What if the Digg crowd becomes cultural?

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今、Diggはテクノロジーの領域を超えて拡大しており、ゲイクたちはコミュニティで唯一の支配者ではなくなるだろう。科学、世界&ビジネス、ビデオ、エンターテインメント、ゲームといった主要チャンネルの導入に加え、最近ではスポーツも追加され、私たちは徐々に非テクノロジートピックがますます露出を増している様子を目にすることになるだろう。Diggは草の根層を疎外しないよう努めており、テクノロジーチャンネルをデフォルトのトップページにすることでその目標を達成している。

この拡張により、コミュニティはより多くの可能性に直面し、文化的要素が潜在的なシナリオとなる可能性があります。

Diggのユーザーが文化的に変化するならどうなるか? 誰もがフィリピン人同士をDigg友達としてタグ付けするようになる。インド人やシンガポール人と同じように、中国人や韓国人も同様だ。これらの文化集団は、Diggのトップページに影響を与えるのに十分な力を持ちうるだろう。

Tech is a universal topic and whatever country or culture you are from, there is a huge probability that you'll be interested in a similar tech news as everyone else.

However, this may not be true in the field of Sports, Gaming and Entertainment. Ragnarok is huge in the Philippines but not in the US; Efren Bata Reyes is a legend in billiards and Manny Pacquiao is getting a lot of attention lately; Richard Gutierrez and Angel Locsin are hot items in the Entertainment industry as well as the Alyssa Alano "Keys Me" video.

What if we have enough Filipino Diggers that could catapult every story about these people into the Digg frontpage? Same could be true with other personalities in other Asian countries.

When that happens, we could be seeing a huge shift in the western make-up of social communities such as Digg. Brazilians have conquered Orkut and more than a 4th of Friendster users are Filipinos. What could prevent them from taking over Digg?


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Frequently Asked Questions

What new channels did Digg introduce?
Digg introduced major channels like Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment, Gaming, and Sports.
How did Digg avoid alienating its tech-focused users?
Digg kept the Tech channel as the default front page to avoid alienating its grassroots population.
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Cultural groups could form and influence what appears on Digg's front page, especially in non-tech topics.
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Abe Olandres

Abe Olandres

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

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Anthony L · 16 years ago

I have visited your posts before. The more I visit, the more I keep coming back!

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kidlat · 20 years ago
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Miguel · 20 years ago

Like the Pinoy Digg idea?

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jhay · 20 years ago

Yup, for all we know the guys under the hood could and would definitely do something once non-tech and Pinoy stuff would bubble up to the front page. Unless of course the content is really worth being dugg.

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J. Angelo Racoma · 20 years ago

“What if we have enough Filipino Diggers that could catapult every story about these people into the Digg frontpage?”

Come on, Abe. DIGG isn’t really all about raw diggs. :)

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