Various sites have commented on the results of a new Hitwise survey (here is the TechCrunch version) which shows that that Flickr is only sixth among the top 10 photo sharing sites.

I’m among those somewhat surprised. Apparently it's the MySpace traffic that accounts for the Photobucket lead. It just goes to show how one's innate perception about things may not be reflected in reality.

TechCrunch has some interesting but rather less surprising facts on Digg. It's launching a very interesting looking Version 3 on Monday has long since surpassed Slashdot (a site I continue to be very fond of and still gravitate to more than Digg. Is this me responding to paternalism rather than democracy? Another day…) and is challenging the New York Times.

I'm not quite sure I'd go with the view of Digg as 'the newspaper of the web' though as TechCrunch has it. Seems the wrong metaphor somehow. How about the Junior Common Room of the web?