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About Netscape & Digg

by AndyInTN Jun 15, 2006 7:52AM PDT

Ok, I was trying to finish the show, but this just kept eating at me so I have to get this off my chest so I can listen to the rest of the show.

Ok, for starters I like digg & I do like Netscape, however, I haven't ventured over to Netscape in many months.

Digg does not have a political group and anytime anyone posts anything remotely political, it gets flamed. Netscape has many stories related to all sorts of things, IF they turn this into a social bookmarking site then stories that aren't being fed to us by the traditional sources (the government) then more important stories might actually be presented to users.

Ok, secondly. This issue has came up before with digg such as Shoutwire. WHY does it matter if a site other than Digg allows users to vote on a story? C'mon, be a little bit more open! Digg will still have the bragging rights to "user voted stories", if you're scared it won't, put it on Wikipedia or something, but GEEZ, lets move on for crying out loud.

Ok, now I can finish the show.

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HAVE NO LIFE
by big10ken Jun 15, 2006 7:56AM PDT

I need to stop posting and get back to my life...

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I agree
by acedtect Jun 16, 2006 3:22AM PDT

The copying of Digg isn't the issue so much to me. It's the poorly created interface. But it is beta.

I also like that it's wide open but I wonder how long that works before it brekas down. Digg is rumoured to be launching non-tech versions soon itself.

INteresting question here. What's better for overall news, citizen-generated headlines with voting a la Digg or algorithm generated headlines a la Google News?

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It Is Interesting
by AndyInTN Jun 16, 2006 4:07AM PDT

This probably ventures to the "off topic" land but in my opinion I think that there are a LOT of news agencies that only publish what comes from the government, they don't do their own investigative journalism. They are primarily worried about breaking the news and making sure they are the first to break it.

I just think that a citizen generated news website would bring a lot of stories into focus that other people would otherwise not see. Whether the stories are factual or not is a case in its own, you have to determine that for yourself, even with mainstream news agencies.

With that said, I don't like the design, of course it is in Beta. I realize they have to make money, but GEEZ, does it require SOOO many ads?

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(NT) (NT) Why do you think newswire news comes form 'the govt.' ???
by cardsbb9 Jun 16, 2006 4:25AM PDT
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Both have their purposes
by cardsbb9 Jun 16, 2006 4:23AM PDT
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