{"id":76,"date":"2006-09-12T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2006-09-12T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T03:00:00","slug":"why-digg-is-a-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/why-digg-is-a-puppet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Digg is a Puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple announces a couple little things and instantly- hundreds of stories are submitted to Digg about the anouncements. And then there are stories about those stories, and then thousands of “users” who digg those stories. And then there are those of us who write about how ridiculous that the only news to read on Digg is about another update to iTunes (aren’t they bi-weekly anyway?) or another update to the iPod (new model for every day of the week) or another update about how the new Apple OS is going to be so awesome that we’re going to blog about how awesome it is.<\/p>\n

Point is, no offense Dave<\/a>, if you want to read about the new Apple announcements, go to www.macrumors.com<\/a>, and keep Digg from becoming a never-ending repository of Apple press releases. They’re easy enough to come by as it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple announces a couple little things and instantly- hundreds of stories are submitted to Digg about the anouncements. And then there are stories about those stories, and then thousands of “users” who digg those stories. And then there are those of us who write about how ridiculous that the only news to read on Digg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t