Comments on: Got a #tip? Gawker Media opens tag pages to masses, expecting “chaos”

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By: More growth for Gawker comments, and more power to elite commenters » Nieman Journalism Lab

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:04:52 +0000

[...] of cases. (See Deadspin’s #iwasthere tag page, or Gawker’s #tips page.) I love the concept of comment tag pages — treating the comment as an independent unit of content, opening up new avenues for involved [...]

By: Bloggasm » The transparent news tip

Bloggasm » The transparent news tip — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:46:22 +0000

[...] Lab reports that Gawker has created a tip line that can be viewed by all. In a sense, this is a mashup of [...]

By: Cody Brown - A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:06:51 +0000

[...] have been hybrids, CNN’s iReport, HuffPo’s Off the Bus, and recently Gawker’s new way of sharing tips, but the editor, in each of these situations, still takes incredible control. Despite ample [...]

By: Around the web: e-books, images of Saturn, tennis in Asia, the science of shaving, and more | Newley Purnell

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:27:15 +0000

[...] Got a #tip? Gawker Media opens tag pages to masses, expecting “chaos” [Nieman Journalism Lab] Gawker Media is unveiling an innovative and unruly twist on traditional reader forums this morning. The new feature, part of an otherwise modest redesign across the company’s nine blogs, could transform tag pages, typically little more than archives of old posts, into commenter free-for-alls and transparent tip lines. [...]

By: Yawn.

Yawn. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:50:04 +0000

Agree w/ 4. Although “snark journalism” is an oxymoron (does “b#tchy-aside journalism” or “rumor journalism” sound right to anyone?). And Denton’s no journalist.

Say this much for the guy: at least he doesn’t pussyfoot around trying to “bit by little bit lower standards where they are important.” No coaxing along flash over substance a tiny bit, this one. Just cuts straight to chaos and floodgates. You’ve gotta hand it to him.

What, exactly, he ought to be handed… who can say. Probably not phrases like “pure theory of news” or “the next Joseph Pulitzer,” though.

What a shocker, btw, the ‘dark’ facebook concept. This from the kid who reportedly hacked into Harvard servers, copied student photos without permission, and set up a site for visitors to vote on his unconsenting classmates’ attractiveness.

(“Perhaps Harvard will squelch it for legal reasons without realizing its value as a venture… But one thing is certain, and it’s that I’m a jerk for making this site. Oh well. Someone had to do it” http://www.02138mag.com/magazine/article/1724.html)

By: Honesty1

Honesty1 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:14:26 +0000

How badly can you be played by Denton, desperate to build his own lame version of Twitter? Grow up, Zack.

By: S C Smith

S C Smith — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:36:59 +0000

“Dark journalism?” More like snark journalism. Oh wait, so that wouldn’t be innovative at all, would it?

By: Nieman Journalism Lab: Gawker stirs up online commenting with new #tips tags | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:02:44 +0000

[...] Full story at this link… [...]

By: Zachary M. Seward

Zachary M. Seward — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:05:18 +0000

New York Herald: Yeah, exactly! I wouldn’t be surprised if this spawns #m4m forums, etc. Putting that alongside #veryseriousnews is radical and yet already commonplace on sites like The Huffington Post, which covers politics and nude celebrities in the same breath. I think we can all make qualitative judgments about what kind of news we prefer, but it’s harder to view an entire news site as one entity anymore. Instead, it’s: There are the freaks, here’s the good stuff, these are the YouTube videos. Roam around wherever you like. (In Gawker’s case, the homepage may serve as the “safe space” for those less inclined to wander.)

And, Ian, thanks for the input from a user. (I’m not much of a Gawker Media commenter myself.) I do think there’s a tension between instituting a “class system” in the comments and expecting “chaos” with this new thing. Denton explains how he thinks they square when he says, “We needed the class system in place before we opened the floodgates.” But as always, users will determine if that’s valid. —Zach

By: Ian Duncan

Ian Duncan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:51:23 +0000

The chaos aspect seems a bit limited – or at least on Kotaku – by the fact that comments don’t go into the main timeline but get shunted to the side. Maybe I was too naive in expecting a killer free for all where everything just gets lumped in together.

By: New York Herald

New York Herald — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:32:40 +0000

“..pure theory of news” sounds more and more like the etched panels of a bathroom stall.