Web 2.0 is in part about giving control over to your users, but I’m not sure anyone was prepared for something quite like this. My hunch is diggers will be quicker to make demands of Kevin and Digg in the future and if they don’t get their way they’ll start throwing tantrums.

In all fairness to Kevin he probably didn’t have a very good day and I don’t envy him his decision.

kevin Rose should stand up for himself and do what he feels is right, Which obviously is not posting the hex as he had it removed so many times, rather than hand all control of digg over to it’s moronic user base which consists of mostly 12 year olds.. Let’s face it, The “digg community” isn’t going to be up in court over this, It will be kevin rose.

I don’t think this was staged at all. I think it was a genuine decisions and the right decision to remove the key and then later it was Kevin Rose surrendering because he was worried what the community would do.

I couldn’t tell you how many Diggers would know what to do with the key, but I suspect it’s actually quite a lot. We’re talking a young, geeky crowd that loves Linux, CDs and, DVDs, and hates the man as represented by the record companies, movies studios, and for most of a day Digg itself.

That’s what I’m wondering Dave. I think for the most part we’ll see things the same as they were before all this started. I expect all the existing social media sites to be doing business as usual and most programmers trying to figure out how to create the next big social media site so they can sell to Yahoo or Google.

However I wonder what the stance will be from traditional and more conservative companies who have been thinking of adding social media features. USA Today has had some recent success and grew subscriptions when it added things like a voting system. I have a feeling other companies may hesitate to do the same now. At the very least social media may become a little less democratic and open than it was a few days ago.

By the way if you’re wondering about web 3.0 come back tomorrow. I’ll be linking out to a post that attempts to define what web 3.0 will be.

I gotta admit that I never saw something like this coming, although with Digg users it doesn’t surprise me. The geek community will always fight back against anything that takes away their contrived sense of entitlement, and this is a classic example of such.

Users shutting the site down is pretty big. This is going to send shock-waves through Wall Street that ripple throughout the “web 2.0″ world. No one predicted liability would be the end of Digg; spam was supposed to do that, in a slower, more lingering fashion. Investors are learning what site owners have known for years – it takes more than a server and some code to be successful. Still, a bunch of angry humans causing a distributed denial of service attack isn’t “the revolution.”

We’ve learned (again) that information is self-replicating. People “dugg” articles with a decryption key they had no idea how to use simply because they found the idea of a secret being leveraged against the public (for profit) repugnant.