Digg needs some art & culture 6 March 2007
Posted by pcNielsen in Advertising, Art, Modern culture.trackback
WordPress recently added the ability to put a Digg button in your posts. I like Digg but don’t use it that much.
Digg is missing some categories. Anything remotely relating to visual art, for instance. Sure, the obligatory miscellaneous category is there, called “Offbeat.” Most stories I submit end up in this category. Other bloggers, such as TheMuLife.com and JeffKee.com also find the Digg categories sorely lacking — although neither of these mention the arts. ThinkingPictures, however, is also asking “Where’s the art in Digg 3.0?”
Herein lies my own suggestion:
The Arts & Crafts
- Architecture
- Graphic design
- Fabric arts
- Film
- Furniture design
- Industrial design
- Music
- Painting
- Photography
- Sculpture
- Other visual arts
You get the idea.
Digg.com, from what I know, started off as a tech-oriented site, but they could broaden their categories a lot more than what they have now.
I agree with the Arts section – why did I not think of that specifically?
Cheers.
I completely agree, Digg is a great resource but would be much more usable with an arts category, for posting and reading.
Hey, I agree too!
Agree! It would also help bring more women to the site, I think. Please see this page: http://community.livejournal.com/feminist/2910475.html