“If it exists, there is porn of it.”

"Jezebel's editor last week announced the site was designating a "Tier 1" level of privileged contributors whose comments are "funniest, thoughtful, intelligent, well-argued" and who have proven themselves "engaged, intelligent, humorous, fair-minded, thoughtful, rational, etc." Their comments will be shown below each blog post. All others, in Tier 2, will be available only if a user clicks to see them. Tier 1 commenters, in addition, will have the right to bump comments from others up or down. Editors, ultimately, will have the final say."

"Die Parteien rufen zum Kampf gegen die Onlinesucht auf. Ihr billiges Motiv: Sie wollen das linke Bildungsbürgertum mit seiner Abscheu vor Technologien und Popkulturen mobilisieren."

Oliver Reichenstein: "It’s no accident the superstars of the current generation of online services build heavily on verifiable identities. I’ve said this many times, and have taken serious beating from anonymous users for it. Here is my final word to you anonymous and pseudonymous 2.0 super heroes: grow up."

"I try to catalogue the yes-but contrariness I hear about the internet’s opportunities–and my responses..."

"A controversial issue such as the debate about the future of Iraq will typically result in a vast quantity of debate material in the media, legislative bodies and academia. Much of this is highly partisan, with selective and often fallacious use of arguments and a tendency to ignore or deprecate anything that might favor contrary viewpoints.(...)
What is lacking is a method for people to easily view and comprehend the debate as a totality, with different positions and arguments clearly juxtaposed in a consistent structure that reflects sound argumentation principles. Debategraph is designed to address this deficiency by allowing protagonists for different viewpoints to collaborate in developing comprehensive statements of debates."

"...an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. "

"Comments are thought to be an added value to a newspaper's site—providing another reason to read. You come for the article, and stay for the interesting discussion. The only problem is, there is no interesting discussion. Almost never."

"....it's going to be difficult, if not impossible, for the newspaper industry to reform its basic production processes to support online community building, so long as the industry sees itself as the "newspaper" industry."

"Mit Neuwahlen ist es nicht getan, das Land braucht Hochschulen, die Berufspolitiker ausbilden, solche, die wissen, dass man vor wichtigen Entscheidungen abzählt und welches Datum wir haben."

"Blews uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres.. it indicates the level of emotional charge in the discussion of the news story or topic at hand in both political camps."

"Was intelligente Aggregation angeht, sollten die Macher von Zoomer sich noch einmal hinsetzen und von Seiten wie Rivva oder Facts2.0 lernen, was heute möglich ist."

"Users will be in charge of deciding what constitutes news, and which submissions should be removed." The community will decide what the news is," CNN News EVP Susan Grant told Mediaweek. "We are not going to discourage or encourage anything.."

"How involved are reporters and editors involved in participation on their web sites? Not much. Until we fix our participation strategy, we will continue to struggle with developing the kind of online community our newspaper communities deserve."

"Das Online-Angebot der „Süddeutschen Zeitung” greift die Idee des verkaufsoffenen Sonntags und taut ausnahmsweise die Kommentarfunktion auf (...) Sprechzeit auf sueddeutsche.de für Idiotae ist sonst ausschließlich werktags zwischen 8 und 19 Uhr."

"Many sites are embracing the concept of “news as a conversation,” and trying to create active conversations among reporters, editors and readers online."

"...ein merkwürdiger Minderwertigkeitskomplex: die Annahme, dass sich fundierte, kluge, wichtige Gedanken nicht mehr durchsetzen gegen all die Beliebigkeiten und Dummheiten, die nun von jedem verbreitet und diskutiert werden können."

"Ein Meilenstein der Deutschen Internethistorie: Zum ersten Mal kann man mit Copy&Paste einen sinnvollen Kommentar abgeben…."

Die SZ knipst abends und am Wochenende das Internet aus.

"Acht Politiker stellten sich auf CNN den Fragen der YouTube-User im Kampf um die Präsidentschaftskandidatur. Funktioniert das, was in Amerika als innovativ umjubelt wird, auch in Deutschland?"

"The Omaha World-Herald was caught completely flat-footed today when a gunman killed eight people in a local mall, producing the worse online coverage in memory by a newspaper with a major story breaking in its own backyard."

"Seit Sommer 2007 sind Artikel auf NZZ Online für Kommentare geöffnet. Mit Einschränkungen: Man kann nicht anonym kommentieren - zwar werden die Mail-Adressen und Namen nicht verifiziert. Aber Eingaben wie «Donald Duck» werden nicht freigeschaltet."

The last thing you should do is outsource community participation. (...) That’s why Media News signing a deal to turn over commenting functions to Topix is just dumb beyond belief."

"Subscribe to Comments 2.1 is a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments."

"Spiegel Online feilt seit einiger Zeit an seinem Image. (...) Zunehmend traut sich die Redaktion auch, sich von der Tagesaktualität abzukoppeln und über den agenturhörigen Tickerjournalismus hinwegzusetzen, um selbst Themen zu setzen..."

Die NYT startet - relativ vorsichtig - Leserkommentare unter Online-Artikeln

"National Nine News online is using Passion Pulse to map the mood of the electorate.
The timeline shows how levels of passion vary from quote to quote. It is a combination of participation rates and the cumulative intensity of each user's reaction."

"Kommentieren Sie Artikel der ZEIT, stellen Sie eigene Beiträge zur Diskussion oder debattieren Sie die wichtigen Themen der Zeit. Ihre ZEIT für Meinungen und Kritik."

"Unlike television debates, the 10Questions Presidential Forum makes full use of the web's potential to expand participation in politics. Everyone has an opportunity to ask a question, and to rally support for their question being in the top ten."

"Many of us measure the value of content and conversation by the volume of comments. But perhaps that is the wrong measure; perhaps we need to measure the quality."

"Our goal is to grow a nationwide community around the issue of election reform. We want to make election reform a subject that our elected officials cannot afford to avoid..."

"Next, I hope we teach the value of the link. It is the key architectural element supporting a new structure of media, the steel beam that enables journalism to build past prior physical limitations, to grow taller, wider, and stronger than before."

"I have narrowly - narrowly - avoided joining Facebook due, in large part, to my face."

Argumente Pro und Contra

"Dem Wahlkampf im Internet fehlt es an Raffinement und Subversion" (Der Artikel bezieht sich auf die Schweiz, das nur nebenbei...)

"Mr. Weinberger responds: You're right. The Web is a problem. It has been from the beginning and it always will be. But your dichotomy is false. The Web isn't Cinderella facing Gregor "The Cockroach" Samsa in a deathmatch."