Someone passed along to me a link to a new Digg tool called "Diggwatcher". It enables you to monitor a particular story and the page refreshes itself every 60 seconds to show the current number of diggs for that story as well as the number of comments people have left. It's a web-based tool so there's no need to download anything.

It was the comments that really put me off Digg. I've tried to get into the "Digg atmosphere" and be part of the Web 2.0 group but I very quickly realised that the people who rate and comment on Digg are immature idiots who are ready to flame anyone whom they deem to be not worthy of being there. Some of them are also rather cruel - someone once posted a story on the site about a dead body being found in an apartment and all the commenters on Digg could do was make very distasteful and unsensitive remarks. When I angrily told them that they were being rather tactless, I was hounded off the site.

I still occasionally check the site to see if I can find any good weblinks but on the whole I tend to avoid the place. Nevertheless, Digg Watcher is a neat looking tool and worth a mention.