{"id":1057,"date":"2009-09-25T06:56:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T04:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/25\/digg-and-me-wont-be-friends\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T07:03:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T05:03:15","slug":"digg-and-me-wont-be-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/digg-and-me-wont-be-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Digg and me won&#8217;t be friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to use Digg again today because frankly, with the information overload that is happening in my life (Twitter feed, Google Reader, Facebook Feed etc) what I really need is a way of weeding out the less important storys.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that Digg would (and in my opinion could!) be that tool: the good stories get pushed to the top by group wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>So far so good. But what is happening is, that I&#8217;m realizing that group wisdom doesn&#8217;t really exist: I don&#8217;t want to be reading about a Russian billionaires new photo repellent laser installed on his yacht. And this was in the technology section mind you. Or about the fact that Obama called Kanye a jackass. That is stupid news that is wasting everyones time and takes away from moving society as a whole forward.<\/p>\n<p>So, dear Diggers: let&#8217;s pick ourselves up and make Digg the useful resource that it could be:<br \/>\n&#8211; ignore the BS<br \/>\n&#8211; ignore the press releases from media companies<br \/>\n&#8211; focus on journalists and bloggers who do their homework<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to use Digg again today because frankly, with the information overload that is happening in my life (Twitter feed, Google Reader, Facebook Feed etc) what I really need is a way of weeding out the less important storys. I was hoping that Digg would (and in my opinion could!) be that tool: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}