Digg Needs A New System To Classify Submissions

It is Twitter Week for me, so I am discussing other new Internet stuff.

Submitting a Link
Digg is a fun way to see what is happening in the world. It is supposed to be the new way to get your News, however it falls into the classic News platform of classifying news. When you submit a link, you to choose the media: news article, video, or picture. Luckily, nobody makes web pages with more than one of these options. All real web masters know pictures stay on picture pages, videos are on video pages, and written word is not disturbed by either videos or pictures relating to the topic (I have made this mistake in the past, but I have learned my lesson and this article will only contain words). [For this article I choose News Article, obviously.]

Title and Description
Next, it asks for the title of the Submission and a description in less than 350 characters. This is easy. [I will title this Digg Needs A New System To Classify Submissions and explain it is about how Digg needs to find a new way to process the next step when submitting a link (not as in choosing the thumbnail, but as in choosing the topic, even though choosing a thumbnail is annoying, too*).]

Choosing a Topic
This is the part I fear when submitting a link. Digg has stuck with an outdated categorizing system. You choose one topic, just like a newspaper. Library card catalogs (a system that was used over 1,000 years ago) have more ways to categorize a book. Let us take the Prop 8 - The Musical as an example. It was submitted under the Offbeat (comedy) topic, a place where it should be. However, to only show up in the Offbeat section is a huge mistake by Digg. This video is more than comedy, as most comedy is more than simply getting a few laughs. The video is political and is about a lifestyle, both which are separate topics on Digg, but which cannot be chosen to label the video.

Multiple Topics, Please?
Is posting links into multiple topics impossible? No, websites have been using tags or labels to categorize individual pages into a multiple sections (just like the Library Card Catalog used author names, book titles, and the subject of the book). Digg why will you not use this technological advancement (once again it has been used for over 1,000 years and is much easier to use now)? This is about open social media, so let us not keep the outdated one link in one topic and move into the future (past and present) with multiple topicss for one link.


*Digg only allows the choice of thumbnail pictures that it pulls from the page. This usually includes pictures of ads or other crap.

[This page was submitted to the Technology (industry news) section, because I do not know where it should go.
Digg it here: Digg Needs A New System To Classify Submissions.
It was also submitted to reddit: reddit needs one as well.]