2007-08-09

Annotated Google News (Reblog)

Google has introduced a somewhat cumbersome mechanism by which those directly involved in news stories can comment on them with Google News. Ars Technica has a concise discussion. Here's a somewhat poor sample.

Personally, I'm really excited about this. As I'm sure everyone has noticed, whenever you have more than a passing acquaintance with the subject matter of a news story, it tends to packed to the gills with misinformation. This might be a more accessible method of correcting errors in news stories -- in addition to inevitably being a new platform for mindless punditry.

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