Duggout

My wife looks at Digg from time to time, but I never really have much until this "thing." Nevertheless, I understand its social usefulness, and can see how that libraries could make use of this news site. The more librarians post items related to their own libraries or to libraries in general, and the more they "digg" such posts, the more popular and relevant libraries might seem to the Digg community. For Digg is not only appealing to those lovers of "miscellaneous" news items (which items abound on the site), but there are many informative posts regarding technology and so forth. Libraries could definitely have an advertising arena on Digg to show the tech-savvy users of today that their institutions are keeping up with the times, and engaging in many or all the Web 2.0 "things" we are discussing in this program. Specifically, if one couples Digg with Facebook, a library's "face time" on the internet could be greatly increased, and hopefully made more valuable to its community of patrons. Imagine going to the library to use the internet and seeing that same library actively using Digg and Facebook...It might make an impressive impact.