Digg has launched a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends. The feature will promote "certain highly active stories" as they are trending, not unlike Twitter's trending topics.
The feature could give stories a better chance of getting more exposure when they otherwise wouldn't necessarily made it to the front page. Digg's Kurt Wilms Twitter account to tweet out when a new Digg Trend is up for voting on the homepage.
Digg has often been criticized for being too clique-ish, meaning it has been hard to get on the home page without having the right friends, although Digg has taken steps to make the site better for more people in the past. This should help that as well.
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