Last night, while millions of Americans watched American Idol, a digital revolt was in the works.
Several top contributors to the social news site Digg, including Andrew "MrBabyMan" Sorcini, Muhammad "msaleem" Saleem and Reg "Zaibatsu" Saddler, held an emergency online meeting at around 8:30 PST to discuss their response to a recent change in the algorithm Digg uses to determine which stories appear on the site's front page. The bone of their contention was that the algorithm penalized veteran users such as themselves: It took longer for their submissions to hit the front page than for newbies' submissions.