Let Readers Decide What’s Good – Scooping Slashdot

Wired article about Digg.com. Digg allows users to vote on what stories are posted instead of editors. From the article Like any respectable geek, Kevin Rose reads the tech-news site Slashdot religiously. Of course, he also runs the competition. A little over a year ago, when Rose was a 27-year-old host on cable channel G4techTV, he had lunch with Slashdot founder Rob Malda. “So much great stuff can’t make it to your main page,” Rose told Malda. “Wouldn’t it be cool if you let your community vote on what’s interesting?” Malda said that his crew was too busy working on other features. Story continued at Wired.com