Aggregating Content by Perspective

Both Robert Scoble and Rex Hammock have interesting and related thoughts up about aggregation services like Google News and Techmeme.

Scoble points out deficiencies in the latter and his preference for the former. Yet, Google News isn't perfect either. Rex notes that two competing news services can have very different perspectives on the same issue - government productivity statistics.

This morning when I pulled up Google News I saw this contrast first hand in the wild. Note the images below. Is the iPhone going to be a success or a failure? Google News aggregates both perspectives. So will Techmeme. What we need next are aggregation services that can break out these perspectives (when there are hard lines). People-powered services like digg may be our only solution here.

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[Ty Graham]

Perspective does not exist without the foundation of aggregation and as we consolidate consumption of content in the market to a single source of data, we may be consolidated as content itself. The results of our collective influence by redefine us entirely, because soon, everyone is going to get blipd!

[Mike Keliher]

I'm not sure why we need these differing views to be "broken out." Why? To encourage the "I only want to read what reinforces what I already think" approach? Or just so we can tally up one side against the other? That sort of investigation is probably most effective when done as needed on a case by case basis, rather than by some "system" -- regardless of whether that system is automated or people-powered.

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You could go to a news site or news search engine or you could just enter "Iraq War" into Google and get their top ... i think at first glance, the one box functionality does reasonably well if the vertical search isn't very complex

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[Dan Schawbel]

Sources like Digg are great because they are unbias, where as google and others are slanted.

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[Ian]

For a good example of a mobile content aggregator, see http://m.wordtube.com.

It's like Techmeme, but more general like Google News. Bottom line it's mobile and these services were made for mobile.

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