2. What is Digg? Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, Digg is recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.
3. How it works Readers can view all of the stories that have been submitted by fellow users in the "digg/News/Upcoming" section of the site. Articles are short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories, and provisions for readers to comment on the story. All content and access to the site is free, but registration is compulsory for certain elements, such as promoting stories, submitting stories and commenting on stories. Stories are divided into 6 containers: Technology, Science, World & Business, Sports, Entertainment, Gaming, with sub-categories.
5. Criticism Digg has sometimes come under criticism in for varying reasons: Users may have too much control over content The site has suffered the risk of companies paying for stories submitted to the site Site's operators may exercise too much control over which articles appear on the front page
