DIGG’s Jay Adelson has strongly implied that they are _not_ about to be sold and called the rumors of a Google and Microsoft bidding war completely unfounded.
Also, we hear from Digg Co-founder Owen Byrne that the rumors appear to be false though he noted at his blog that he would not necessarily be in the loop with a sale decision.
Owen even suggested that the rumor of the sale brings into question the credibility of TechCrunch, though I’m guessing TechCrunch had a “good” lead on this story but not necessarily an accurate one. More»

Labels: digg, digg.com, Microsoft

Here is an instance of a news item that couldn’t have been made public if not for new media:
This picture is not about Fox or Digg but shows the difference between news sources that are centralized like Fox or old media and others that are decentralized - meaning that they are distributed over the web allowing any person to be a source. Let me first point out the difference between these two. Old media is newspapers or news channels which act as a central source of news to a large More»

Labels: Blogs, digg, Youtube