There was too big of a mix of wanted and unwanted content getting in there. Seems like Digg is very much still a tech site dominated by tech news even in its other categories. Digg began with a huge tech news audience and later opened up to try out larger politics and entertainment and other audiences. But it is still such a magnet for tech audiences that the news they post in other categories is like tech news with a political or entertainment slant. In this case the filter was just weak enough to not be able to distinguish between news about black people and news about black products. So from my 'blacks' keyword based RSS feed, Digg was turning up too many instances of headlines like "iMac in black" and "Cingular offers free battery for BlackJackers" and "Best XP Theme Ever - in Black and Blue." I can't have that. We're going to lose some good headlines but they should still get picked up by other filters. Keep watching.

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