Gregory Lamb in today’s Christian Science Monitor: What is today’s top story online? Click here to decide. Websites apply ‘social networking’ to the news, letting users prioritize what’s important. Excerpt:
“I think people will flock to sites like Digg to supplement their traditional news diets,” writes JD Lasica, cofounder and head of Ourmedia.org, in an e-mail. Ourmedia lets visitors post and share their original videos, photos, artwork, and writing.
“Digg started on a shoestring a year and a half ago, and it’s astonishing how popular it’s become in such a short time,” writes Mr. Lasica, a former editor at the Sacramento Bee who now writes about online media. “Like most big ideas, it starts with a ‘duh’ realization – that users want to be part of the editorial process, and that readers want to see news stories from a wide range of sources.” It’s all about bringing the audience into the conversation, he notes. “Like it or not, most people just want to read a story and don’t really care which news organization first reported it.” …
We’ve just begun looking into how we can implement audience rankings and ratings on Ourmedia in a way that elevates quality works rather than the schlock.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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