The London freesheets and the web – Part 3: Voting – currybetdotnet – 24 September, 2007
The next part of Martin Belam’s series on participatory aspects of London’s freesheets.
Voting’s a funny one. A lot of people seem to be mad for the web voting as a way of getting users to interact with websites, but most of them seem utterly fatuous. In the London paper there is a vote to decide which of a selection of 2 articles is boring and which is interesting – or More or Bore? It’s not much of a choice really, is it? What if both articles were boring? Seems an easy way for the paper give readers the impression they’re influencing editorial decisions when really the most important decision is in choosing which two articles to put up for the vote.