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In 2008 I wrote an article on the ethics of aggregation and ran lively commenting groups to discuss it on Social Median and FriendFeed.
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Neither of those sites exist anymore. What happens when the news outsources its commenting to platforms and those platforms shut down?
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Discourse is lost forever. Don't think Twitter will be around forever. And if comments had no value, why do Twitter/FB want them?
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Facebook & Twitter are billion $ conversation platforms. When publications shut off comments it's another failure to understand own biz.
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eBay, Facebook, Cars(dot)com, Craigslist. There all were newspaper functions once. They weren't stolen from the media, we gave them up.