{"id":319,"date":"2009-02-27T01:30:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T05:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2012-12-17T22:57:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T02:57:29","slug":"my-information-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/my-information-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"My Information Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I heard that the most informed people were those who regularly watch the evening news &#8211; local and national. This came as a surprise to me, a guy thoroughly overwhelmed by hundreds of minute-by-minute RSS feed updates. I thought that I was surely the most up-to-date fellow around. But, I&#8217;ve never been able to get a solid grasp of &#8220;real&#8221; world news from online sources. Either I get overwhelmed by the amount of information or I get distracted by geek news and pictures.<\/p>\n<p>So, two years after first learning that despite being highly tech savvy I was among the less-informed, I am going to undertake an experiment and get my news from three different sources each of three months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March:<\/strong> I will read one local and one national newspapers daily for one month. I will do my best to avoid both online and television news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April:<\/strong> I will watch the local and national news daily, avoiding newspapers and online news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May:<\/strong> I will read online news (sources TBD), avoiding tv news and newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>My prediction is that if I can make\/find the time to read the newspapers, I&#8217;ll be most informed during March. Least informed in May. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post my thoughts at the end of each month and a conclusion in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I heard that the most informed people were those who regularly watch the evening news &#8211; local and national. This came as a surprise to me, a guy thoroughly overwhelmed by hundreds of minute-by-minute RSS feed updates. I thought that I was surely the most up-to-date fellow around. But, I&#8217;ve never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[183,156,618,617,556],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-connected","tag-information","tag-media","tag-newspaper","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}