Re:Show HN: Grasswire – A collaborative newsroom for the Int...
by gwintrob on Friday April 11, 2014 @08:53PM
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Cool stuff, Austen. Good to see a product that cuts through the noise online. What do you think of inside.com from Jason Calacanis?
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Re:Show HN: Grasswire – A collaborative newsroom for the Int...
by austenallred on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:25PM
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I feel like Inside is mostly a response to summly. Calicanis basically said, "this computer-generated content doesn't work well, I'll do the same thing by paying reporters.
But I feel like that misses the larger point. We're all instantly connected and publishing now, and realistically every single person can act as an editor, fact-checker and reporter; it doesn't make sense that we still use the same model as we did in the 1800s to create news.
Basically, we think we can create a world where news is entirely controlled by everyday people, and not governments or corporations.