“There’s nothing new to that fact that people play a direct role in how we discover what may interest us on the Web. It goes back to Yahoo!’s earliest days. Back to links.net, back to the NCSA What’s New page. It goes to the heart of what blogging is all about.
People have been way too hung up on Digg’s voting algorithms and forget that what makes Digg, Digg is its community of participants. ”
–Karl Martino, paradox 1X, writing about human editors, search, and the social web.