Re: Aggregating and displaying feeds

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Jeff Barr <jeff@vertexdev.com> wrote:

> Many bulk news consumers (the "news junkies") use news to get
> an edge over their competition -- they can be better informed, and thus
> make a better banking or investment decision if they have more news,
> faster. These people are not very likely to want to democratize the
> process by drawing more attention to their sources. They will all want
> to benefits from the "clicks" of others and yet would prefer to opt out.
> One solution is to allow only those who vote to see the results.

This is a neat idea, but what would likely end up happening is that they
will use software that sends in fake click data just to get the results
back. Rather than there just being a lack of data, this makes things even
worse: incorrect data.

Of course, if you just build it into Headline Viewer by default, I don't
think anyone will notice. ;-)

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