Comments on: Rebooting the News #40 http://rebootnews.com/2010/02/08/rebooting-the-news-40/ A weekly podcast on news and technology with Jay Rosen and Dave Winer. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dave Winer http://rebootnews.com/2010/02/08/rebooting-the-news-40/#comment-443 Dave Winer Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:35:29 +0000 http://rebootnews.com/?p=299#comment-443 Must-watch puppet show with "Walt Mossberg" and "Steve Jobs" illustrates through comedy how an owned media behaves. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4pPAn-m5g&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Must-watch puppet show with “Walt Mossberg” and “Steve Jobs” illustrates through comedy how an owned media behaves.

]]> By: @udeme http://rebootnews.com/2010/02/08/rebooting-the-news-40/#comment-442 @udeme Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:55:15 +0000 http://rebootnews.com/?p=299#comment-442 From all indications, Twitter (as a news hub) will get killed. Twitter is merely a glimpse of the distribution model soon to come. For several reasons (which Dave has been blogging about for a bit now, and I happen to agree with him on this), not least Twitter's sluggishness to refine features, introduce metadata, ..and get rid of url-shorteners, to name a few. Nor is it likely that the new(s) model will come from Google, as their size has had them playing catch up for a while now (social search, nexus one, wave), so besides the occassional spurts of brilliance, we can safely assume they've lost their edge. The components of the future news platform, are being formed today, and my take is that it will have 3 major components; a twitteresque platform (that includes topic tags / robust metadata system), an open foursquare-ish location based platform(s), and a reliable identity verification system (Scoble often refers to this as an "identity war"). The "ranking" of articles (and reputations of the "reporters") will rise or fall base on the quality of news, ideas, or entertainmet they put out. Think TechCruch, HuffPo, Mashable but with an open blog-roll, a global preseance/reach, a google-y search alogorithm that incorporates topic tags, reporter ranking, location etc From all indications, Twitter (as a news hub) will get killed. Twitter is merely a glimpse of the distribution model soon to come. For several reasons (which Dave has been blogging about for a bit now, and I happen to agree with him on this), not least Twitter’s sluggishness to refine features, introduce metadata, ..and get rid of url-shorteners, to name a few.

Nor is it likely that the new(s) model will come from Google, as their size has had them playing catch up for a while now (social search, nexus one, wave), so besides the occassional spurts of brilliance, we can safely assume they’ve lost their edge.

The components of the future news platform, are being formed today, and my take is that it will have 3 major components; a twitteresque platform (that includes topic tags / robust metadata system), an open foursquare-ish location based platform(s), and a reliable identity verification system (Scoble often refers to this as an “identity war”). The “ranking” of articles (and reputations of the “reporters”) will rise or fall base on the quality of news, ideas, or entertainmet they put out.

Think TechCruch, HuffPo, Mashable but with an open blog-roll, a global preseance/reach, a google-y search alogorithm that incorporates topic tags, reporter ranking, location etc

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