I knew something was up when I noticed my A le Matters feed turn brown in NetNewsWire (that color mea the feed ha 't been updated in over 60 days), and sho 'nuff, I was right. Today A le Matters launched Macitt, an A le-centric social news site (or: 'digg clone', if you wa a go that route). Logi for A le Matters will also work for Macitt, and all the typical social news features seem to be present. A ta ed panel with a list of categories ador the top right of the page, while accompanying ta list top users, a tag cloud and a submit section. Yea, that's right: a big advantage Macitt has over digg's system is tagging, which other social news sites seem to be adopting more and more often.
Ultimately, it looks like a strong offering that will probably be well-accepted as long as the word gets around, but I'm starting to worry about an overabundance of social news services. After all, a guy can only take so much socializing before he starts mis-tagging headlines and forgets to vote.
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