Friday, November 14, 2003
Power to the people
This is an interesting piece on how people rate news stories compared to the media's view: less celebrity news, more on which opinions are creating a buzz in the world. For key news items (the war, etc.) they rate pretty much the same. Weird stuff finds its way more often on user-rated stories too.
This comparison was done using blogs and some nifty software - and so shows a bias towards technical and technological stories too. But it shows blogs have a serious place :-)
And at blogdex there's a site that is tracking how information spreads across the net, and how widely and fast, according to how often it appears in weblogs. Check out the about blogdex link to find out how it works. Wired has an article about it all too.
(Why am I writing this stuff when I've got other stuff I must do?)
This is an interesting piece on how people rate news stories compared to the media's view: less celebrity news, more on which opinions are creating a buzz in the world. For key news items (the war, etc.) they rate pretty much the same. Weird stuff finds its way more often on user-rated stories too.
This comparison was done using blogs and some nifty software - and so shows a bias towards technical and technological stories too. But it shows blogs have a serious place :-)
And at blogdex there's a site that is tracking how information spreads across the net, and how widely and fast, according to how often it appears in weblogs. Check out the about blogdex link to find out how it works. Wired has an article about it all too.
(Why am I writing this stuff when I've got other stuff I must do?)
(c) 2003-2005 Russell Beale
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