Found my way to Newsvine via the Time Top Ten website list. Had heard about it before via nettime, I think. Anyway, it's a news 2.0 thing, a mix of collaborative editing, blogging, news feeds, social media, social bookmarking, social networking etc, funded by big names and perhaps something we need to look at in the OJ units. There's a mix of official news and then user generated content (links, recommendations, new content). The latter is in the part of the site called The Vine.
I randomly clicked a bit and found my way to a blog piece about citizen journalism by Dr Rusty Shackleford - it was recommended by Aine McDermott, who has her own little space on the site, recommends stuff, writes a column and hosts groups. Her own site/blog is worth a look. I guess she's paid to 'grow Newsvine' - so she's a professional web editor. Have gratuitously tarted up this post with her sig pic from Newsvine.
***Correction*** That'll teach me to rattle off a post and not check my facts/rely on half-baked assumptions. Have been contacted by Aine, via the comments, who points out that she isn't paid for her work on Newsvine. She's just part of the community of users and the only money she gets from it is 90% of the ad revenue for each page view of her stuff. Sorry for the mistake, Aine
I came across your entry via Technorati, and thank you for the links. That's my avatar above. :)
One correction: I am not a paid professional web editor at Newsvine, although I am flattered that you thought so... maybe they should give me a job, eh? LOL I'm actually part of the community of users there... just an ordinary person. The only pay I get is whatever is generated from the ad revenue on my column's content... just like everyone else who has a column there, we earn 90% of the ad revenue for each page view.
:) - Aine
Posted by: Aine | January 17, 2007 at 22:13