It turns out for all the democratization of the web, a mob mentality of sorts still exists. An MIT study shows that early positive recommendations for articles lead to more likes… Read more »
Quartz, the business site that is part of Atlantic Media, is giving readers the ability to add “annotations” to specific parts of a story in an attempt to reinvent the way… Read more »
The New York Times has started experimenting with a system that highlights comments from readers alongside the story they are responding to, part of an increasing trend towards making the audience… Read more »
With the rollout of new blogging and rewriting features for readers who use its Kinja platform, Denton and Gawker Media continue to blur the line between their writers and editors and… Read more »
One of Reddit’s most controversial forums, /r/atheism, is in an uproar after moderators chose to begin enforcing rules. The result is an intensely entertaining war over Reddit’s own behavior. Read more »
There is a tiny revolution brewing, one that may cause a reshaping of one of the most common of social metaphors: the humble comment. Starting back in the mists of time,… Read more »
Comment trolls are often used as an example of why blog comments are a waste of time, but a recent series by the Climate Desk showed how they can quickly be… Read more »
Many publishers treat obnoxious comments as a problem to be solved — Above the Law takes the opposite approach, and embraces readers as they are. Read more »
The new weekend editor at Gawker’s auto-focused Jalopnik blog got hired because he was a knowledgeable commenter on the site, an example of how the feedback loop between writers and readers… Read more »