{"id":652394,"date":"2013-04-15T10:15:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=224994"},"modified":"2013-04-15T10:15:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:15:39","slug":"matt-cutts-thinks-you-should-consider-giving-up-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652394","title":{"rendered":"Matt Cutts Thinks You Should Consider Giving Up News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Twitter exchange between Googlers Matt Cutts and Tim Bray: <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> div.twitterditto323641520295124993 { background: #000000 url(http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/images\/themes\/theme10\/bg.gif) no-repeat; padding: 20px; } div.twitterditto323641520295124993 a { color: #383838; } div.twitter-inner-ditto323641520295124993 { background: #fff; padding: 10px 12px 10px 30px; margin: 0; min-height: 48px; color: #000; font-size: 22px !important; font-family: Georgia, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; line-height: 30px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; 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} div.twitter-inner-reply-ditto323615882460950528 span.at-name a, div.twitter-inner-reply-ditto323615882460950528 span.at-name a:visited, div.twitter-inner-reply-ditto323615882460950528 span.at-name a:hover { color: #999; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; } div.twitter-inner-reply-ditto323615882460950528 div.metadata div.author img { float: left; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; } div.twitter-inner-reply-ditto323615882460950528 span.tweet { font-size: 16px; } .dittodownarrow { width: 0; height: 0; border-left: 20px solid transparent; border-right: 20px solid transparent; border-top: 20px solid #EEE; margin: 0 0 0 73px; } <\/style>\n<div class=\"twitterditto-reply323615882460950528\">\n<div class=\"twitter-inner-reply-ditto323615882460950528\">\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"follow-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\"> Follow @mattcutts <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1780869878\/image1327517991_normal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span class=\"name\"> Matt Cutts <\/span><br \/><span class=\"at-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\" class=\"at-name\">@mattcutts<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tweet\"> A great article about why you should consider giving up news: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/p32BilNFxc\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/p32BilNFxc<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dittodownarrow\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> div.twitterditto-reply323619250445103107 { background: #EEE no-repeat;*\/ padding: 5px 20px 10px 20px; 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Want to be one of them, or not? <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dittodownarrow\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"twitterditto323641520295124993\">\n<div class=\"twitter-inner-ditto323641520295124993\">\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"follow-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\"> Follow @mattcutts <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1780869878\/image1327517991_normal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span class=\"name\"> Matt Cutts <\/span><br \/><span class=\"at-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattcutts\" class=\"at-name\">@mattcutts<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tweet\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/timbray\">@timbray<\/a> all I know is the two times I&#8217;ve given up news\/social media for 30 days have been among my most productive months. <img src='http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' \/>  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"timestamp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?in_reply_to=323641520295124993\" class=\"twitreply\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Reply<\/a> &nbsp;&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/retweet?tweet_id=323641520295124993\" class=\"retweet\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Retweet<\/a> &nbsp;&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/favorite?tweet_id=323641520295124993\" class=\"favorite\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>Favorite<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mattcutts\/status\/323641520295124993\" title=\"Mon Apr 15 03:38:46 +0000 2013\">10 hours ago<\/a> via web&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/socialditto.com\/\">@socialditto<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>If you follow the adventures of Matt Cutts, you no doubt know that he regularly engages in &#8220;30 day challenges,&#8221; in which he spends a month focusing on some goal. For January, his challenge was &#8220;no news, no Twitter, fewer emails, and no social media in general&#8221;). It was a quiet time for Google algorithm update news to say the least. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In general, when I wanted to hop onto Techmeme or Google News or Hacker News or Twitter\/Nuzzel, instead I opened up my to-do list,&#8221; Cutts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/what-i-learned-from-time-away-from-the-internet-and-email\/\">wrote<\/a> of his experience. &#8220;As a result, I got a ton of stuff done in January. I quickly learned that if something important was happening, I\u2019d hear about it from someone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2013\/apr\/12\/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli\">The article<\/a> Cutts points to in the tweet above comes from The Guardian, and is called, &#8220;News is bad for you \u2013 and giving up reading it will make you happier&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to that, news: misleads, is irrelevant, has no explanatory power, is toxic to your body, increases cognitive errors, inhibits thinking, works like a drug, wastes time, makes us passive, and kills creativity. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting read. 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