Following up on Steve's post about blogs and media diffusion, I wanted to add a few links to some sites that might be of interest along the same lines.

Social News sites like Digg and SlashDot were part of the inspiration behind Daily Kos's move to include diaries and to promote certain diary entries to the main page.

As explained on the Digg site, "Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do."

As with DKos, the number of recommendations of a particular entry allow that entry to become visible on the main page. Thus, though you may not be Matt Drudge, you can still get noticed by thousands (or hundreds of thousands, at DKos) of readers.

Interesting stuff.