Reddit – Democratizing Online Content
How the 4th most visited website in the United States is managing its self-regulating crowdsourced platform
Reddit: Managing the “Front Page of the Internet”
A deep dive into the most engaged online community in the world.
Digg: Failures and Learnings
A democratic crowd-source-enabled news aggregator once valued at $100+ million goes bust. Why?
The Demise of Digg: How an Online Giant Lost Control of the Digital Crowd
Digg's inability to prevent fraudulent voting allowed power users to take control of the site's content and undermined its mission to produce democratized news.
Reddit: A bastion of free speech
“The front page of the internet” has to strike the balance between promoting free speech and running a for-profit platform that upholds certain moral standards
Reddit: When bigger isn’t necessarily better
Reddit has dominated as the result of strong network effects, which also may predict its downfall