Thing Twelve!

12. Digg and other social media sites.

With the Olympics beginning in a few days, I had fun looking at the Olympic logos from 1896 to 2012 on Digg. My mother talked about the 1936 Berlin Olympics because she was excited to see hero Jesse Owens at the University of Minnesota afterwards. I remembered the 1984 Los Angeles logo because my sister and her husband attended and gave me a mug.

I am not too thrilled about Reddit where the current top listing is on Paris Hilton's comments on a John McCain ad. With the coverage of such topics in other media, I don't plan to spend much time on Reddit to rank news stories that I am not concerned about . . . Newsvine had the same top story tonight, but I like the site's organization better. At Mixx, I did not even see any listings for Paris Hilton, but enjoyed an article on the 7 Myths of Crowd Psychology. Newsvine and Mixx have local news listings, but there was nothing exciting for my zip code . . .

StumbleUpon was new to me, and fun to browse. I have had accounts with the New York Times and Washington Post for several years, so am familiar with their sharing features and most popular articles. Even though I am happy to learn of the other sites mentioned in Thing Twelve, I will probably continue to use the newspaper sites more. I did add a link for Newsvine to the sidebar for Thing Twelve so will try to check often to be more familiar with the site.