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You can’t really blame MarketWatch for trying to integrate Digg on their articles and pages, but you can certainly question their blind-blanketing treatment for the site. If you have been surfing around the MarketWatch, you may see a section at the bottom of articles to entice people to submit them to community web-sharing sites such as Digg, del.icio.us. And why not? Digg has become of one of the web’s most visited site boasting very high traffic. Here’s a screenshot of the link area as captured from one of its pages.

The page from where I captured this was actually the Movers and Shakers page. Though the market does have coverage on tech companies out there. It isn’t very plausible and quite a stretch for readers to submit these articles to technology oriented Digg. Yes, Digg has declared that they would be opening up new categories, but I haven’t heard heard any mention of a financial section. I do know that this is what you will see at Digg.com when you click on the Digg It link.

So far, MarketWatch has displayed a keen eye for new media such as blogs. However, by blindly asking readers to submit to Digg doesn’t really help display MarketWatch’s intelligence and grasp of the entire situation. Perhaps Frank Barnako can give MarketWatch a clue about PFDigg, a digg-like site that is actually looking to build a community for investment / financial article readers? Makes sense to me!

Unexpected MarketWatch Surprise!
I just realized that one of my favourite MarketWatch columnists, Herb Greenberg has started his own MarketWatch blog since June 18th, 2006. I’m really happy for this and has already subscribed to his syndication feed.

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