In the Summer of 2008 I started a small Tumblr called "The Daily What." It was meant to expand on a feature I had been running on a separate site dedicated to a zine I was self-publishing at the time called Man With Crisis. That feature, "While You Were Working," was just that: A compendium of the most "newsworthy" items of the day, as determined by the Internet.
I became increasingly intrigued by what I like to call "the Internet as Value Barometer" — deciding not only what there was to know, but what was worth knowing. Can the wisdom of the crowd be used to determine what warrants attention and what can be willfully ignored? If enough people think some story deserves to be shared, does that automatically make that story more valuable than all the stories not being shared? To put it another way: Do stories that are not being shared even matter?
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