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Yes, but who's going to pay the intrepid journalists to go out to Iraq? That's the part of the model that I can't quite figure out yet. If the AP can't sell the

by far33d 19y ago

Yes, but who's going to pay the intrepid journalists to go out to Iraq? That's the part of the model that I can't quite figure out yet. If the AP can't sell their content, who's reporting in Angola? Who's covering the un-sexy stuff in Nevada elections, etc. The other is the issue of aggregation. It might just be that bloggers are the new journalists and Techmeme/GoogleNews are the new New York Times, so maybe it's not a huge problem, but overall, I think most people aren't interested in building up and filtering RSS feeds to find the news they care about.

byrneseyeview 19y ago
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/09/iraqi_bloggers.html http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/09/iraqi_bloggers.... http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2003/11/004953.php http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2003/11/004953.php Wherever there's something interesting happening, there's at least one person with a Blogger account and a little free time.
- davidw 19y ago
  Ok, but integrating all of that into something quickly and easily digestible, checking it for facts, and checking to see if it's even covering the whole story is still not something part of that ecosystem. There's a startup for someone, but I'm not sure it's something that's going to be tech driven...
  - byrneseyeview 19y ago
    That, or there's Instapundit and Daily Kos. Most popular bloggers lean towards collect stories -- they don't write them. Blogs are a distributed newsroom: reporters and editors don't even have to know each other to outwrite and outthink the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
    - davidw 19y ago
      Those are all politics, all the time. Something like cnn.com has a much better mix of stories, even if they're certainly not stellar journalists. People are motivated to get involved in politics stories for free (everyone has an opinion, and to judge by lots of people, don't even need much in the way of facts to have one), but much less so to go out and do real reporting.

by far33d 19y ago

byrneseyeview 19y ago

http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/09/iraqi_bloggers.html http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/09/iraqi_bloggers.... http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2003/11/004953.php http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2003/11/004953.php Wherever there's something interesting happening, there's at least one person with a Blogger account and a little free time.

davidw 19y ago
Ok, but integrating all of that into something quickly and easily digestible, checking it for facts, and checking to see if it's even covering the whole story is still not something part of that ecosystem. There's a startup for someone, but I'm not sure it's something that's going to be tech driven...
- byrneseyeview 19y ago
  That, or there's Instapundit and Daily Kos. Most popular bloggers lean towards collect stories -- they don't write them. Blogs are a distributed newsroom: reporters and editors don't even have to know each other to outwrite and outthink the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
  - davidw 19y ago
    Those are all politics, all the time. Something like cnn.com has a much better mix of stories, even if they're certainly not stellar journalists. People are motivated to get involved in politics stories for free (everyone has an opinion, and to judge by lots of people, don't even need much in the way of facts to have one), but much less so to go out and do real reporting.