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Today, I continue our new series on my favorite websites for Information Technology Professionals. I either read these daily or subscribe to them via my RSS reader.

Today, I wish to feature Digg.com’s technology site.  It is nicely divided into categories spanning everything from Apple to Technology news.  If you are unfamiliar with Digg, it is unique because it does not produce content, but instead its readers nominate stories to appear there.  The more votes, also known as “diggs”, that a story gets, the higher it climbs on the home page and the longer that it lasts.  If a story gets more than a thousand diggs then it gets special notice and a “sticky” position on the “best of” right side of the page. 

Suffice it to say, that if you make it to the site, you are worthy of notice.  If you make it to the “best of” list for the day, week, or month, the story has value.  What is really great here is that the rankings are category specific.  So if they have a category that you are interested in, such as ‘LINUX’, then you are sure to be excited by the content you find there because others with the same theme thought so.  You can also sign up there to receive tweets or SMS text messages when stories there, meeting your personal criteria, make it to the “best of” level.  I scan their top 3 pages for certain categories every day and am never dissatisfied by what I find.  I like their technology, Apple, Linux, and industry pages for sure.  Many others are also interesting reads.

I read this site daily, and I recommend it to you. While you cannot possibly keep up with them, nor be intimately interested in all of their content, the reading will be educational. I learn something new every day from there and cannot even measure the number of times that I have used their links towards my professional development or job performance. If you keep up with them, you will keep up with tech. I hope that you enjoy it.

What do you think about this topic?  Do you agree or disagree with me? Do you have a recommended website for next week? Please share your ideas below.

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for December 11, 2009  by Scott Coughlin.

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Special thanks to the team at Digg.  I really appreciate your work at putting out such a terrific resource for the Information Technology Professional community.

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