Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0
Digg's homepage will display trending stories for user voting
"Activity," in terms of getting a story to trend, doesn't just mean diggs. It also means comments, favorites and shares. Because these trends will be gone in 10 minutes if they don't survive the voting process, Digg has started a Twitter account to announce new trends and give more users a change to vote on them. Stories will only show basic information, to cut down on bias in the voting.
Let's have a little vote of our own: do you think putting Digg trends on the homepage is a good idea?


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They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
