Comments on: 50 users v 1 editor

By: Brian Cubbison

Brian Cubbison — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:21:56 +0000

The Wisconsin State Journal now allows people to vote online and choose a story that will be on the front page of the paper the next day.

By: mymarkup.net

mymarkup.net — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:52:18 +0000

Sociala sökmotorer: framtid eller dyr historia?
Mycket prat om att Yahoo inte tänker konkurrera med Google på sökmarknaden, utan nöjer sig med att vara tvåa, efter…

By: Read/WriteWeb

Read/WriteWeb — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:47:25 +0000

Read/WriteWeb Daily
Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don’t have to! (p.s. thanks for the encouraginng comments about this new daily feature - I’m trying out a new name…) - Out with old media; in with……

By: Antony Mayfield

Antony Mayfield — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:20:27 +0000

I think its useful to get some perspective and remind ourselves (or, ahem, our more devotional and geeky friends) that Digg’s not some kind of hive-mind or collective intelligence, nor does it necessarily exhibit any particular wisdom as yet.

But it is a lot of fun, it is a radically new way of sorting news and I’m not sure that the small numbers involved in voting stories on to the site have any bearing on its potential as a model.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:40:18 +0000

Heretical! Also possibly true.

Random thoughts:

When I used to edit a newspaper, I used to tell folks I had 40,000 readers, all of whom had a different idea of what a newspaper should be. (Part of the process of deciding what went where was also the reporters, who were the folks out on the street.)

I find digg’s noise-to-signal ratio (at least for my interests) high. I’m watching Newsvine to see if their mix of “editors” makes more sense.

Much of what I learn about the emerging mediascape comes from bloggers, many of them riffing on what many others have written. I consider those folks my trusted editors, a concept I’m convinced will be a central part of wherever we land in the near future.

Cheers.

By: A t r i u m - media e cidadania

A t r i u m - media e cidadania — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:02:09 +0000

Jornalismo participativo - mas quantos são?
Lloyd Shepherd, vice-director das publicações digitais do Guardian, acaba de escrever um post com base na seguinte ideia: se partirmos da percepção de que num site como, por exemplo, o Digg, os votos de 50 dos seus cerca de 140…

By: Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Tuesday squibs

Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Tuesday squibs — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

[...] — @ 9:16 am

No classes today, but a series of meetings. Posting may be light: 50 users v 1 editor. Lloyd Shepherd practices heresy in a pst you need to read [...]

By: Simon Dickson » Letting readers edit the news

Simon Dickson » Letting readers edit the news — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

[...] d Shepherd from the Guardian Unlimited team wrote an interesting piece the other day about editing by audience consensus, in the context of Digg. For thos [...]

By: Publishing 2.0 » Who Are the New Media Gatekeepers?

Publishing 2.0 » Who Are the New Media Gatekeepers? — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

[...] n’t be the former — but not so fast. Lloyd Shepherd of Guardian Unlimited uses a critique of Digg to raise some interesting questions about the micro-gatekeep [...]

By: Publishing 2.0 » Publishing Requires More Than Technology

Publishing 2.0 » Publishing Requires More Than Technology — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

[...] define the new publishing industry. I remain deeply skeptical that pure technology or the wisdom of the masses (i.e. Digg, Reddit) can serve this function alone. (Memeor [...]