Yeah - wouldn't it be interesting if the Google news style grouping of all articles on a topic also had a single threaded discussion about the topic as well? (complete with upvotes or +1's of exceptional comments and analysis from the user base).
I think one of the issues we'd have to contend with is the tremendous drive that the publishers have to generate new column inches. They really want to squeeze out just one more pageview (or competing web pages who each want their first pageview).
There will be a lot of incentive to figure out how to not be tagged in the "new grouping" sort of system.
If you head on over to reddit, they've got a great visual description of the "duplicate news" issue http://i.imgur.com/WANc1.jpg I think it's kindof relevant to this discussion.
I think one of the issues we'd have to contend with is the tremendous drive that the publishers have to generate new column inches. They really want to squeeze out just one more pageview (or competing web pages who each want their first pageview).
There will be a lot of incentive to figure out how to not be tagged in the "new grouping" sort of system.
If you head on over to reddit, they've got a great visual description of the "duplicate news" issue http://i.imgur.com/WANc1.jpg I think it's kindof relevant to this discussion.