Daily News — moving toward Web 2.0
In today’s 9/15-16 paper Steve McClure has a piece asking for thoughts about online commenting (which has been in place at the DNews for awhile now). This seems to be part of the slow flirtation the DNews is having with becoming a Web 2.0 player (perhaps learning from the New York Times).The DNews now sports a discrete link “RSS” that goes to a page of RSS feeds. They render in Firefox and Safari, but when you try to follow the “more…” link, you need to log in. Which is probably why they don’t work in the Sage plugin to Firefox.
So in reply to Steve’s commentary (you’ll need to log in):
- Make the local content public, remove those logins.
- I agree with Mark Solomon, require an identity to comment, one identity/user
- Allow trackback from blogs as an alternative way to comment.
- Link to stuff in your online editions, and implement ping/trackback so when you link to other blogs, your pieces appear as comments there.
As you pursue this exploration, keep in contact with your News counterparts at WSU who interested in creating “Global WSU” and are beginning to look into “Global Internet Competencies,” like blogging by top administrators as vehicles to keep administration connected to employees and other constituents.