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Interesting Perspective from unmediated

March 31st, 2006 You Mon Tsang

Launching off the comments on the Slashdot story on Boxxet, Michael from unmediated believes the Boxxet represents a threat of lazy, value-less re-purposing of content (my words). I agree with the threat, but Boxxet does not represent that threat.

The difference is that Boxxet DOES NOT allow anyone to come in and create a “web site” upon which that person can post ads. What Boxxet does is try to create a single best-of site for a particular subject (say the San Francisco Giants). The information that we aggregate will be vetted by the community and the traffic will sent away from us to the place where the content originated. At the end of the day, we hope that Boxxet and our users do real good by finding/filtering and vetting great content for our users.
But Michael has some good thoughts on the general subject.

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