Heard of TrafficJam? From the folks that created Blogrush, TrafficJam is believed to destroy Digg! Why? Because TJ uses valid data to determine what's makes the frontpage (or any part of the site for that matter)… At Digg, the same people always make it to the front page… There's not much logic behind Digg. It's all arbitrary. The idea is to give the user the ability to read all the best blogs in a matter of minutes. They take the data from BlogRush and deploy the best of the best posts, all based on the site's traffic, length of visit, etc.
That leads me to another thought. More often than not, a post gets more traffic when people Digg it, stumble it, mixx it, or whatever. So, in an indirect way, the data collected at TrafficJam is loosely based on how the post flows through the social media networks. See, new posts don't necessarily get organic traffic right away, which means that it HAS to be the social presence that drives the immediate traffic, which in return determines what will be deployed on TJ. So, based on that reasoning, we can assume that we'll see similar posts on TrafficJam that we see on Digg, which completely contradicts the prior paragraph. Any thoughts on this? 
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Blogrush is dying and trafficjam is dead upon arrival. The problem is that nobody clicks on the blogrush widget. Until Blogrush can improve there CTR, Blogrush will continue its slow, steady decline. Just look at Blogrush’s Alexa stats. Pretty Depressing.
The idea behind blogrush is cool and refreshing, but the bottom line is that their widget is ugly and depressing.
I don’t like this site as much as digg because it is focused on blogs, some of the most interesting things i’ve found on digg are pictures and other media.
good point…