Thursday, September 27, 2007
Shoud the mdia link to their own sites from stories like Digg?
When Kevin Rose launched Digg on December 5th, 2004, I don’t think he had any idea how much of an impact the site would create. Sites like Digg, del.icio.us and whois.sc come into the online system to keep the web surfers informed. The complaints about this are that users may have control over the content which causes misinformation, and may not give the appearance of a “genuine” news site. However, technology is growing in vast amounts in this generation. Hours upon hours, people log onto the web and some stay on. New media is the new trend, and with that is the potential prosperity of media companies linking to and with as many sites as possible that can generate feedback and encourage audience participation. Not only does this excite the readers who can share comments to stories, but it also lets the company know immediate audience analysis on who is reading the story and why. Also, news stories, linking to sites like Digg, are more exposed to other surfers who may not necessarily click on media company sites for news, but probably have places like Digg attached to their favorites. Scrolling down and scanning the news stories on sites like Digg inspire more clicks to the story and exposing more viewers to read. Attaching more news to more sites stimulates more minds to learn about the world tp possibly add more positive changes to it.
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