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I read two blog posts this morning that seemed to be crying-out to be connected together. So all credit to their authors, and a tiny bit to me for the meeting. The first was by Jamie Madigan, who writes the terrific Psychology of Video Games blog, looking into the reasons people do (or On most news organisations’ websites, you’ll find a widget called ‘most read’, ‘most shared’ or ‘most commented’, possibly all three. The Guardian’s Zeitgeist experiment suggests an interesting alternative. Typically, the content found in the most-X sections provides a salutary — if depressing — reminder of humanity’s baseness and stupidity. The latest storm in a teacup to upset the blogosphere is the spectre of ‘fast-food content’. Raised as a threat by McArrington himself, the worry is that fast and loose content quickly generated to match popular keywords will swamp quality content in search rankings. …what really scares me? It’s the rise of fast food content I’ve been thinking about the future of newspapers a fair bit over the last few weeks, because we’ve been preparing a panel event on just that topic. It’s involved a range of reading and on-record and off-record conversations with a load of people involved with newspapers — readers, editors, pundits and the man on the Clapham Omnibus. I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks… Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly |             | |||
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Six Reasons to Allow Anonymous Comments
While we slept and watched England #fail at sport over the weekend, our American colleagues were having a rousing discussion of the rights and wrongs of allowing people to comment anonymously on news sites, blogs and forums.
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