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February 26, 2008

If Nobody Buzzes Me, Do I Make a Noise?

by AltHippo @ 6:34 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Or: How I Stopped Thinking for Myself, and Learned to Worship Main Stream Media from an Obeisant Position.

Salon describes a new community Digg-like intertubes contraption:

Unlike Digg, Buzz does not let people submit just any stories from across the Web. Instead, Buzz is seeded with articles and videos from about 100 pre-selected news sites and blogs, among them Wired.com, Forbes, Time, The Huffington Post, Boing Boing, Portfolio, and Salon.

I’m suspicious of any mechanism that maintains the status quo. And, Buzz will clearly have that effect. If they were maintaining a list of the top stories not on the top-100 media outlets, now that would be interesting.

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