High tech viewers vs. troll reviewers: Who will win?
Locally, we refer to people who review books without reading them as noviewers. Mostly, they want to encourage others to follow their example and not read the book either. The usual low-tech technique for spotting noviewers in the review stream is that they engage with the text only via canned talking points at best. They show little interest in the ideas as such. But how to prove that? From Dave Lee at BBC we learn, So imagine my delight today when, via the excellent Nieman Lab, I read about Norwegian broadcaster NRK. The tech section of its site, NRKBeta, is trying a simple experiment. You can’t leave a comment unless you’ve read the story. How will they know? There’s a test! Read More ›