Newsvine wants to be your news portal
Over at the Online Journalism Review (published by USC Annenberg), Sandeep Junnarkar has an interview with Calvin Tang, the co-founder of social-news site Newsvine, which launched in March:
There were the three major things that we are going after. First, our aim was to set out to automate the collection, organization, and syndication of the exponentially growing pool of content available on the Web. With the rise of the blogosphere and personal publishing, it seems that there is becoming an ever-increasing amount of content out there.
The second thing we set out to do was to leverage the base of people in the world who had a story to tell but who also lacked an easy way to use publishing platforms and get an audience. Not everybody in the world is tech-savvy enough to set up his or her own blog. That’s why the first wave of citizen-generated content out there was very tech-heavy.
Our third aim was to give people a way to interact with each other in meaningful ways on topics of shared interest and to also be able to discover new material and authors as a result of this interaction.
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(On Nov 29th, 2006 at 12:06 pm)
Newsvine also pays you, FYI. One guy got $414 in ONE month!