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January 5, 2007

NewsTrust: A Social Networking News Review

Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal (who awarded us first place for Search News Blog of 2006) outlines how NewsTrust plans to use a social networking approach to promote online journalism.

The method will be a little more structured than Digg or the other social networking systems that are used at the moment.

They plan to use a 10 category system, according to Search Engine Journal:
* trust
* fairness
* importance
* recommendations
* balance
* context
* evidence
* information
* sources
* style

This should be one to watch in the coming year. It is always interesting to watch different verticals employ methods that have proven successful for others.

Posted by Frank Watson at January 5, 2007 2:33 PM