It’s all relative
| Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 | --Sean |
The question came up around the office today about how people were using Yahoo! Buzz, that social news aggregator known mostly for aiming massive quantities of traffic at unsuspecting websites through its Yahoo! frontpage integration. I'm not a heavy Buzz user, as it turns out, so I was kind of surprised by one of the feaures that got called out -- apparently the Related Stories are way more relevant and engaging than I ever knew. After glancing at this note about the fact that Sarah Palin doesn't like interviews, I've also found out that the rock group Heart is apparently composed of Democrats and that Jon Stewart is, of course, still hilarious. The fact that these Related Stories really are interesting as well as being on topic allows for a Wikipedia-like exploration down all of these little rabbit holes, which gives me a compelling reason to visit the Buzz site itself (instead of just consuming the stories from the frontpage) that I'm not sure I had before.