News Corp buys IGN for $650M

Falconrath writes "News Corp has just aquired the gaming network IGN for $650 million Thursday. News Corp leader Rupert Murdoch said that this aquisition was one of many in order to become a "leading and profitable Internet presence." " Also here is a games section story from this morning.

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So you know it is a dupe...

[Anm]

but you post it again just to identify it as another section? This is why I don't like limited categorization system and why heirarchical ontologies/taxonomies are either full of exceptions like this, or of limited use.

I have the same problem with Mambo's/Joomla's section & category mentality (effectively equivalent to slashdot's sections and topics). What is so hard about allowing a content item to exist in multiple sections?

And I'm not talking about open ended tagging systems like Flickr or del.icio.us. Defining a consistent category set not only constrains the author's or editor's choice (which should ideally be easier), but also provides a gaurantee to the viewers and feed aggrogators that tangental categories won't arise after any prefernce selection.

But back to slashdot... What exactly is the point of the topics? I can only adjust my front page filter by section, so it seems the only thing I can do with topics is search by them.

Anm

Re:Odd Dupe

[WilliamSChips]

Zangelding section?