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Seeding the Cloud: So with newcopia as it stands, it potentially connects parliament house\'s output with the people. Those with accounts and the will to comment anyway.

So now we have to connect the old and new media to parliament house\'s output. Since the MSM is precious about its data, through TOS or no rss feed - we will probably need to screen scrape the appropriate outlet/story. It could be posted as a \"scraped\" comment (as opposed to a normal or editorial comment). A word better than scraped would be better though.

As to the new media, blogs have trackbacks, but that doesnt help media like crikey, which is email based. Maybe it will need to be scraped some other way. No link back to it either. Which would suck. It is an information dead end then.

Trackbacks do collected too much spam, maybe a user (logged in) can make a \'trackback\' comment to their blog. It would be a manual process. It would also mean there wouldnt necessarily have to be a link in the originating article to the newcopia story.

Alternatively we could require that sites join up to a trackback list, that will be the first filter (and bannination if anyone starts posting poker/casino spam)

Since the trackbacks are a comment, people can comment directly off of it, if they so wish. Same with scraped comments from the MSM, that can be commented under directly as well.

Any other ideas?

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