Comments on: Sir Elton John: "we must close the net" http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/ Technology news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jonathan http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/comment-page-1/#comment-22073 Jonathan Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:41:29 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/#comment-22073 Or we just have different definitions of news, it seems both of you fail to realize this was supposed to be slightly humorous... I guess not. I'd remind you, we were not the only site to report on this so I guess all the others are just as lame and pointless as well. Or we just have different definitions of news, it seems both of you fail to realize this was supposed to be slightly humorous… I guess not.

I’d remind you, we were not the only site to report on this so I guess all the others are just as lame and pointless as well.

]]> By: Fred http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/comment-page-1/#comment-22069 Fred Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:42:56 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/#comment-22069 Jon boy, you're missing KellyC's point. Your "articles" aren't journalism, even in Web 2.0. Just because you have a source with real information and decide to write about it, that doesn't make it journalism, anymore than someone writing a letter to their mom about what they heard about on TV. Just the fact that you make it public over a web site does not mean that what you are writing is news. Fortunately, KellyC, there is already a rating system in place that is managing the flow of information for "articles" like these, I've alluded to it in other recent posts which I won't bother to link to here, simply because the base "articles" are equally as bad as this one. Unfortunately for blorge, the rating mechanism is not one controlled on this board. The rating system is the spam filters out there on the 'net. Most of my recent blorge newsletters, including this one, I've had to pull out of the spam bin, despite filters I have in place marking it as news and trying to preserve it. So apparently enough other people out there have been marking it as spam/junk that the decision on blorge content has already been made. I think the next time I see Blorge in my spam box, I'll just leave it there. See KellyC, sometimes the best thing to do with a turd is simply to flush. Jon boy, you’re missing KellyC’s point. Your “articles” aren’t journalism, even in Web 2.0. Just because you have a source with real information and decide to write about it, that doesn’t make it journalism, anymore than someone writing a letter to their mom about what they heard about on TV. Just the fact that you make it public over a web site does not mean that what you are writing is news. Fortunately, KellyC, there is already a rating system in place that is managing the flow of information for “articles” like these, I’ve alluded to it in other recent posts which I won’t bother to link to here, simply because the base “articles” are equally as bad as this one. Unfortunately for blorge, the rating mechanism is not one controlled on this board. The rating system is the spam filters out there on the ‘net. Most of my recent blorge newsletters, including this one, I’ve had to pull out of the spam bin, despite filters I have in place marking it as news and trying to preserve it. So apparently enough other people out there have been marking it as spam/junk that the decision on blorge content has already been made. I think the next time I see Blorge in my spam box, I’ll just leave it there. See KellyC, sometimes the best thing to do with a turd is simply to flush.

]]> By: Staff reporters http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/comment-page-1/#comment-21758 Staff reporters Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:07:16 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/#comment-21758 Hi KellyC... article ratings you say... Hi KellyC… article ratings you say…

]]> By: Jonathan http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/comment-page-1/#comment-21730 Jonathan Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:51:59 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/#comment-21730 There's a source, the information in the article is conveyed in this post and the information is real. Just because you already knew it, doesn't mean others didn't and Elton John commenting on the matter is slightly humorous to me. If you could elaborate on your definition of "journalistic standards" I'd like to hear it. We don't have article ratings because the code is not ready to be deployed, that's the truth, of course, I don't expect you to believe me. There’s a source, the information in the article is conveyed in this post and the information is real. Just because you already knew it, doesn’t mean others didn’t and Elton John commenting on the matter is slightly humorous to me.

If you could elaborate on your definition of “journalistic standards” I’d like to hear it.

We don’t have article ratings because the code is not ready to be deployed, that’s the truth, of course, I don’t expect you to believe me.

]]> By: KellyC http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/comment-page-1/#comment-21719 KellyC Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:20:17 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/08/02/sir-elton-john-we-must-close-the-net/#comment-21719 This article did not meet journalistic standards or in any way represent any real information that we didn't already know. Why don't you have article ratings on here? Afraid of the backlash? This article did not meet journalistic standards or in any way represent any real information that we didn’t already know. Why don’t you have article ratings on here? Afraid of the backlash?

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