Comments on: How Reddit Controls the Internet News Cycle http://www.geekosystem.com/how-reddit-controls-the-internet-news-cycle/ Let Yr Geek Flag Fly Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: Lauren Orsini http://www.geekosystem.com/how-reddit-controls-the-internet-news-cycle/#comment-980 Lauren Orsini Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:26:36 +0000 http://www.geekosystem.com/?p=19719#comment-980 I had to comment after observing that my mistake as an intern at Kotaku has become an Internet cautionary tale. I actually found my material for that story from my friends on Twitter and Deviant Art... guess I should have followed it back to the source. If I had known it was a 4chan meme, I would have known better than to touch it. As somebody who has seen the insides of how a "geek stronghold" blog finds its news, I have to say that actually it's Digg that plays a bigger role in where Kotaku finds news. In the chatroom where the editors meet, there's a Digg bot named Monster that updates with the highlights from the video game category. Kotaku also gets a lot of reader tips, and to their credit, does a lot of original work and research. I started checking Geekosystem daily during my internship at Kotaku to try to stay informed with the geek world. I love your site! I had to comment after observing that my mistake as an intern at Kotaku has become an Internet cautionary tale. I actually found my material for that story from my friends on Twitter and Deviant Art… guess I should have followed it back to the source. If I had known it was a 4chan meme, I would have known better than to touch it.

As somebody who has seen the insides of how a “geek stronghold” blog finds its news, I have to say that actually it’s Digg that plays a bigger role in where Kotaku finds news. In the chatroom where the editors meet, there’s a Digg bot named Monster that updates with the highlights from the video game category. Kotaku also gets a lot of reader tips, and to their credit, does a lot of original work and research.

I started checking Geekosystem daily during my internship at Kotaku to try to stay informed with the geek world. I love your site!

]]> By: Magister http://www.geekosystem.com/how-reddit-controls-the-internet-news-cycle/#comment-928 Magister Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:21:48 +0000 http://www.geekosystem.com/?p=19719#comment-928 Of course one of the most annoying problems with the major blogs mining Reddit or Google Trends for material is that most days, there's a lot of content overlap between sites. Sure, something may have been great when it moved up Reddit or first appears on Digg and you might even read a couple of blog posts, if it's super-special, but by the time you've seen five or six repackages of the same material, it's like letting Headline News run all day. Of course one of the most annoying problems with the major blogs mining Reddit or Google Trends for material is that most days, there’s a lot of content overlap between sites. Sure, something may have been great when it moved up Reddit or first appears on Digg and you might even read a couple of blog posts, if it’s super-special, but by the time you’ve seen five or six repackages of the same material, it’s like letting Headline News run all day.

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