http://steveouting.com/2009/11/21/payyattention-widget-ends-new-direction-emergent-authority/ Journalist, consultant, entrepreneur ... Musings on digital media, Web 2.0/3.0, & news in the Internet era Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:43:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://steveouting.com/2009/11/21/payyattention-widget-ends-new-direction-emergent-authority/comment-page-1/#comment-47877 Lyn Headley Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:02:41 +0000 http://steveouting.com/?p=994#comment-47877 The comparison of the Hourly Press with Google News and Digg is an interesting one. I think one big question for all three systems is how to select the pool of participants to monitor and then how to distribute the authority to actually affect the selection of the most significant news stories. I'm not sure, but Google seems to have manually selected the media sources, while Digg lets anyone become a source. The advantage of the Google approach is stability and credibility -- you get a lot of reputable people determining newsworthiness, while Digg's approach suffers from easy corruption by the disreputable, I think. On the other hand, the Digg approach brings more power to regular people and thus democratizes the newsmaking process. This is a good thing too. The big question is how to take the credibility and stability from something like Google news and keep the democracy inherent in something like Digg? The Hourly press is trying to balance those factors. So I think you've hit on a productive comparison. The comparison of the Hourly Press with Google News and Digg is an interesting one. I think one big question for all three systems is how to select the pool of participants to monitor and then how to distribute the authority to actually affect the selection of the most significant news stories. I’m not sure, but Google seems to have manually selected the media sources, while Digg lets anyone become a source. The advantage of the Google approach is stability and credibility — you get a lot of reputable people determining newsworthiness, while Digg’s approach suffers from easy corruption by the disreputable, I think. On the other hand, the Digg approach brings more power to regular people and thus democratizes the newsmaking process. This is a good thing too. The big question is how to take the credibility and stability from something like Google news and keep the democracy inherent in something like Digg? The Hourly press is trying to balance those factors. So I think you’ve hit on a productive comparison.

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