The really interesting thing about the redesign of Digg, is in a way it's kind of the first example, of the possibility of seeing gentrification ported to the i

The really interesting thing about the redesign of Digg, is in a way it's kind of the first example, of the possibility of seeing gentrification ported to the internet. I don't think they will be successful, but its a really interesting concept. One of the hardest parts of any kind of community driven website is to generate the community in the first place. Of course, as the idea of eternal september demonstrates communities deteriorates in quality over time as the community grows to a broader variety of people. Its interesting then, to try to take an existing community that has settled at the lowest common denominator of content and to try to revitalize it. If you take the metaphor further, if you think of artists as the cultivators of culture in a city. And the first step of gentrification is an increase in artists (typically seeking lower rent) who is the cultivators of culture in an internet community. Money doesn't really exist on the internet... well at least the classism associated with it (and rent) so what attracts these culture cultivators back?