Shoutwire
Well, it looks like the folks over at digg have a little competition now! A new site, Shoutwire, went live in November. It runs under the same premise as digg, but contains news articles about many topics, not just tech-related ones. Basically, users submit stories, and the community votes them to the front page in the form of “shouts.”
There is a great interview with one of the site’s founders here. I actually found it through the story submitted to digg about Shoutwire. It was quite interesting to watch the thread grow, and the resulting effect over on Shoutwire. I wish I had taken a couple screenshots, because the users at digg basically spammed the article base with horrible accusations and useless junk. Fortunately, the Shoutwire admins got it under control and back to normal.
I’m looking forward to reading news from Shoutwire, and submitting stories to it!
Yes, I wish I took the screenshot too. It was quite pathetic what some Digg users did. Thanks for the attribution.