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Apr 2 2007

Topix Becomes a Socially Editable Online NewsPaper

Bilal Hameed 

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Topix.net which changed the the face of online journalism is doing it yet again with the relaunch of their service under the newly acquired domain name of Topix.com. This time they are targeting social journalism through the release of a new product that will allow readers to write, edit and share local news articles directly on Topix.com.

The news was broken by USA Today whose parent company Gannett McClatchy partly owns Topix together with Tribune. Topix covers local news already, which at the moment is auto generated. But this will going to change once and for all and from tonight Topix will become a socially edited online news paper. Topix allows users to comment on stories and its from these comments that the initial editors will be selected. It wont be long, when we will begin to see other goodies like localized news RSS, tagging, News from friends and so on.

I am strongly confident that this is a killer blow to the already dwindling Media empires. I just covered a story about Google joining in the bid to acquire DoubleClick. That story was originally broken by WSJ, but I didnt linked to WSJ, instead a linked to alarmclock. The reason was simple, WSJ´s story resides behind the walled garden of paid subscriptions, which all of my readers might not have.

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  1. ttt Says:

    what does a Asian zombie look like

    eyes closed and mouth flapping

    asking do you understand the words coming out of my mouth

    I tried to be polite but this site is garbage cause if you try to explain something that is not already known and established they flame you until you leave somebody had em boiling yesterday and now the Chicago tribune removed their logo banners and name from the site mmm but I am still testing the waters but so far they are to hot cause of all the candles waiting to ignite on any thing combustible they need to move ahead to the 21 first century and turn on the lights or stay off the internet and back in 14oos

    http://www.theledlight.com/

  2. ttt Says:

    I was able to bring em around to the 21st century

    I had to say some things that could not be said on cable television to get em to listen but it looks like this small group most likely was the worst group there to help me clean up the place all and all it looks like it might turn out to be a good blog but you have to give it some time right now it is no worse any other blogging community

  3. ttt Says:

    while I did change the minds of a few their a lot of people who have their foot in their mouth and head up their ass

    anybody knows what a zombie looks like it is created by censordhip

    it is a beast with many heads eyes closed ears plugged mouths asking every one do you understand the words coming out of mouth

    this problem comes partly from the moderators they moderate to create controversy they will allow about the size of ones Private parts and subsequent requests for sexual favors and comments about bush singling one us solder out for murder and deleting more meaningful comments cause they go against their view I could fix this place but I need the help of the moderators they would rather have controversy than any comments outside of their political view

  4. ttt Says:

    yes toppix has a big impact on the news but not the kind I would like to see we have people blogging twisting the storrys into battles that ignore the facts

    we have a bloger who calls him self adolf talking about our solders in Iraq as if the president ordered them killed

    we have people talking about the size of their manhood and subsequent requests for sexual favors

    this is not news this is trash now will the tribune step in and clean this mess up as they own 75 percent of topix they should or trash it for the sake of free speech and call it loss on their taxes

    yes they got a raw deal here no debate on that but what do they plan to do next

    http://blog.topix.com/pdf/press_2005_03_23.pdf

  5. ttt Says:

    my current standing with toppix is 1 good 4 bad threads the one good thread was marginal as the it got into some insulting and even strait out sexist but the bloggers seem to understand it is a matter of opinion and facts and statics are what we base our opinions on I will make my final decision based on my experience on at least 10 threads maybe 20 if I have the time and the PATIENCE

    to the corporate I see alot more good posts and less flames so I can not say for sure if you are doing something different but I think you are and if so thank you

    if I just ran into a bad group on my first few threads adding to that was the fact my first thread focused on a highly controversial but important topic if this is the case I apologize I am posting things as I see em I do not want to give anybody an undeserved bad rap but I will not praise a bad environment as if it was heavenly so to that end I will cuntinue to give my honest and unbaised oppion

    the forth blogg had your normal round about flames nothing more the ohers had exteamly vile actavity in them If I do not see any more of this vie activety I will toss the frist 3 and form an oppion and a total of 10 or more blogs that would count number 4 as thread as number 1

  6. ttt Says:

    thread number 2 was OK the worst thing I read in there was similar to thread number 4/1 but not quite as bad and I think they will get back on track I’ll confirm this on my next post

    it would appear if you do not stray far from the norm you are less likely to get insulting idiotic comments but on some threads this is unavoidable as they will they will start as soon as you have nice things to say about Obama and we should be able to float any idea as long as it is not criminal and is backed up with some facts

    this is a place to talk about what ever is on our minds

    but in all fairness I will keep things close to norm as I do not believe our society is ready to hear some things my luck would have been no better on any other blog most likely

    my next few blogs will be non political and by partisan let me take a 2 day break so that with a clear mind I will continue to give you all my honest and unbiased opinion

  7. ttt Says:

    i will wait until the electionis over and the new pressident is in office and settled in before posting any more comments about the atmosphere of this blogging community as the it is to well charged politically and I can not get a clear reed on peoples true line of thought but it does not look great but terrible in a perfect world we would not need any moderators but we do not live in a perfect world so I must be judging you on the effectiveness of your moderators

  8. ttt Says:

    typo correction

    but it does not look great but terrible in a perfect world

    but it does not look great but mot terrible in a perfect world

    to the moderator could you correct my last post and delete this one

  9. billl Says:

    Just think how great this planet would be if Hitler had Topix! BTW Hilal, you look like a Jew.

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