I’m expecting chaos, but as the front pages of our sites become ever more professional, it’s even more important to allow anarchy to bubble up from below. The goal is to blur the line between our editors and commenter-contributors. News and discussion have been so segregated on the web. You think of the 1990s era discussion forum software. Really hasn’t changed. Maybe we should think of journalists as the instigators and moderators of discussion. News follows from discussion as much as discussion follows from news. Successful sites — and useful publishing software platforms — will bring the two together so they can feed off each other.
Nick Denton, Got a #tip? Gawker opens tag pages to masses. (via soupsoup) (via wearethedigitalkids)
that 2nd to last sentence is the most important one to understand.
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