Information Visualization & Accessbility - Digg 365

As Andre wrote the list of official relevance for the 00´s, I just stumbeled upon a nice new addition to the digg labs website. Some of you might heard about digg, which is more or less a social bookmarking service. Just another Web 2.0 traffic generating service, promoting non-sense as well as important headlines around the web. Based on the diggers votes. It follows the simple principle - dig it, share it. Increment its count. Thats it. I never understood digg at all, but those digg labs prototypes for alternative, interactive frontends instead of the common website, catched my attention to it. It just about news retrieval of importance, for example via the last 100 diggs, which are highlighted in quantity. This is the principle of the digg stack. Another list-based visualization approach is the digg big spy. At least - the quantity of diggs is not a really a good sign for quality. Cartoons or stupid images could also appear in the digg network. Anyway, Digg is more or less a memory of the web. And to sum up in short : The new digg 365 addition is based on a clock-like interaction interface, not a time-related display of the latest diggs as in the both examples mentioned before. The year, month or even a single day is selectable. Also the category of news. The result is a selection of the most popular diggs in the time period. So, all dates since the 1st of january 2005 are accessible and those results are visualized finally with a simple depth of field blurrienes, related to the digg count. Also it scaled in size. So a little 2 1/2D in the final result. Nice approach.

Maybe usable for other non-sense networks like twitter, or our own facebook newsfeed. Or something useable ? Need to elaborate that. Maybe tomorrow or the day after, or ...