Embracing the chaos of their new ‘open forums,’ Gawker now features a tip-sharing box that gives commenters the ability to post directly to the site using a hashtag-based system.
Read more...October 22, 2009
August 11, 2009
NY Mag Commenters Get Hired for HSBC’s Soapbox Campaign
We’ve written previously about the reverse trend of internet memes inspiring honest-to-goodness books, but it appears that the web’s influence on real life as reflected in popular media knows no bounds following news that five of New York Magazine’s most prolific commenters have made the unprecedented leap from peanut gallery to professional.
The five vocal contributors will be lending their unique perspectives to a series of chatroom-style ads for British bank HSBC. The campaign is tied to the bank’s “Soapbox” television and print ads, which feature conversations on hot button topics such as education, the economy and the environment. For the online component [...]
December 19, 2008
Comments Are A Privilege Not A Right
There’s something in a statement on Engadget’s site that serves as a reminder of the delicate dance new media sites have with their readers and commenters (those two groups not always being the same in our opinion). After the gadget site stopped allowing comments to appear on a certain blog post they reminded everyone of their position that comments are a privilege not a right:
You may have noticed that comments on the recent Storm post have been turned off. If you’re wondering why that’s the case, it’s because a handful of folks posting on that story are being rude, disrespectful, [...]
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