Evil of Digg Overestimated

“Story rankings play havoc with tra­di­tional journ­al­istic tenets” appar­ently. In his Dow Jones MarketWatch ‘Ethics Watch’ column, Thomas Kostigen says that digg-​​​​style news-​​​​voting systems are messing with his mind, con­tinu­ally tempting him to write popular stories.

It emerges, however, that actually it’s not digg that is directly respons­ible, that’s just a trendy hook for the

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