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Google is testing a service called Bulletin that would focus on local news published by the masses:
Google is testing a tool called Bulletin that would allow anyone to publish local news stories and events, according to a report from Slate, which Google later confirmed. The company described Bulletin as a way for others to communicate information of local interest, like bookstore readings, high school sporting events, or information about street closures, for example.
Slate found a website for creating Bulletin posts was already up-and-running, but was still in "early access mode." The service is currently being piloted in Nashville and in Oakland, Calif., the webpage states.
On the site, Google explains that Bulletin is a lightweight app for telling stories, capturing photos and videoclips from your phone, and then publishing them straight to the web – without having to create a blog or build a website yourself.
Meanwhile, Facebook says it will prioritize local news:
In a newsroom post on Monday, Facebook's Alex Hariman, head of news product and Campbell Brown, heads of news partnerships, announced the social platform would begin to prioritize local news outlets in the feeds of its users, emphasizing that local communities benefit and trust the outlets closest to them.
- Facebook and Google Won't Save Local News
- Facebook and Google are trying to dig local news out of the grave they put it in
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says users are spending less time on the social network
- Facebook is untouchable (growth in revenue despite less time spent by users)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @11:17PM (1 child)
First, Bulletin and website in TFS both link to the same page.
C'mon submitter and editor, you can do better than that.
Next, with all chintz blocked, the page posts.google.com/bulletin/share is blank except for a button that says Sign in.
The page wants to load a script.
Letting archive.li run the script (and still blocking chintz), gets the same results. [archive.li]
Trying to go to posts.google.com/bulletin redirects to a Google accounts signup page.
Apparently, you can't even -read- the crap without jumping through hoops.
So, NO.
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About twice a week, I go to Topix for a few cities in the area and see if I've missed anything.
They aggregate articles using a spider.
The noise level is pretty high.
If there's an if-it-bleeds,-it-leads story that mentions the city, a ton of rags across the country will mention it.
In the page for the largest city in Orange County/the county seat, there will be junk that mentions Santa Ana winds or the Santa Ana River (in Riverside County).
The L.A. Times in particular has become a source of extreme levels of noise, with them putting headlines of completely unrelated shit on every goddamned page they put up.
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I'm not expecting these "new" things to be any less horrible than the city-oriented groups were on USENET.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday February 02 2018, @01:23AM
Same as TFA.
Reading the summary would have clued you in that the service is in "early access mode". The kind of access that apparently requires a Google login and being randomly/algorithmically selected to become a tester.
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