Akkam’s Razor

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Out of the first 15 items on the Digg frontpage, by my reckoning, 6 of them are NOT news.  There REALLY needs to be a choice besides "OK, this is lame" to rank items that are not news…like perhaps "This is not newsworthy".  Until then, lame it is.

Jack's staff redirects, focusing on the "liberal media", a fellow Congressman's dogs, the ability to virtually legislate via Blackberry, and stating that ideas and solutions should come from Georgia, and not from Washington, via insiders and lobbyists.

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No, not the war, not the 655,000 Iraqi non-combatant deaths, not the torture, record energy prices, domestic spying, the child predators, Katrina, or any one of other innumerable failures will lead to the monumental failure of modern conservatism (and conversely NOT some success of the liberal alternative). It's the moral prejorative that the elitist few attempt to mandate on the masses, with the greater story being how this is actually an emblamatic problem of American culture, ideology, and politics, and not a thin, isolated example.

Placing bets over the Internet was effectively criminalized by the federal government yesterday, as lawmakers work to eliminate an activity enjoyed by as many as 23 million Americans who wagered an estimated $6 billion last year.

How does this happen? Who has pushed for this ban? Who loses, who wins, and why?

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Someone posted the following poorly sourced and questionable article on Digg:

Which is it, "mob mentality", "a few bad apples", or "the cream wising to the top"?

There's an interesting converation occuring surrounding Kevin Rose's digg and Jason Calanacis' Netscape.com and the nature of socially ranked news stories.