{"id":551841,"date":"2007-03-23T06:49:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T06:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551841-now-digg-this.html"},"modified":"2007-03-23T06:49:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T06:49:39","slug":"now-digg-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551841-now-digg-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Now digg this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Some stories have become so popular so quickly that demand has degraded and even crashed Web servers operated by news publishers and bloggers. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Social bookmarking and social news sites \u2014 three of the more popular ones are del.icio.us, digg and reddit \u2014 are democratising the process of news distribution. It is consumers, not editors, who are deciding what constitutes the \u201cfront page\u201d. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Web users are unearthing news items that would never make it onto the front page of newspapers or become the lead item on television news, but which quickly become the most-read stories on social news sites. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">At lunchtime on Monday this week, for instance, the most popular item of the previous 24 hours on digg was a video clip from CNN of eccentric US businessman Donald Trump saying that George W Bush is \u201cprobably the worst president in the history of the US\u201d. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Content can either be accessed via the Web (sites such as digg and reddit link to the original content source) or accessed at any time, on any device, using Web feeds delivered by way of a system called Really Simple Syndication. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Local social news sites are also starting to appear, though they are still in their infancy. Muti ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muti.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.muti.co.za<\/a> ) has content of interest to Africans or those interested in Africa.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=70038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comments<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social bookmarking, a way of sharing Internet bookmarks on the Web, is turning the news business on its head as consumers worldwide dig up and share news articles, opinions and other items of interest with each other and vote on which items they like and dislike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}