Google News Allowing Story Participants To Comment
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| They are starting it off by only allowing people involved with the story to
| comment — and participants must first be authenticated by email. The article
| rounds up other bloggers' views on the game-changing nature, and the possible
| dangers to Google, of this new feature.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/09/1429250&from=rss
Some predicted this a year ago. They could stomp on many sites and startups and
become the biggest news gateway.
Related:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/26/microsoft_digg_deal/
Too Digg for their boots?
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| What concerns me is that Digg hasn’t exactly been as Linux/UNIX friendly
| lately. Oh, sure, they have the section and news gets put in it. But it feels
| like less of it is being promoted to even just the technology page lately,
| let alone the front page. And then, when they do, I’ve noticed quite a few
| legitimate Linux/UNIX stories getting buried or pulled shortly after being
| promoted.
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| Furthermore, Digg has had an increased number of very vocal
| pro-Microsoft/anti-FOSS users commenting lately and it has been hard to find
| a FOSS related story that doesn’t get flooded with anti-FOSS related
| sentiment. It has been suggested on many many occasions in the comments on
| Digg that Microsoft employs (some of) these people to create accounts and
| post pro-Microsoft/anti-FOSS comments.
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| [...]
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| So I ask you, is there any way in the world that this new contract could
| improve the situation? Not at all. Who knows what’s in the contract, but
| theoretically there could be something in there about pulling anti-Microsoft
| content in between the parts that cover flooding the site with pro Microsoft
| ads and of course, anti Linux/UNIX ads.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/digg_too_big_for_their_boots
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