Comments on: What happens when you Flickr the news

By: Periodismo Ciudadano

Periodismo Ciudadano — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:32:41 +0000

[...] ¿Y si hiciéramos eso con las noticias, animando a la gente a bloguear, usar sistemas tipo Digg, marcar favoritos, establecer etiquetas (tags) o añadir notas y comentarios? Y más que organizar las noticias en las tradicionales secciones, ¿qué tal permitir crear una gran variedad de grupos, como hace Flickr con las fotos? […] Vía | Reportr.net [...]

By: Martin Stabe » links for 2007-04-06

Martin Stabe » links for 2007-04-06 — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:23:21 +0000

[...] reportr.net: What happens when you Flickr the news Alfred Hermida: “What would happen if you apply the design ideas of social media to news? This is exactly what my friends over at Hop Studios in Vancouver have done in a project they call Flickring the News.” (tags: flickr tickr journalism) [...]

By: Bryan Murley

Bryan Murley — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:28:58 +0000

ahh, so this would be more of an algorithmic approach to the layout of the front page of the news site. Very interesting, and i’m sure something that would certainly be achievable with the right amount of vision and money – quick, patent it!

seriously, with AJAX, you could even make it so that the page could refresh with a new layout every so often as people read and react to the news of the day – and readers could see the page layout change before their eyes. wouldn’t that be cool.

an added benefit to this sort of approach is that it would remove some of the incentive for gaming the system that occurs in Digg.

By: Alfred Hermida

Alfred Hermida — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:32:31 +0000

Hi Brian. This could take it beyond Digg-like voting on news sites. Think about using an idea like interestingnews and applying it to news stories. So prominence is determined by a mixture of page views, comments, annotation or more. Could news index pages be organically created based on tags? As you say. all of this requires not just a technological know-how but also willingness to innovate and experiment.

By: charlenecroft

charlenecroft — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:11:29 +0000

I think that we should use the social media and networking principles and apply them not only to the news but to all forms of knowledge… my particular research interest is trying to do this with academic knowledge. Thanks for this… I’m going to check out Hop Studios now…

By: Bryan Murley

Bryan Murley — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:01:56 +0000

To take this idea further, could the design principles of social media replace the notion of the news front page, decided by editors?

Hey, sounds a lot like what Digg does in a small, tech-related sphere. I’ve argued before for Digg-like voting mechanisms on college news sites. Unfortunately, the technological know-how and want-to are sorely missing at this point.