{"id":214,"date":"2007-01-16T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2007-01-16T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T17:40:00","slug":"anti-social-media-or-meet-the-new-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/01\/anti-social-media-or-meet-the-new-editors\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Anti Social Media’ or ‘Meet the new editors’"},"content":{"rendered":"

B<\/span>ookmark this post? Go on. You know you want to. Please. I’m begging you. OK, how about a few quid?<\/p>\n

The rise of social media, and bookmarking services like del.ic.ious<\/span>, Digg<\/span>, Newsvine<\/span> and the rest is part of the anonymous camaradery of the web. We share something we like with strangers. How digitally public-spirited of us…<\/p>\n

But there’s a snake in the grass. Columbia student Dave Cohn<\/span> (Digidave), reveals the rise of a new editorial process<\/a> via Digg<\/span>:<\/p>\n

The top one hundred contributors \u2014 determined by their success in placing their submissions on the front page \u2014 are responsible for more than half the content that fills the front page each day. This group has been playing the part of a collective editor, and offers have poured in to pay popular Digg contributors for their \u201cservices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of these offers have been made out in the open, like Netscape\u2019s offer to pay some of the top Diggers $1,000 a month to become permanent fixtures on Netscape\u2019s Digg-like home page. Today, almost half of Netscape\u2019s sixteen \u201cNavigators\u201d \u2014 paid social bookmakers \u2014 were originally top contributors to Digg. But other offers have been made in secret, according to Johnson, and he isn\u2019t the only one being given the chance to Digg for cash. \u201cOne site offered me $100 for every submission that I got onto the front page of Digg,\u201d says Derek Van Vliet, or BloodJunkie, who is ranked sixth on Digg and who was among those Diggers who took Netscape\u2019s offer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So is this subversive and disgusting or successful and the future of editing? Love to know what people think…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bookmark this post? Go on. You know you want to. Please. I’m begging you. OK, how about a few quid? The rise of social media, and bookmarking services like del.ic.ious, Digg, Newsvine and the rest is part of the anonymous camaradery of the web. We share something we like with strangers. How digitally public-spirited of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}