Dying social network Digg, designed as a site to share news on the internet and allow people to judge its importance to decide which become today's headlines on the site's homepage, was bought over by a new team roughly two months ago for a trivial amount of money. Now the new Digg team have explained their plans for revamping the social network to make it relevant once again, in a blog post at rethinkdigg.com detailing discussions over the last six weeks.

One of the major sticking points in the new rethink is to refocus the site around getting to the content people want in the simplest ways possible, dropping anything that isn't constructive to that process. Gizmodo published an article today about one such move, ditching the much-loathed Diggbar; but other plans include dropping Newsrooms; and renaming “Newswire” back to its original name, Upcoming.

Perhaps most telling of all though is the new Digg team's assessment as to the role of Digg in the modern internet. Rather than encouraging people to stay on Digg and ignoring every network, the new Digg is being designed to get you to the content you want to read quickly, in the belief that the easier it is to discover things using the network, the more likely you'll come again to find new things (now where have we heard that before…?); as well as to embrace the networks people have already to judge the relevance of articles. While you can still "Digg" articles on the site itself to increase their score, Digg scores will now also consider how often an article has been shared on Facebook and Twitter to determine an article's overall importance, thereby highlighting the articles most grabbing of people's attention whatever network they use.

An early mock-up of the new Digg scoring system. Although this article only has 54 Diggs, it scores 212 due to the many mentions of it on Twitter and Facebook. Clicking the overall score shows a breakdown.

(Image Credit: RethinkDigg)

Also of note is that the early launch of the new Digg will lack a comment system, to give the developers time to consider how to "do it right". As posted on RethinkDigg:

At launch, v1 will not include a commenting system. When Digg was founded in 2004, it was one of the only places on the web to have a conversation with like-minded people. Today, conversations happen everywhere, and the problem that Digg started to solve in 2004 now has no shortage of solutions. We knew that if we were going to support commenting at launch, we had to do it right, and we knew that we couldn’t do it right in six weeks. In the coming weeks we will conduct a few experiments in commenting that will inform more permanent features.

Time will tell if the rethink of Digg by its new team will help make it relevant to the modern world and keep it away from Death's Door. What are your views on its chances?

Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham's finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

Yeah this is a toughy of a review…  Now I had been looking forward to this, BUT in the advent of Phase one of the Avengers, my love for the Dark Knight Trilogy has wained and Rises didn't prove my waining interest to be false unfortunately

Again, Spoilers ahead, so if you haven't watched it yet, don't read on, BUT pretty much everyone already knows this is the final Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale Batman film before the JLA reboot by Warner and THAT is where my interest and love of this trilogy takes the major hit in how much I SHOULD have loved it…

Now, from the outset, this is EIGHT YEARS after the last film!  I know Batman took the fall to make Harvey Dent a martyr, but 8 years?  Far too long in the canon for it to have carried on and later in the film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character Blake, is asked by another boy at the orphanage if he thinks Batman will return, but after 8 years, the lad was obviously too young to remember Batman's scuffle with the Joker or Dent, let alone even being born when Bruce Wayne first became Batman anyway…  So first nit pick down, more to come

Secondly, Bruce Wayne has MANY injuries from being Batman, BUT after his 8 years of hiding away in teh newly rebuilt Wayne Manor, why would someone that driven let himself become a cripple, even if he was hiding from the world?

Now the redeeming feature of this film is, IMHO, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman (cos no one remembers Halle berry's Catwoman film, that never happened remember) and could, on her own merit grab a follow up film all of her own

Now I was a HUGE fan of Batman: Knightfall, and even more so the Audioplay version that the BBC did not long after the release in comic form and I especially liked the breaking of the Batmans back by Bane giving a great nod to the first fight between Bane and Batman in the film, so we know Knightfall had a great influence in the film and this especially helped build the character of Bane, played brilliantly by Tom Hardy, but I have to still agree with criticisms from the first trailers, the mask did NOT help the character, at times still being difficult to understand and others sounding disconnected from the narative, another downer on a great performance unfortunately

Now, the highlight performances, as usual in teh Dark Knight trilogy came fromt eh supporting cast of Gary Oldman as Commisionar Gordon, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox and of course the highlight of all three films, Michael Caine as Alfred, the heart AND soul of the Batman character

The one character that didn't quite work was Marion Cotillard as Miranda/Talia Al Ghul, BUT it gave us a brief cameo by Liam Neeson taunting Bruce Wayne as Ra's Al Ghul during his prison stay and rehabilitation before he climbed out of the prison

So yeah, as a stand alone film, it failed to deliver the quality of those that came before and even as an ending to the trilogy it didn't quite stand up, BUT watched all together, would work better, so definetly refresh your memory by watching the others first

So, my score?  difficult, i want to give it 5 out of 10 as I felt dissapointed, BUT it was still a better film over all than Promtheus and it only failed for me because I am so invested int eh character and the history of the character and holding that against it isn't fair (plus it didn't push 3D, it was a straight 2D film, so plus points for that too)

8 out of 10

~Lonesamurai

This week on the Sunday Night Showcase –

We will be joined in IRC and on air by

Capital Vibe are a 4-piece Birmingham Based Blues, Rock, Funk and Soul band. They play a diverse and exciting new music spanning all different avenues of Rock and Blues whilst adding the core groove aspects of Funk and Soul music. Capital Vibe deliver a energetic and engaging performance every time, which can only be done with a group of people with this level of dedication to the music.

The band will be joining us in IRC and live on air this evening, answering you questions from IRC, Facebook and twitter

Make sure to join us aswell to get some requests in! The Live request system both on the website and in IRC @ irc.sanitarium.fm port:6667 #sanitarium.fm for live show discussion

Also, keep an eye on this thread for future youtube videos and info about the band and for any ramblings from the band themselves

Yes indeed, Sunday Night Showcase LIVE!!! with your host, LoneSamurai!

Sunday 29th July, 9pm til Midnight GMT, 4pm til 7pm EST.

See you there

~Lonesamurai

This week on the Sunday Night Showcase –

We will be joined in IRC and on air by

Original hard rock band, A Course Of Action, is from western North Carolina. They combine solid rock grooves with melodic guitar and vocals…and they have a great look to woo the ladies.

The band will be joining us in IRC and live on air this evening, answering you questions from IRC, Facebook and twitter

Make sure to join us aswell to get some requests in! The Live request system both on the website and in IRC @ irc.sanitarium.fm port:6667 #sanitarium.fm for live show discussion

Also, keep an eye on this thread for future youtube videos and info about the band and for any ramblings from the band themselves

Yes indeed, Sunday Night Showcase LIVE!!! with your host, LoneSamurai!

Sunday 22nd July, 9pm til Midnight GMT, 4pm til 7pm EST.

See you there

~Lonesamurai

Disney unveils an expansive 10-disc Blu-ray collection.

Marvel fans have another reason to rejoice, and another reason to save up their cash. MTV has revealed the first official pictures of the positively stunning Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One Blu-ray collection.

Take a look:

This awesome, immersive 10-disc set will feature all six films, including Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man 1 and 2, The Incredible Hulk and, of course, Marvel's The Avengers. This set will also include Blu-ray 3D versions of Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, as well as all previously available bonus features.

According to Disney's press release, "now that you possess the highest level of security clearance, you have been granted access to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s most confidential files, including a top-secret bonus disc filled never before seen, classified information. Also featuring exquisitely detailed art, prop reproductions and artifacts from the motion pictures, the must-own Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One Collection will verify your status as the world’s greatest authority on the Marvel Super Hero mythos!" Can't wait to see what's on that disc!

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One will arrive on Blu-ray September 25, 2012, the same day as The Avengers. Suggested retail for this set is $219.00. Amazon has the set available to pre-order for $152.99.

Be on the lookout for a review of this amazing set in September.