{"id":207,"date":"2005-11-17T15:59:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T20:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2005-11-17T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T21:21:05","slug":"digg-may-rival-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Digg may rival Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New site <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/\">Digg.com<\/a> is a news aggregator based on a slightly different paradigm than <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a>. The increasing importance of user interest and contribution as an integral part of news aggregation and dissemination is a very intriguing development.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,69599,00.html\">Wired News<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Despite digging deeper into the space occupied by Slashdot, Rose can credit that site&#8217;s founder, Rob Malda, as the original inspiration for his project. During a lunchtime meeting in preparation for interviewing Malda last year, Rose realized that his ambivalence about adding more social features to Slashdot had highlighted an important gap in the user-organized news market he is now helping to create. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Digg&#8217;s popularity is growing from its ability to prioritize content based on actual user interest rather than editorial assumptions,&#8221; said Rose. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New site Digg.com is a news aggregator based on a slightly different paradigm than Slashdot. The increasing importance of user interest and contribution as an integral part of news aggregation and dissemination is a very intriguing development. From: Wired News &#8220;Despite digging deeper into the space occupied by Slashdot, Rose can credit that site&#8217;s founder, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}