Megan Byerly

The rating systems of digg.com and technorati.com are very different. Each post on digg.com is rated based on the number of "diggs" it receives. Technorati Authority is calculated a bit differently. It is based on the sites linking activity. Depending on what is going on in the blogosphere and what topics are being discussed, will make the popularity of certain sites on technorati rise and fall.

After looking at top three posts under entertainment on digg.com which were Conan O'Brien is now on Twitter!, Jon Stewart Sums Up Everything That is Wrong with America, and the top three under entertainment on technorati.com which were Kotaku, Joystiq, and Just Jared, it seems to me that digg.com has a much more effective blog. I liked the top three posts on digg.com much more than I did the top three posts that I found on technorati.com. I found the quality of the posts on digg.com to be much more informative and effective. The rating system on digg.com seems to be much more effective than that of technorati.com, but it also greatly depends on the type of posts you are interested in. People do not all like the same things, so a post that I find interesting make lack diggs because other people find that post boring.