User-news sites offer diverse stories, some questionable sources

San Francisco Chronicle by Joe Garofoli | Sep. 12, 2007 (News Report)

During a week this summer when the mainstream press focused on the immigration debate in Congress and a failed terrorism plot in the United Kingdom, the most popular stories on news sites where the users rank their favorites, like San Francisco's Digg, was - aside from chatter about Apple's new iPhone - not dominated by any one news story.
And that's part of their allure. The 24-hour news cycle doesn't exist on rapidly growing user-news sites like ... Full Story »

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by Patricia L'Herrou - Oct. 1, 2008

this is easier to read than the original from which it comes (which is also in stories to be reviewed). there is an on-going question hinted at, with quotes from both sides of an answer, as to whether or not the two types of sources will co-exist or the new will edge out the old. and its corollary in my mind, how much difference would either answer make?