Digg aims to raise its profile

October 1, 2008 By Scott Duke Harris

YouTube made a splash last fall when CNN engaged the video-sharing Web site to show mainstream Americans posing questions to candidates in the presidential primaries. Now the "social news" site Digg is bidding to enter the national psyche as well.

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