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How Reddit is attempting to break the case of the Boston Marathon explosions.
Is this right or wrong? Do you think this is crowdsourced vigilantism or networked problem solving?(Source: reuters)
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This is great: Cory Booker does a Reddit AMA
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…if you look at the most successful sites which link out — Fark, Reddit, Techmeme, Memeorandum, Drudge (and Drudge above all) — they’re all incredibly ugly. And I’ve come to the conclusion that that’s actually as much a feature as it is a bug. The ugly is good, because it drives you away. And the reason you go to that website is to be driven away.”
With that in mind, “we’re aggressively anti-pageview,” Salmon says. “We don’t want people to stay on that site. We just want people to go away.”
“And then,” McCarthy says, “to come back.”
Felix Salmon and Ryan McCarthy, my favorite Odd Couple of Reuters, discuss “Counterparties” with Megan Garber at Nieman Lab -
Designing Careers That Don’t Yet Exist, with Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian
Watch the rest of the clips at Fast Company
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The Redditors have spoken, and the admins of mega-forum Reddit have announced the site’s best commenters, comments and communities of 2010. There seems to be bias toward recent phenomena on the bestof2010 winners list, benefitting novelty account “sure_ill_draw_that,” the uplifting “Today You, Tomorrow Me” comment trend, and Urlesque’s current favoritest thing ever, DogFort.
If you have no idea what any of this means, don’t panic! Here’s our rundown of the winners in each category, along with some helpful background about who they are and how they won... -
The dominant models of search and social for discovery seem to point to the need for syndication above the need for subscription to branded channels. The syndication model in turn requires additional focus on relevance. This, together with the new needs for social and design, again points to the need for media companies to refocus their efforts on their core competency; journalism.
This also points to the need for new platforms that allow these media companies to syndicate their content. Proliferation of individual apps or channels is not the new model. Google/Yahoo news isn’t the new model - they’ve been surpassed by Facebook already. Community sites like Digg and Reddit are not even in the running.
The good news for media is that when they embraces the new model, I think they will make far more money than they ever have in the past due to the combination of broader distribution and better targeting leading to larger ad revenues.
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Both of these sites are being replaced by Reddit, a four-year-old news forum with far more educated, better-behaved users than either, but with a culture that somehow rides the middle between Digg’s slavery to the mainstream tastes of America’s teen males and 4chan’s obsession with inscrutable in-jokes and anti-humor.
Reddit got almost 300 million pageviews in July, compared to the 200 million Digg views in July that Digg founder Kevin Rose reported on his blog. So says an infographic posted on Reddit by Alexis Ohanian, one of the site’s founders, who also asks why the media continually call Reddit “tiny” and “dwarfed” by Digg. What’s more, traffic at Reddit, according to their Google Analytics, is up 24% in the last two months.
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Stephen Colbert’s Letter to Reddit | BuzzFeed
Reddit recently reached out to Stephen Colbert asking him to hold a ” Restoring Truthiness ” rally parodying Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. Rather than just create a simple facebook group supporting this cause, however, Reddit asked people to donate money to DonorsChoose.org , hoping to get Colbert’s attention by breaking Hilary Clinton’s record of $29,945. Less than 8 hours later, Redditors obliterated Clinton’s record, have since raised over $100,000 and received this fantastic response from Colbert himself . I almost had a pregnant while reading it.
