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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crumbelievableNov 4, 2006
Bury 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!!!
fracture98Nov 4, 2006
The US has very little real news anyway. Monkeys could fling s**t at a wall of words and write better news than the majority of sources.
catullusNov 4, 2006
"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
mrbabymanNov 5, 2006Submitter
@jeffphoweThanks 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 <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing</a> and anyone who was not familiar with the term might have had a difficult time relating to that concept.
toxicredmNov 5, 2006
@minorthreat:Who said anything about Bush? Liberal bias in MSM has been around a lot longer than Bush has been president.
abadinalbanyNov 6, 2006
yet 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.