I used to like reading Digg. However, as of late, whenever I peruse the site, all I see are a bunch of stories written by 13-year old kids about Global Warming and why the iPhone is the best invention ever. So, instead, I opt to read the source of most of the interesting articles that end up on Digg: Slashdot, Ars Technica, Engadget, and others.
I’ve come up with a general rule-of-thumb for measuring the quality of a news source: The quality of a new source is inversely proportional to the number of exclamation points that can be found on the front page.
For example, reading the front page of these sites nets the following number of exclamation points:
- Ars Technica: 1
- Slashdot: 3
- Google News: 0
- BBC: 0
- Digg: 24