Do you like reading the newspapers and magazines to stay up to date on current news; be it political, technological, meteorological or comical? Do you like to see amazing, hilarious or interesting images of the world around us? Do you feel that your local newspaper and news station just doesn’t report on things you like to hear about? If you do, join the club.

Though I work for Tour Great Miami, I must admit that I rarely ever read a newspaper or watch the news. It’s not that I’m not interested in the world around me or am unsympathetic because I don’t care who was shot last night or who was robbed this morning. I do have sympathy for the families of tragedies and the businesses that have circumstantial events happen. I just grow oh so excessively tired of hearing nothing but murders, gang fights, drug dealings, political scandals, the weather every 10 minutes, commercials every 2 minutes for 5 minutes (with the weather before the commercial break as well as the first thing once back on air) and how the stock market will want to make you pull your hair out because it drops 100 points every two seconds.

Ever find that newspapers do the same thing? (That’s why I love Tour Great Miami so much, its entertainment based. You enjoy yourself while you read it; but enough self fluffing.) There is a whole section of the paper dedicated to sports that half of us don’t really care about or want to read about… or at least me. There isn’t enough news that is of decent human interest and then when there is - its 50 some writers writing about the same thing.

You read and watch the same thing over and over. That’s why I stopped watching the news and reading the newspapers. I started reading my news on Digg. Digg has eight different main sections of news with 52 sub categories to choose from. All images, videos, podcasts and news articles. This is the best part: it’s all news submitted by people like me who want different news from all over the world.

It’s simple; if you like what you read in a certain section, you “Digg” it. The articles with the most “Diggs” end up on the front page of the site. You can pick through news that interests you instead of trying to find news that interests you. If you find something and want to share it with others, you can sign up with a username and submit stories to the website. You can provide feedback by comments on the stories and have discussions with others who like or dislike the same stories you do.

If I want to read about Japan I can. If I want to read about Apple and Microsoft’s newest ploys to get consumers to buy things they think they need but don’t have the money for… I can. If I want to find pictures of huge icicles covering palm trees and cars sitting by the shore that is about 6 or 7 inches thick… I can. (That picture is actually neat.) If I want to read about where the Brangelina Bunch is heading to now and what clothes (obviously black) are being bought, where, when, how much the bill was….. well, you get the picture.

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