I've written before about the BBC's progressive project backstage which is developing a community around feed's provided by the BBC. Something that just came up from the associated mailing list is a site called News Sniffer. It does a number of interesting feed related things perhaps the most interesting thing there is called Watch Your Mouth.
Like a number of media sites, the BBC has a format for providing feedback and comments on articles - a form of social media often referred to as chatback or talkback. Watch Your Mouth monitors these comments and spots when they are editorially removed. It then ranks the news articles by the count of removed comments.
The site looks like fun. The site could be improved by including both the total number of comments as well as the percentage removed alongside the basic count of the number of removed comments.
Note that the BBC's talkback system (at least as I have used it) has always been editorially controlled, though I wasn't aware of this practice of removing already published comments.
News Sniffer also has a neat Revisonista tab which lists news articles that have been revised and republished. It would be great here to track the changes that have been made...
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