Others have already tried this, quite successfully. Kuro5in and Slashdot have been doing this sort of thing for some time. Kuro5in has a more reader-centred, one may perhaps say "democratic" approach, and has a more general-interest coverage than Slashdot's "news for geeks" focus. OhmyNews, which takes stories from "citizen reporters", is a force to reckon with in South Korea and is said to have helped decide the outcome of a presidential election.
Tapas > Newmark said his news project will involve Web technology to let > readers decide which news stories are the most important. At least one > Web site is already working this field. Digg.com invites readers to > submit stories to be posted on its Web site. "Once a story receives > enough (votes) from (the site's visitors) it will be promoted to the > front page," the site explains. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
