• The Wall Street Journal Gets Cozy With Digg

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    Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

    There’s a new sheriff in town at the venerable Wall Street Journal, and they certainly seem willing to try new things.

    Like the New York Times
    , the WSJ is now adding Digg buttons to articles. And clicks from Digg get the added benefit of bypassing the paywall.

    Links are supposedly being added now, although I can’t find any articles that include the digg button yet.

    The WSJ also has links from blog search/discovery engine Sphere on their site, which creates a pop up window with related content.

    Update
    – good screen shot here.

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