oh shit, the news has gone 2.0
Posted: August 17, 2008
not sure if anyone has noticed lately but the news/media is starting to allow for comments and other social outlets. not just local either. bbc has social bookmarking icons while cnn has twitter support.
naturally most of them you have to either sign up an account to participate or you have to be moderated in which case they may alter your interaction. no real surprise there though. i am surprised however about the twitter support and social icons. i know i may be going out on a limb here but i think it is a little early for the media to attach themselves to these 3rd party services (especially with twitters down time track record). personally i think they are rolling the dice - but it is a risk that may not leave them behind if social networking standards do set in.
the comments are cool i guess. it gives even the pawns a soapbox which is something society has never experienced in the past. to them though it is all raw data… the bigger the reaction a story gets the more you will hear about like minded stories. love that traffic!
anything is better than the cnn t-shirts. man, that is a whole other topic.
on a separate yet related note: it is hot as hell this weekend in pdx. tracy and i just got back from europe (i will post a few pics soon) and we went from 70 degree weather to 102 degree weather. wtf?!? well, i was on good old katu and i saw the 7 day forecast and monday had a question mark on it. i remember when they started to implement the icons on the days. umbrellas n shit? who in portland uses an umbrella? especially when there is no rain? i personally think it allows them to further escape accountability. the umbrella says: no rain will fall but just in case you may want to invest in a peppermint umbrella
while the question mark says: we have absolutley no idea what is going to happen. every man, woman and child is on their own.
why is there an umbrella on the days it isn’t raining but no umbrella on the day it is?
god if they read this they are going to think i am jerk face. thus why i am linking to them here - feel free to click it a few times so they get some traffic from good old mr. diggles. together we can change their antics.
UPDATE!
i stared using the comments! scroll to the bottom. i am a darsh.
that’s why i watch kgw news. they know their shit.
From jecka on August 18th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
as if. they are all bunkola.
kgw doesn’t allow for comments. punkz.
From mr.diggles on August 18th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I’m not as skeptical as you, Diggles, but I agree that the majority of what we see on the news is BS.
And nice use of “jerk face”.
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