{"id":626,"date":"2008-04-21T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2008-04-21T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T13:20:14","slug":"in-search-of-low-calorie-slashdot-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2008\/04\/21\/in-search-of-low-calorie-slashdot-replacement","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Low-Calorie Slashdot Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reluctantly include <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">Slashdot <\/a>in my <a href=\"http:\/\/reader.google.com\">Google Reader<\/a> subscriptions. I&#8217;ve yet to find another source with the same breadth of news coverage that approximately matches my personal and professional interests. The problem is that I&#8217;m increasingly annoyed by the editorial slant. The comments have always been hit-or-miss &#8212; mostly miss &#8212; but as I&#8217;ve gained expertise over the past six or seven years (particularly in legal topics), I&#8217;ve noticed that the article summaries themselves are invariably written by someone who has no idea what they are talking about.<\/p>\n<p>So I ask the blogosphere: what&#8217;s a good Slashdot substitute? I&#8217;m looking for something with a good mix of breaking science, technology, Internet, law, and free-speech type stories, but without everything that makes Slashdot irritating.<\/p>\n<p>[Tags]Slashdot[\/Tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reluctantly include Slashdot in my Google Reader subscriptions. I&#8217;ve yet to find another source with the same breadth of news coverage that approximately matches my personal and professional interests. The problem is that I&#8217;m increasingly annoyed by the editorial slant. The comments have always been hit-or-miss &#8212; mostly miss &#8212; but as I&#8217;ve gained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,14],"tags":[91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}