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This was published over a year and a half ago, and I believe it was timed nicely with a16z's investment into BuzzFeed. I would argue that a Facebook stream look

This was published over a year and a half ago, and I believe it was timed nicely with a16z's investment into BuzzFeed. I would argue that a Facebook stream looks more like the future than a Twitter stream these days (just look for the most prominent icon in the candidate debates). It might also be worth mentioning that quality may not be the right metric for news, rather it's probably consumption. Consumption is also easier to measure.

mrdrozdov 11y ago
As a follow up, here's one of my favorite articles on measuring journalism metrics. https://github.com/abelsonlive/_site_/blob/master/_posts/2013-07-25-One-year-after-finding-a-metric-for-news.md https://github.com/abelsonlive/_site_/blob/master/_posts/201... It also serves as an entry into the rabbit hole of this slippery topic.