I checked out the homepages and tour/help screens for Digg, Reddit, Newsvine, and Mixx. I did not register with any of them so that I could keep track of my favorite articles, nor my friend's articles. I noticed that the articles on the homepage for Digg, Reddit, and Mixx seemed to be from less well known sites, and the topics were less serious than the top news stories I'm used to seeing on my Comcast homepage or my local news sites. The articles that were most popular were often very bizarre. Newsvine seemed to have articles from sources I recognized more, and what I might call traditional news sources and perhaps had more reliable reporting.
People often talk about bias in the media, and I guess these tools can help the masses decide for themselves what is newsworthy. Someone still needs to write the original content, but those writers could be from anywhere and write about anything.
Honestly, in my worklife, I don't think there is enough time in my day for me to make Digg useful to my patrons. There are things you could do to create a bibliography of sorts, or to even spend time Digging articles that you think could help the internet world at large by, in effect "voting" for them, but I just don't have that kind of time. I could suggest to patrons to try those sites to find the
"best" articles on the topic of their interest.
As for geocaching, well I had a little fun looking up the topic "geocaching" in these sites. One article in particular that was amusing was from the Rachel Maddow Show. She was asking what people thought would be the best changes President Obama could make. One suggestion was to change daylight savings time to make the day lighter later so the poster could go geocaching longer before the sun sets after work! I love it!
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