I renounce my Digg membership.

As many of you know I’m a very anti-trend kind of person, I hate conforming to society’s standards and I’ll do everything in my power to stay away from them.

Digg.com is an example of something that was once great but has turned into something I don’t want to be a part of. It started out as a small project ran by the technologically famous Kevin Rose. Now it has become a premium social news community that has exploded with popularity, the content has become polluted with pointless blather and rants rather then educational current events happening in the tech world.

After Kevin Rose terminated his contract with G4 he announced that he would be spending time with his new IPTV show ‘Systm’ and he would also bring ‘thebroken’ back from the dead. The episodes of ‘Systm’ have been few and far between, and even though Kevin has promised over and over that he’s working on my personal favorite IPTV show ‘thebroken’ I have yet to see anything new.

What does all of this have to do with Digg? Digg has turned into Kevin’s flagship project due to its popularity, it has become a business. Because of this virtually no time has been spent with Revision3 and it’s projects. This may not bother most of Kevin’s fans but it does bother me, I’m taking action on my part by switching my primary news source to another site. Where the content matters, not just how much they can gain out of venture capitalists.

I’ve been with digg from the beginning, and I haven’t contributed any articles to the community, just lurked and dug what I thought was important like many others. However unlike most of the others my personal weblog hasn’t become a clone or shrine of Digg’s front page, I even paraphrased and added my own thoughts to every article I posted on my own site. That is something I can be proud of.

Check back to see which site I have decided to call home next.