{"id":103,"date":"2008-07-09T14:49:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/07\/09\/skewing-up-online-news\/"},"modified":"2008-07-09T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T14:49:44","slug":"skewing-up-online-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/07\/09\/skewing-up-online-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Skewing up online news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, before I had a regular set of blogs to read every day, before I used a feed reader, I was a complete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\">Digg<\/a> junkie. Digg is a news site that lets users vote for what stories to promote to the front page or to bury. Now I haven&#8217;t used the site in years, largely because the quality and relevance of the stories that were promoted fell sharply as the site became popular. This recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/07\/09\/gosh-how-many-diggs-does-it-take-to-get-to-the-home-page-anyway\/#comment-2402835\"\">commenter<\/a> (&#8220;Samual Iglesias&#8221;) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\">Tech Crunch<\/a> articulated <strong>remarkably well<\/strong> my own thoughts on the matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think if anything hurts Digg, it\u2019s the abundance of sensationalist headlines that simultaneously lead to spottily fact-checked and poorly written articles (suggesting that people don\u2019t READ these things, just \u201cdigg\u201d the sentiment expressed), and also alienate users of minority demographics with respect to the Digg community. A story that casts Bush in a positive light? A story that criticizes iPhone? A positive story about religion, or the (possibly detrimental) politicization of scientific communities? If Digg expands, it\u2019s into its fixed demographic of h4\u00d70rs and mostly left young male adults, and I\u2019m not sure what conquering this self-informed, heavily participatory group will mean for the future of the internet. Is this revolutionary in the grand sense?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, before I had a regular set of blogs to read every day, before I used a feed reader, I was a complete Digg junkie. Digg is a news site that lets users vote for what stories to promote to the front page or to bury. Now I haven&#8217;t used the site &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/07\/09\/skewing-up-online-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skewing up online news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-internet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}