ChasNote

LeeAnn Prescott at Hitwise compares Digg to the NY Times. The NY Times is still way bigger. But the pretty chart caught my attention because it included Slashdot too: “Digg did receive a greater share of page impressions in June than Times Select, the subscriber-only section of the NY Times, and long ago eclipsed Slashdot.”

The NY Times isn’t just bigger than Digg. It’s also much more mature:

“Digg attracts a different demographic audience than the NY Times. For the four weeks ending 7/1/06, 26% of Digg’s users were in the 18-24 age bracket, while only 9.5% of NY Times users were in that age group. NY Times skews much older, with 34% of its users in the 55+ age group. Only 10% of Digg’s users were over 55 in that time period.”

Wait a minute. Is Prescott dissing Digg, or trumpeting the arrival of this generation’s journal of record?!