Digg and story duplication…

As I’m sure you all can see, I’m becoming a regular user of Digg. Not to find new stories but to share stories I read about and to post them to my blog. I know I could simply link and blog news articles to my blog using the standard ‘BlogThis!‘ feature, but I feel with Digg, I can share with a larger audience. One of the features I like about Digg is that I can then also see who else is reading and sharing the same stories. This all said anytime you post a story, it first checks if anyone else has posted the same story and if not… it lets you post it and then it asks you to verify that it is not a duplicate. Now here is my ‘issue’ do you say it is ‘original’ since the particular story is not yet posted or do you say it is duplicate since a very similar story is already posted. Better yet, if you know a story was provided by the AP/BBC/Reuters/etc… but you read it on your local post or source, is it original or duplicate…. I guess this is one feature I’d like to see Digg incorporate… story ‘grouping’. Basically while a story may be ‘original’ since the particular link has yet to be posted but if it is the basically the same as another story, group them. I see this having two affects… 1: users will be able to find others that have dugg similar stories (or the same under a different name) and 2: help users find other news/information sources based on those that are ‘grouped’ to story they just read. Now this all said, I don’t think that Digg should combine Digg scores, I think the count at a particular source is valuable information, I just want to see other stories in my ‘group’.

Newman wins thrilling Daytona 500

Another thriller, another heartbreak at the Daytona 500. The 50th running was as great as always. Stewart will get his eventually… But that all said, it was a great race, and those Toyotas.. well I think we’ll be seeing a lot of them this year in the winner circle. But yesterday was for Newman and Penske. Newman’s win gave Roger Penske (a standard in the name of racing) his first Restrictor Plate win and his first Daytona 500 win.

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