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USA Today to use the Digg model to gather news?
wired.com — According to internal documents provided to Wired News and interviews with key executives, Gannett, the publisher of USA Today as well as 90 other American daily newspapers, will begin crowdsourcing many of its newsgathering functions.
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- GnuTzu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3The newspaper every business traveller can not avoid--try as they might.
- vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29soon to be USA Today headlines:
Wii Rocks!! W00t!
iPod Mind-reader in the works?
Bush is an a$$hat.
Google gives another 30 bucks to Creative Commons.
I kid, I kid...
I'm actually very interested in hearing about the development of this project.- rickcarson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Fantastic news - I look forward to my next visit to the US.
After all, the world needs a decent daily paper devoted to Apple... :D
- rickcarson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Fantastic news - I look forward to my next visit to the US.
- JoseGosdin, on 10/12/2007, -15/+4Will it have the same liberal bias?
- minorthreat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17ok, so if every politcal article posted is anti-bush. Is it fair to say they are liberal? have you ever thought that Bush may just really suck?
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@minorthreat:
Who said anything about Bush? Liberal bias in MSM has been around a lot longer than Bush has been president.
- crumbelievable, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Adapt or die.
- crumbelievable, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Bury my previous comment, it's stupid. Originally it was "adapt or die you little bitch" but i realized that was juvenile. What the hell bury this one too. Hey Kevin! Give people a window to delete their comments!!!
- Fracture98, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1The US has very little real news anyway. Monkeys could fling ***** at a wall of words and write better news than the majority of sources.
- catullus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"crowdsourcing", eh? i like it. digg should've come up with that term along time ago, it'd have been easier to introduce the concept of digg to newcomers
- jeffphowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Hi. I wrote the story (as well as the article that coined the term Crowdsourcing). I spent all week talking to reporters and executives at Ganett. They're not using a "digg" model. It's a sweeping, complex initiative, some of which involves crowdsourcing, some of which doesn't (moving to a 24/7 newsgathering operation is smart, but it's not crowdsourcing; mobilizing readers to assist in investigations, which Gannett is also doing, is crowdsourcing.) Digg is a form of crowdsourcing, in that it employs the crowd as a filter, but that doesn't mean all crowdsourcing is like Digg (the filter function is actually not used in the majority of crowdsourcing models, even when it probably should be.) None of Gannett's plans, as far as I know, will give readers the opportunity to rate content. I don't want to seem schoolmarmish, but these terms get bandied about and the meanings can get diluted as a result. For anyone who's interested, I've been posting additional transcripts and internal documents on my blog, crowdsourcing.com.
- vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1oh great! another inaccurate title on digg. i hope USA Today doesn't have such troubles ;)
- MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@jeffphowe
Thanks for clarifying this. My intent in titling this article "USA Today to use the Digg model to gather news?" was to keep the story relevant to the Digg audience. You see, the original title of the article was "Gannett to Crowdsource News" and as you have pointed out, "Crowdsourcing" is a term completely made up for Wired Magazine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing and anyone who was not familiar with the term might have had a difficult time relating to that concept.
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yet another sign of the death of the newspaper. Gannett has been attempting to mine the "local data machine" for a couple years now, stumbling every step of the way. Like most of their "initiatives," it will be too little, far too late. Innovativeness is not their trademark -- as a former webmaster and software engineer for Gannett, I can attest to this. They don't understand the technology, and beyond marketing demographics, they don't understand the general public. They understand margins and budgets, and that's where it ends.
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