Digg is my new Slashdot

I was talking with Alex yesterday about how much I love Digg. If you’re a regular Slashdot reader, I highly suggest you make the switch. Slashdot hasn’t innovated on their platform in far too long and Digg really hits that sweet spot of a) letting the users decide what’s is shown on the main page and b) not having to deal with the arrogant Slashdot editors. I can only hear about how somebody stole CmdrTaco’s nick in some MMORPG so many times.

One of the really fascinating (and quite addictive) features of Digg is the Digg Spy. Its an AJAX application that shows you in real time the “diggs” on stories. Just nuts. Think RSS-feeds meets Planet Planet but in real-time and user-created. Wow.