you - now featured on the nytimes
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great news from nytimes today: the online version of nytimes has started featuring comments from readers on the front page!
i really have to hand it to their online team for embracing social media–first by embracing blogs, then with the submission buttons, and now by placing such high value on reader feedback. now if they could only do two more things:
- remove the registration wall: it is just plain annoying for a majority of the users that just want access to the content and no additional features.
- embrace the fill feed: it seems like the nytimes understands social media, but only to an extent. it’s about time they went with full feeds.
though it seems the site is taking steps to display both positive and negative comments, not everyone is happy with the move. david spector, for example, thinks that this is another step towards devaluing the nytimes.
so, suddenly the ny times decides its a good idea to put comments from random readers on its front page… don’t we have a letters to the editor section for stuff like this..?
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October 12th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I thought the registration wall was coming down? At least I could swear I read that somewhere. Full feeds would be nice, but we probably need to give an old media staple a little time to adjust and small steps are still good if they’re in the right direction.