Kevin Rose is great at explaining Digg’s new recommendation system in the first video below.
Digg Recommendation Engine from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.
Now watch the second video which is more interesting (in my opinion). It’s a conversation with Anton Kast.
I’ve written about Anton before after we met in Atlanta at the Computational Journalism conference. From what I can tell – he is the mad scientist behind Digg. Or, as I once put it “Anton Kast is a rare breed of brilliant.”
I think Kevin Rose would agree – and the respect Kevin obviously has for Anton comes off in this interview.
It’s not as bite-sized as Kevin’s first video – but if you really want to geek out and think about the implications of Digg, especially as it relates to news consumption (something we should all be concerned with) – take the time and listen to how Anton describes Digg as a working system. Listen to his rhetoric and choice of words. I don’t think they are off the top of his head. I think he has zenned out on what Digg represents and how he frames it is important.
Anton Talks About The Digg Recommendation Engine from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.
Thanks for sharing this. The new recommendation systems makes Digg more personalized, seems to narrow user reputation from a system wide to a personal level.