{"id":953,"date":"2008-08-04T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=953"},"modified":"2008-08-04T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T16:27:55","slug":"about-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/08\/04\/about-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2008\/08\/youtube.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-954\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/files\/2008\/08\/youtube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tend to use Google News as my primary source of nationwide news these days. It aggregates thousands of news stories automatically, and is good at making sure I see a &#8216;blend&#8217; of things, versus getting my news from one source.<\/p>\n<p>It has one strange bug, though: its algorithm for truncating long news titles makes no sense. Sometimes it truncates an article title way too early. Consider the above, for example. I chuckled that the WSJ would publish an article whose title underhandedly mocks Youtube for not having anything worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Except that this isn&#8217;t the case. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121785204839309715.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">The article<\/a> is entitled &#8220;YouTube to Offer Some Content From China&#8217;s Olympic Games,&#8221; but it got split up across two lines, so Google News only took the first one.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;d rather watch half the stuff on Youtube than the Olympics. But I&#8217;m a grumpy curmudgeon about the Olympics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to use Google News as my primary source of nationwide news these days. It aggregates thousands of news stories automatically, and is good at making sure I see a &#8216;blend&#8217; of things, versus getting my news from one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/08\/04\/about-time-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}