Have your say on Google News
Starting this week, Google News will post comments from people named in the articles it features.
“We’ll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question,” say Google News programmers Dan Meredith and Andy Golding in a blog post. “Our long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send in their comments, and we’ll show them next to the articles about the story. Comments will be published in full, without any edits, but marked as ‘comments’ so readers know it’s the individual’s perspective, rather than part of a journalist’s report.”
Sure, this would be great as a means to evaluate news, and could also useful for the news creators themselves, but given that Google is already facing quite a bit of copyright issues on Google News, it remains to be seen how it would play out. Authenticating the source too could be an issue.
Here’s one article that has a comment.
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