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I had to go pickup a suit for a friends wedding yesterday and upon exiting the multi-storey car park I was confronted with a mad woman on one of those electrified wheelchairs / buggy / deathtrap. She seemed to have no appreciation that she was A) in the middle of a very busy junction B) swerving wildly along the road C) about to get run over by me. This got me thinking to the current state of one or two of the most popular web services and in fact my A,B,C works as a very good analogy for them (given that it may not be me that runs them over.)

The latest round of changes to DIGG seems to have caused mixed reactions and in general it seems to be a trend towards iterative changes that seem to annoy the very users that give the service so much support. To me it is a very dangerous game to perform what seem like knee jerk reactions to the rest of the internet, (i.e. new comment systems, video integration, I could go on..) without thinking about what your core service is all about. But it seems Kevin Rose now has his eyes set upon the social networks when perhaps he should be thinking about what the next generation of voting/submission sites is going to look like.

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