Google News comments likely to be panned by major corporations
Google today introduced a new experimental feature in their News - they’ve added story participant comments into their listings of stories.
I think it’s a cool idea, since it invites more community participation in story threads - sort of an evolutionary step on the old threaded format of the old Usenet layout paradigm. If you’ve ever had a story written about you in news media, and were disappointed to see that the reporter made a mistake or neglected to mention something that you felt was important, this would be a convenient route to mitigating it.
But, from what I’ve seen commonly happening in the contemporary business community, I’d bet that most of the major, publicly-traded companies will not engage in commenting on stories about themselves. Read on and I’ll describe… (more…)
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Posted by Chris Silver Smith of Netconcepts on 08/08/2007 | Permalink | 
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