Digg getting into local news?

Cory Bergman August 28th, 2008

Digg has always featured local news stories submitted by its users, but they haven’t been organized around location. At a town hall event in Denver, Digg’s founders hinted at new features on the way. Quoting CNET now:

One question suggested “geotagging” for stories to group them into local news stories, something that could make the site legitimately compete with sites like Outside.in and city blog networks like Gothamist. “Yes,” (Kevin) Rose said. “We’ve thought about this as well and it would be really cool if we could start to group different events around you.” (Jay) Adelson added that Digg has “a few projects on the way… think 2009, realistically, for some of this stuff.”