What is Digg?Sponsored by Dragon Age: Origins
Can't get enough Dragon Age: Origins? Play the flash game. view!
DragonAgeJourneys.com - Play the free companion flash game to Dragon Age: Origins.
34 Comments
- PatrickA, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20If we didn't have journalists who would write the news stories for people to comment on?
- MiddleOfNowhere, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11"Who needs journalists?"
What an incredibly dumb, ignorant headline.
Journalists (not talking heads) are people who go to Iraq and to other countries where being in the wrong place and/or asking the wrong questions can get you killed. They do research, which can be incredibly boring, hard work because other than you might think, all the world’s knowledge is not online. Gosh, it may even require talking to real people, including politicians and other sources Joe The Basement Blogger may have no access to.
Everyone can sit on his fat lazy ass and spew out clever political commentary - this does not replace journalism. It’s called "commenting", and it has its place. But it will never replace the field work of actually retrieving information and writing the ***** article.
Big Media may go away one day, but you will always need someone to do the research and write the ***** story. The ability to add "This sucks." to a Google-linked NYT article does not replace a single competent journalist.
Stop the mindless fanboyism already.
(I am not a journalist, but I hate this kind of arrogance. The ability to organize and tag your MP3s doesn’t make you a talented musician, either.) - jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11why is this bad? Makes journalists more honest because people can immediately respond.
- drunkentoad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5In summary (from article):
"Here's how the new system will work: people or organizations that are mentioned in news stories can submit comments to the Google News team, which will then display those comments—unedited—alongside the Google News links to those stories. " - IanCube, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6There's a great article about the ethics involved in this at the Tethics.com blog
"While the mechanism has issues such as reaction times being too slow and journalists already including positions of all parties in their stories, the new comment system has an even larger hurdle to clear–accurately verifying identities of those commenting."
http://www.tethics.com/2007/08/09/google-news-adds-comments-accountability-in-question/ - WilliamDavis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What's a journalist? I thought I knew what they were, but I also thought they were already extinct.
- revital9, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5A. How are you going to make sure that the commentators are the REAL people the article talks about? Of course, you might need a human to verify that. So, they don't call it a journalist. It will be a part-time worker, making phone calls. Impressive.
B. Google has been trying to automate news for a while now. It has been a colossal failure. The news on Google do not give the reader a good, comprehensive view on what's going on at the moment. For that matter, sites like Digg do it a hell of a lot better. I believe that at the moment, there is no real replacement for a professional human editor. - cmadach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"Google News will now let those in the news post their own unedited reactions to stories that mention them."
Yes. Brilliant.
And where exactly are these stories going to come from? Someone actually has to publish the news before it can be commented on. Besides, the journalist's role isn't to comment, it's to deliver factual, objective information. People who comment on news aren't journalists, they're pundits.
For arguement's sake, you think journalists are skewed or slant their stories? How the hell do you think actual news makers will respond? I can see it now: Conrad Black: "what? no, that never happened."
Buried as retarded. - BamaMac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Couldn't agree more. I do wonder how this will really work though? How is Google going to know if the real people are commenting or not? Algorithms don't find that information for you.
- felman87, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Google gets its news stories from journalists. They don't pull it outta their asses.
Wouldn't this system work similar to digg? - IanCube, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The article I linked to on Tethics (in my comment below) actually talks about how they plan to verify it. They plan to do it manually!
- zigforjustice, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Rather interesting article
- JoEBlack982, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2HEADLINE: Increasing public support for Impeachment
Comments : (1)
ah, *****
-george dubyah - HonoredMule, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This actually sounds pretty cool. I bet it could really help cut down the damage caused by sensationalist reporting and misrepresentation.
- skinneej, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2trying looking outside the US and you'll find thousands of journalists who are simply trying to report the facts about the places in which they live, only to be threatened, killed, or forced into exile because of it. Don't let your jaded approach to western media taint the work that so many people do around the world in the face of large odds.
- Achilles, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Something like that would certainly help the integrity of Digg. I really want to see how this will work.
- kinglenster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Lets hope the comments don't go the way of Youtube then.
- Kershek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I don't think those people are the target audience of this announcement.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You duplicitous bastard.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Diggle_Rising_Google_News_Adds_Comments - hiPpymIck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1surely the comments will be interesting/informative and add to -not detract - from the articles ..
if its something that affected you personally that ppl are reading about
..youd want to improve other ppls understanding of your take on it
information wants to be free - flannelback, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That makes Fox News good press?
- greenmountain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Man loses remote control in couch cushion, no news at eleven"
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Shhh PatrickA. Most people on digg firmly believe journalism is dead because blogs (lolcats!!) have replaced the archaic media monopolies, and then the final nail in the coffin was of course Digg, who by linking to mainstream media stories proves once and for all that mainstream media is dead.
- Four20, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2sorry, google does all
- mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Google has the cross-hairs on everyone.
- flannelback, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yes, but it might replace a few Fox News spinmeisters...
- TorySolares, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Success depends on our using, and not opposing...
- snehalp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0The first part of the title is true for the US , anyways they report stories which are far from reality
- graealex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1In Soviet Russia story writes YOU!!
- mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3This might be hard for some to believe but some people don't know that google exists.
- BamaMac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Interesting. Well it will be cool if it works for them. More power to the people.
- xpose, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Does it even make a difference? Any press is good press.
- ufee, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Sweet. This'll be interesting.
- Four20, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1google
The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site. Download the official 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is