Comments on: Kevin Rose: “Digg traffic has grown by over 40% since July” http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/09/kevin-rose-diggs-recommendation-engine-stirred-traffic/ International technology news, business & culture Thu, 24 May 2012 18:28:19 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ryan Riley http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/09/kevin-rose-diggs-recommendation-engine-stirred-traffic/#comment-368342 Ryan Riley Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:18:39 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=5190#comment-368342 I don't see how this could be a good thing. Pretty soon, we'll have a _Fahrenheit 451_ situation on our hands wherein everyone will act and speak the same, and contrary opinions are quickly crushed and excluded. Sure, that sounds extreme, but consider the rapidity with which you "ban" a last.fm song that you don't enjoy in the first few seconds. Over time, this will either backfire or create an assimilated community where the news is shaped to look like the community, and the community will not have real news, just the news that either fits into or is shaped into their own make-believe reality. I don’t see how this could be a good thing. Pretty soon, we’ll have a _Fahrenheit 451_ situation on our hands wherein everyone will act and speak the same, and contrary opinions are quickly crushed and excluded. Sure, that sounds extreme, but consider the rapidity with which you “ban” a last.fm song that you don’t enjoy in the first few seconds.

Over time, this will either backfire or create an assimilated community where the news is shaped to look like the community, and the community will not have real news, just the news that either fits into or is shaped into their own make-believe reality.

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