Several of my blog posts have been referenced in Web 2.0 sites like Digg, del.icio.us and reddit. No chart toppers, just a vote here and there. (You’re welcome to change that by using the Share This link below.) What I find amazing when I look at my web stats is the large amount of traffic coming from the “new” section of these sites.
Within minutes of hitting the “new” list there are dozens, sometimes hundreds of visitors coming from that link. This is an interesting variation of bombardment of unsolicited information: actively seeking out unsolicited information. People are presumably refreshing the list of new stories, not knowing at all what will show up next, and then clicking on something that piques their interest.
I would have thought that the greatest benefit of these Web 2.0 sites was their use of The Wisdom of Crowds to point out stories which have been vetted by a large number of people.
If you arrived here via a “new” list, I want to welcome you to this blog and I would really appreciate if you would leave a comment below. I’m genuinely curious to learn how you arrived here, why you clicked on this particular link, and how many other “new” links do you typically go through in a day?
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I never use the ‘new’ link. Ever. Except I just submitted a story myself, and suddenly got curious about it, because I can’t imagine anyone actually reading the ‘new’ page. Catch-22 or something. reddit btw.
Steve
Posted 04 Jul 2007 at 11:10 pm ¶Sounded interesting. I’m usually done with the top page in ten minutes or so, unless theres a story/comments which particularly draw my attention.
Posted 04 Jul 2007 at 11:18 pm ¶Hello Nick!Nice meeting you!
Well i have reached here through your post on Digg,that too in the way u have predicted…refreshing the contents of the Upcoming stories!!
The title of the story didn’t attract me,truly speaking..but luckily enough my eyes catched upon the words under the title..these attracted me.It’s quite unusual that i read the ‘about’,i just go through the titles and digg them if they are cool and go to read the story if they are more interesting.That’s it!
On aday,i spend abt 2 hours on digg alone…i am planning to take my blog to the highest level..so i need some exquisite resources for that..the prime reason that ,made me stick to digg.com.
Think evrything’s clear to u!Bye
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Posted 04 Jul 2007 at 11:19 pm ¶most mornings before work I take a bath and read sites like reddit, digg, bbc in the same way older generations read a newspaper
reddit.com (hot) is normally stale from the previous evening, so reddit.com/new is interesting
its not like spam at all though, maybe about 30% of stories are worth clicking on, and maybe about 5% are classifiable as spam (as in someones shameless commercial interest)
Posted 04 Jul 2007 at 11:42 pm ¶I got here from reddit.com
I read the ‘new’ link routinely - since I scan essentially all the posted headlines on reddit, it is much easier to find them using /new than /hot
As to why: who knows? I can tell you I enjoy Gibson and Stephenson novels, and I sort of thought “Attention Age” might have some significant insight as to an evolution into a post-information age.
Thanks for asking.
Posted 05 Jul 2007 at 12:03 am ¶Post a Comment