Your point about RSS spam made me realize that the new design could be interesting. Right now, I use Google Reader to get content from feeds I personally selec

Your point about RSS spam made me realize that the new design could be interesting. Right now, I use Google Reader to get content from feeds I personally selected. (so not RSS Spam, just publishers I selected myself) If I want to find links that are popular right now, I come on Hacker News (like I would on Digg, but I haven't checked it out in a long time), because the discovery/social aspect of Google Reader does not work for me. I also get links from friends on Facebook. Finally, on Twitter, I follow mostly what Kevin Rose calls "tastemakers" and sometimes get some links from them, amongst the general "what are you doing?" updates. But if I just want to read some stuff, it's all separated. Friends, tastemakers and publishers in the same interface could be a really good mix. Basically, Digg can become the one-stop shop for links and articles: some from my friends, some from tastemakers, my RSS feeds, and I suppose also from the Digg users in general (friends or not). And I get the ability to share each of them in turn from that same interface.