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These challenges are interesting. The space for collaboration between journalism and tech seems to be really hot right now. I can't help but think that with a

These challenges are interesting. The space for collaboration between journalism and tech seems to be really hot right now. I can't help but think that with all the stuff that's been thought of and implemented in commenting systems like slashdot and reddit and hacker news, that we've plateaued out, and it's time to think of systems that don't involve direct mass communication between participants. Hacker News works alright, but if you look at Slashdot there's just so much content for so little value.

miraj 15y ago
but how do we cross-check & cross-verify comments & opinions across various web/media/news outlets? for example if this current challenge info is posted/covered on reddit, boing boing, slashdot, hackernews etc. it would be really beneficial if we could have a unified commenting system that can aggregate feedbacks from all publishing mediums and social-media channels. that in itself could create a single narrative & storyline for each story/news article on a global scale.
- knowtheory 15y ago
  Yeah but there are so many hurdles to that sort of structure. And really it's kind of antithetical to the nature of the web which is distributed and decentralized (well, more or less decentralized). Things like adoption of a unified comment system is really hard to manage, although companies like Disqus are doing some interesting stuff there.
- jokermatt999 15y ago
  I actually think some separation of comments is a good thing. Without it, discussion is going to fall to the lowest common denominator. It'd be like bringing together people at a scientific conference and some folks at bar because they happened to be discussing the same topic. The scientists will have one perspective, and the average Joe will likely have another. To combine them would probably just make the discussion worse for everyone.

miraj 15y ago

but how do we cross-check & cross-verify comments & opinions across various web/media/news outlets? for example if this current challenge info is posted/covered on reddit, boing boing, slashdot, hackernews etc. it would be really beneficial if we could have a unified commenting system that can aggregate feedbacks from all publishing mediums and social-media channels. that in itself could create a single narrative & storyline for each story/news article on a global scale.

knowtheory 15y ago
Yeah but there are so many hurdles to that sort of structure. And really it's kind of antithetical to the nature of the web which is distributed and decentralized (well, more or less decentralized). Things like adoption of a unified comment system is really hard to manage, although companies like Disqus are doing some interesting stuff there.
jokermatt999 15y ago
I actually think some separation of comments is a good thing. Without it, discussion is going to fall to the lowest common denominator. It'd be like bringing together people at a scientific conference and some folks at bar because they happened to be discussing the same topic. The scientists will have one perspective, and the average Joe will likely have another. To combine them would probably just make the discussion worse for everyone.