new ways of newsing

This post is a bit dry, but I am rushed...

Reddit and Digg are two different ways of looking at getting news updates. I've been reading slashdot for a while (note the low user number of 66162), but I'm always on the lookout for other means of getting "cool" stories from the internets to read during my limited available browsing time.

Digg:
"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."

Reddit:
"A source for what's new and popular on the web -- customized for you. We want to democratize the traditional model by giving editorial control to the people who use the site, not those who run it. All of the content on reddit is from users who are rewarded for good submissions (and punished for bad ones) by their peers. You decide what appears on your front page and which submissions rise to fame or fall into obscurity."

Sorry for the PR dump from their sites. :-/ I'm pretty sure that Reddit is a product of Paul Graham's Y-Combinator, but I wasn't able to (quickly) determine if that was also true for Digg.