Top 10 Topics Missing from Digg

December 2, 2006 :: Categories: Opinion

What kind of information do you look for? How do you find it?

Digg.com provides an excellent way for you to find and help others find interesting content on the Web. Digg is a cool site. But more and more I’m finding myself getting frustrated with the current selection of topics. So I’ve come up with what I think are the Top 10 Topics Missing From Digg.com.

1. Comic Books. This is the biggest missing topic from my perspective because comic books are getting more and more popular every day. This would be my number one tracked topic. This should be a sub-topic under the Entertainment top level Topic.

2. Books. Non-illustrated literature deserves its own topic. I think this would most likely fall as a sub-topic under Entertainment, but it also raises the possibility of adding Art as a new top-level Topic.

3. Music. Another sub-topic needed under entertainment. I would love to have a way of discovering new music.

4. Microsoft. Under the Technology top-level topic Apple and Linux/Unix have their own sub-topics but Microsoft doesn’t. Now I’m as big of an Apple booster as the next zealot, but let’s be real. We shouldn’t be ignoring the elephant in the room just because the elephant is bloated, buggy, and riddled with viruses and spyware. Besides, where else can we gather all of the upcoming articles bashing every part of Vista?

5. Games (non-computer). Where do the articles on chess go?

6. Self-Improvement. We should all be striving to improve ourselves. There is a ton of great information out there for self-improvement. There is also 10 tons of crap out there. Certainly the power of Digg can be harnessed for the continual improvement of the human species.

7. Entrepreneur. A needed sub-topic under the top-level topic World & Business. Many of us on the web are huge fans of entrepreneurship and start-ups.

8. Blogging. A big part of Digg’s readership. The number of bloggers is growing daily which means that the number of people looking for good articles about blogging is growing daily.

9. Digg. Digg users aren’t shy about digging stories about Digg. Let’s make it official. Let’s have a special Digg topic for stories about Digg.

10. Other. Seriously. Every top-level Topic should have the catch all “other” sub-topic. Right now only Sports has an other sub-topic. Let’s give it to the rest of the topics.

So there you have it, ten topics missing from Digg. I know that Digg needs to keep a balance between simplicity and completeness, but I know my Digging experience would be improved by these changes.



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