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Gawker founder Nick Denton is still trying to reinvent reader comments — and it’s working — Tech News and Analysis
gigaom.com
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"the new feature ... gives both Gawker authors and readers the ability to filter comments based on the writers and commenters they follow, or whose content they have “liked” or given a star to. So readers can click on Denton’s name and see not only the posts he has written, but also a specific selection of comments that he has chosen to show, from…

02/10/2013
Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments | Popular Science
www.popsci.com

"But even a fractious minority wields enough power to skew a reader's perception of a story, recent research suggests. In one study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Dominique Brossard, 1,183 Americans read a fake blog post on nanotechnology and revealed in survey questions how they felt about the subject (are they wary of the benef…

The Case For Banning Internet Commenters - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com
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" Popular Science has officially shut off its comment section, pointing to research showing that disagreeable comments hurt the reading experience. Or, at least, the reading comprehension. One study out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that mean comments under an article about nanotechnology "polarized readers," taking attention away f…

25/09/2013
Nieman: Gawker lets readers rewrite headlines & reframe articles
www.niemanlab.org

"a new kind of reblogging functionality so that readers can top the articles they share with their own headlines and introductions.... “Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers. And at some point the distinction should become meaningless."

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