Digg is Weird and other Internet Things

Digg is popular no doubt. It is a main stage player in what moves and shakes on the web. I don’t use it much. Two things I find weird. When submitting a link to my blog post, it wanted to know if the link was News, Video or Image. I don’t consider my blog to be news. Commentary sure. But not news. And it certainly isn’t video or an image. So I lied and called it news. At least give me an ‘other’. Jeez.
Next, I had to give it a category. My post was on the use of WiFi on a plane. I considered it a tech piece. Under the Technology category there was no choice for Internet or Networking. But Apple and Microsoft showed up. Now that is really strange if you ask me.

They did some sort of duplicate checking to see if the submission was a duplicate of something they already had. Then I had to scan through a dozen other submissions to see if it was a duplicate. I knew it was not a duplicate because I had just written it. The submit button was at the bottom of the page and I had to scroll down to find it. -1 for user unfriendliness.

Next I was asked to take a survey. Cool, I thought, I can really tell them how odd I find their stuff. Wrong again. They wanted to know if I knew about OpenID and if I lived in New York or San Francisco. I guess those are the only ones who count.
Digg is strange to say the least.