some research related to Digg

http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/novelty/novelty.pdf

this is the Novelty and Collective Attention
Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman
Information Dynamics Laboratory
HP Labs
Palo Alto, CA 94304

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4236/4376216/04376224.pdf?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=4376224

Social Information
Processing in News
Aggregation


http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=3&hid=16&sid=d5c3fcbe-5712-4af4-89b0-370612f5f03e%40sessionmgr7

A TOP 'DIGGER' WORRIES ABOUT HIS OWN POWER
TO DRIVE TRAFFIC
- AND THE POTENTIAL REWARDS
DIGG THIS

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/07/digging_deepershould_community.html

Should Community-Edited News Sites Pay Top Editors?

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=5&hid=16&sid=2345c313-4cc1-4f42-87a1-b6a403c62842%40SRCSM2

Hold the front page
Contents
The Diggers and the Levellers
Section: Science and technology
Websites

How to replace the editor with a computer