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A comment on Google News comments

October 14th, 2007 | No comments

Who can comment on stories?:
Right now, Google only posts comments from participants in stories. Participants are people mentioned in a story or related to organizations in a story.
I recall this test being pitched as a way for direct stakeholders in a story to add to it (and/or defend themselves if need be). It’s that [...]

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Google Cuts Deal With AP

August 31st, 2007 | No comments

Maybe newspapers had reason to be paranoid after all. Let’s file this under “one foot in the grave.”
UPDATE: While this would seem like a crisis for those in print, the Economist notes that Google hasn’t really faced a crisis yet themselves. Nevermind.
UPDATE 2: Matthew Ingram says Google and the wire services just torpedoed [...]

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Google News move gives blogs more punch

August 8th, 2007 | No comments

Google announced this morning that they are going to provide limited commenting capability over at their news page – the limited part means limited to the subjects of the news, and or their agents. When I first read the “news, ” (no pun intended) which came via TechMeme in the form of these three [...]

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