Dear my Digg friends,

I'm turning over a new leaf on Digg. It's a leaf I should have turned over a long time ago; I've been like the James Spader of Digg.

I currently have 98 Digg friends, and if you looked at my profile a little while ago that number looked a lot higher, which was of no benefit to me.

As many a close Digg confidant has told me, it's better to have a select group of mutual friends who consistently digg your content, rather then a gaggle of friends (mostly non-mutual) who don't, and offer you nothing.

Reflects life in general, but that's another conversation for another time.

Moving forward, I'm aspiring to the former - see the updated note on my profile (or I'll just tell you, it reads: now practicing the ancient art of digging my mutuals).

So if you're active on Digg - and by the way, I still intend to be very active, no question - and you want to be mutual friends, add me.

And for those of you who aren't on Digg, but aspire to, there's a free lesson - maybe now it won't take you a year to figure out how to do it right, like me.

MH

Mike Hayes on Digg

Mashable predicted story-streaming would be one of the 10 News Media Content Trends to Watch in 2010, and over the past week - under far less than ideal circumstances - we have seen a credible example of this - haitiquake.posterous.com.

The good people at Voice Project and Oxfam International, a non-governmental agency fighting poverty, started this Posterous right after the earthquake hit to provide the, as their tagline denotes, "Latest updates from those responding to the Haiti quake."

Thus far, Haiti Quake Updates have run the gamet, providing video, tweets, audio clips, articles from outlets like Paidcontent.org and The Guardian, and a healthy dose of content across all medians from Oxfam  - no surprise since Louis Belanger, Humanitarian Media Officer with Oxfam, appears to be the one steering the ship with the site. Belanger is among the 200 Oxfam staffers on the ground in Haiti at this time. He's also been phlogging via Haiti, and has posted four phonecasts thus far on his own Posterous.

Voice Project's mission according to their Twitter profile is "to connect bloggers with important political events and gives them unprecedented access to policymakers and world leaders." To provide a quick barometer of this, so far with Haiti Quake Updates, the linking has been pervasive within and outside the Posterous community (hit the links to see the search results).

Go here to subscribe to Haiti Quake Updates on Posterous. Send me any other quality examples of story-streams via email or Twitter.

(via @stevekrak)