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Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

Paul Montgomery — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:50:47 -0000

Debbie and Michael, you'll be happy to know I added NowPublic. Good luck with it, it looks great.

Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

Pete Cashmore — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:15:46 -0000

Chris,

I think I answered your comments over on Om's blog - suffice to say, I wasn't really aiming to create a comprehensive list, just pointing people over to the list Paul had made (although actually I think he was inspired by a list from someone else). Still, I appreciate everyone pointing out other services.

I should probably add that I already use Wikinews and NowPublic, so I am definitely aware of them. Obviously I'm a Slashdot reader like everyone else.

Debbie,

Sorry - I should have replied to your email quicker. Doing that now.

Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

Karl Prigge — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:38:08 -0000

I assumed that the "recommended" feature on Google News was a response to the "recommended" section that reddit has used for months now. It's my favourite reddit feature and as far as I know, was unique to reddit (until now).

Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

Michael Tippett — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:31:36 -0000

Paul missed NowPublic:

You missed NowPublic. Here are the specs:

Ad revenue y
Algorithm y
API n
Blog content y
Bookmarking y
Citizen J'lism y
Comments y
E-C revenue y
Localisation y
MSM content y
OPML n
Personalisation y
Ratings y
Recommending y
Reputation y
Rev. sharing n
RSS/ATOM y
Tagging y
Taxonomy y
U-G content y
VC funded y
Visual content y
Voting y
Widget y

Best,

Michael
NowPublic.com

Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

Debbie Landa — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:09:55 -0000

This is a great list but you are missing a fairly large player in this space....NowPublic - these guys have over 3M unique's a month...i'd say they're getting some traction. Peter, i sent you an invite about the conference we are prodcucing called Under the Radar - you'll be able to see some of these guys live and in person here in silicon valley on March 2. In fact, here is a profile we did on NowPublic so you can get the scoop....http://undertheradarblog.com/2006/...

Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

Chris Edwards — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:39:53 -0000

Just curious, but why no Wikinews? There is precious little original reporting in most of the stuff there, but more work goes into doing something with the source material on Wikinews than, say, Digg, Memeorandum or many of the other 'News 2.0' sites you cite.

And Slashdot? Why would that not qualify? Was it born too early?

Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

theCreator — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:28:58 -0000

Omigod. The MSN Newsbot is hideous.

Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

David G — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:43:42 -0000

not - but that's between us (and ur 10,000 readers, right?) - hit me up on skype sometime

Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

Pete Cashmore — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:03:56 -0000

David,

No problem - anytime. :)

So are you saying you're going to include MSM content or not? By the way, my project is slowly veering away from this space and into new territory, so there's probably not much crossover in what we're doing now. Anyway, Umair has been saying some interesting (though increasingly cryptic) stuff lately, so it would be cool to have a chat sometime about peer production and what you think it all means. Feel free to ping me.

Re: The Emergence of News 2.0

David G — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:59:33 -0000

oi - thanks for ruining my day ;-)

seriously though, the one "feature" that I think will split this list into 2 camps is 2nd on the list .... "MSM content" ....