Kevin Rose of Digg said this at Web 2.0, ""We have 600,000 registered editors bringing content to the site." Really..they are editors?
The article above did turn me on to the Digg labs tools stacker and swarmer - pretty cool info display but it makes the contributors more like clickers than thoughtful stewards and cullers.
The first three definitions of editor appearing on define:editor via Google
- a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)
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- editor program: (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data
Editor has four major senses: # a person who obtains or improves material for a publication;# a film editor, a person responsible for the flow of a motion picture or television program from scene to scene# a sound editor, a person responsible for the flow and choice of music, voice, and other sound material in a recording# a computer program that is used by humans to efficiently make changes to files of a particular type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor
An editor is a software tool. This category includes HTML editors, text editors, source code editors, and graphics editors. More complex text-producing tools with WYSIWYG interfaces are generally referred to as word processors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_(software)
An editor is usually a program to create or modify text files. There are various graphical and text mode editors available on Linux. Examples of graphical editors are: nedit, gedit, kedit, xemacs, gxedit. Examples of text mode editors are: joe, ae, emacs, vim, vi. In a terminal, simply run them via: $ editorname filenam www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/glossary
