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Digg's Trump And Hillary Channels

This is an interesting experiment. Digg has just launched dedicated channels for streaming information on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The channels are a mix of algorithmic curation by computers and Digg editors and are sort of like a running list of what the web is talking about concerning the two party candidates for President at any given moment. As an actual information source, it's probably very diluted, but as a stream of consciousness feed, it is quite amazing.

Digg has done its best to make sure that both feeds are populated by information from all political sides (left, right, and moderate) and include Twitter reactions from tweets that have garnered over 1000 retweets.

You can have a look at the feeds here:

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