Digg Trends: The First 16 Stories (or Victims)

At first when I heard about Digg Trends I thought that the Digg Users looking at the front page would bury most of the stories.  Digg Trends are stories showing a high amount of activity (diggs, comments, shares etc).  With Digg Trends the Digg users have ten minutes to decide if the story should be on the front page or be buried.  Digg also put some snarkiness into it as well, “Failed! Just like nü metal, this trend failed. It won’t be promoted.” And, “Buried When time’s up, we’ll tell you if everyone agreed with you.”

I think the clock is a bit big but otherwise I like it.  The design is a over sized in general but I think thats the idea, to get the Digg users’ attention.  It’s definitely a shock seeing this for the first time because I can’t remember the last major change to the Digg front page design (besides them taking away the avatars).

Digg Trending - "For Thrillers, Glenn Beck Is Becoming New Oprah"

Here are the first 16 to hit on Digg Trends:

1. “For Thrillers, Glenn Beck Is Becoming New Oprah” Buried
2. Domain Name Shill Bidding Scheme Uncovered At SnapNames” Made popular
3. “Disney Will Make Over Mickey — Why? To Make Us Like Him” Made popular
4. “Tom Cruise Controls Books and Bottles With His Mind “ Buried
5. “Crabs trade sex for protection ” Made popular
6. “Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses” Made popular
7. “Piggy Trouble (INFOGRAPHIC)” Made popular
8. “Darwinian evolutionary theory will help find alien life” Made popular
9. “A Black Hole Engine That Could Power Spaceships [Mad Science” Made popular
10. “False alarm: new Mac OS X 10.6.2 build restores Atom support” Made popular
11. ““Brand New Modern Warfare 2 Trailer Released!“Made popular
12. “More on secret copyright treaty: your kids could go to jail ” Made popular
13. ““Profit “Not Satanic” Barclays Says Buried
14. “Dunce! Judge orders women to hold signs admitting crime” Made popular
15. “Israeli Commandos Seize Hezbollah-Bound Arms Ship” Made popular
16. “Italian court: 23 Americans guilty of kidnapping in CIA case” Buried

Only four were buried of the 16 so far.  I really thought it would have been the other way around, but so far so good.  I hope this trend continues.