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Influencing the news for money? Seeding the "Newsvine"
Cyberjournalist.net ^ | 1/31/2006 | Cyberjournalist.net / Xcoastie

Posted on 01/31/2006 12:45:00 PM PST by Xcoastie

Newsvine.com, a new type of news site created by four former Disney/ABCNEWs.com employees, is now up and running in beta.

CyberJournalist.net has been invited to join the beta and is impressed with what it's seen so far.

The site is a slick combination of some of the trendiest news-related tools online now, incorporating news aggregation, social networking, citizen journalism, blogging, user ratings and online discussions. Think of it as one-part Slashdot, one-part del.icio.us and one-part Google News, with a few other neat features thrown in.

The site is built around four general actions: reading, discussing, writing and seeding the news.

The site posts thousands of Associated Press articles that users can read.

Among the things readers can do with stories or links: vote for it, to raise it up the Newsvine (i.e. give it better promotion on the home page); participate in a live chat with other users about the story; leave comments; report inappropriate content.

Users can write their own articles, and get to keep most of the ad revenue from those pages. You'll collect 90% of the earnings from your own domain (yourname.newsvine.com). The other 10% goes to the person who referred you to start writing on Newsvine.

Users also get their own page or "column" -- basically a blog-like page that lists all of a users' posts -- with the nice URL of yourname.newsvine.com.

And users can "seed" the site with links and comments about interesting articles they've found on the Web.

(Excerpt) Read more at cyberjournalist.net ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: ap; blog; comments; discussions; journalists; news; newsvine; post; read; revenue; seed; socialnetworking; updates; vine; web; write
While Newsvine is no FreeRepublic it does open the door to some very unique concepts in News commentary, voting, and getting paid for being a pseudo-journalist.

Xcoastie still has a few invites left to the beta testing of Newsvine for anyone interested please contact me at xcoastguard@yahoo.com

1 posted on 01/31/2006 12:45:07 PM PST by Xcoastie
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To: Xcoastie
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2 posted on 01/31/2006 3:17:26 PM PST by Xcoastie (If you think education is expensive, try ignorance)
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To: Xcoastie

Welcome to those who have signed up to take a look... please post here to let others know what you think!

I hope we can develop a strong conservative presence by expanding awareness of the wonderful FreeRepublic we so enjoy!


3 posted on 01/31/2006 7:25:27 PM PST by Xcoastie (If you think education is expensive, try ignorance)
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