Comments on: Evolution of the Newswire on the Web http://publishing2.com/2008/09/11/evolution-of-the-newswire-on-the-web/ The (r)Eevolution of Media Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:23:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tim Burden http://publishing2.com/2008/09/11/evolution-of-the-newswire-on-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-540607 Tim Burden Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:17:43 +0000 http://publishing2.com/?p=1119#comment-540607 Thanks for including my comment here, Scott. Yes, the web is a pretty good newswire, especially if you do some work and aggregate a bunch of RSS feeds (from major news sites but also from aggregators and search engines) together and filter them through something like Y! pipes. Even a non-programmer could make something for his org that worked pretty close to the way AP's wire works, and a programmer could make it work EXACTLY the same. Platforms like yours will make this even easier. I think it's a really big problem, and a disservice to the web, its users, and news companies themselves when they put copies of the same story in multiple locations on the web. It serves nobody, and in fact makes our news gathering experience harder by gumming up aggregators. Content sharing - the practice of putting the same content in many different locations - should be a crime. Yet that's the model AP works on. Aggregators need to get better at crap-filtering, duplication-avoidance, and crediting original sources. Thanks for including my comment here, Scott. Yes, the web is a pretty good newswire, especially if you do some work and aggregate a bunch of RSS feeds (from major news sites but also from aggregators and search engines) together and filter them through something like Y! pipes. Even a non-programmer could make something for his org that worked pretty close to the way AP’s wire works, and a programmer could make it work EXACTLY the same.

Platforms like yours will make this even easier.

I think it’s a really big problem, and a disservice to the web, its users, and news companies themselves when they put copies of the same story in multiple locations on the web. It serves nobody, and in fact makes our news gathering experience harder by gumming up aggregators. Content sharing – the practice of putting the same content in many different locations – should be a crime. Yet that’s the model AP works on.

Aggregators need to get better at crap-filtering, duplication-avoidance, and crediting original sources.

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