably been around the block too many times to be allowed to make a comment like this: but doesn't it seem like the content on Digg is getting worse and worse? I do. Maybe it's the way pictures and videos have been added to the front page. Maybe it's the trolling comments. Maybe its the trolling posters. Maybe it's the top diggers--or the demographics of the digg population itself. I see another Technorati-style trend--which is going in the wrong direction.
On a twist of the classic Clayton Christensen theory of the innovators dilemma, will Digg's community collectively stagnate (or in this case over-stimulate) Digg's evolution? Will it's very best "customers" lead it down a path that opens up bigger opportunities to competitors rather than for Digg itself? I think that's precisely what's going on right now.
Posted by LCH at September 4, 2007 09:38 AM