Make News: Newser Announces New User News Initiative --
NEWSER
BY USERS
NEW YORK & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Newser (www.newser.com)
takes the next step in online news aggregation. NEWSER BY USERS
gives readers the tools to find, summarize, and post stories that
reflect their diverse interests, provide in-depth coverage of the
topics
they?re most passionate about, or simply highlight those
serendipitous
and overlooked stories that have not come to the attention of
Newser?s
editors.
?We expect this to be informative, captivating,
infuriating, and, no
doubt, sometimes disturbing and inexplicable?in other words, very
much
like the news itself?
Along with Newser?s curated grid, the home page now offers a
second grid
that is wholly created by user contributions. This will be an
entirely
open, free-to-all, absolutely democratic, and largely unmediated
front
page.
Our hope and belief is that this will surface a wealth of stories
that
otherwise might not make it through more professional news
filters. Our
commitment is to trust, enjoy, and nurture, the interests,
passions, and
eccentricities of our readers and contributors in a way that no
news
organization has ever quite done before.
The luxury of the Internet is that the world does not have to be
all
professional, nor does it have to be all homemade. The Newser page
that
millions of users have come to depend upon for their daily news
will
remain unchanged. But now, just below that view of the world, is a
window into what our most passionate users want the world to know
about.
?We expect this to be informative, captivating, infuriating, and,
no
doubt, sometimes disturbing and inexplicable?in other words, very
much
like the news itself,? says Newser?s founder, Michael Wolff.
During Newser?s two years of building an advanced system of
machine and
human aggregation that measures and provides what users believe
they
need to know along with what they?ve shown they want to know, we
have
been helped, as well as frequently confounded, by many of our
users?
individual points of view.
Our readers regularly demonstrate a bias, enthusiasm, dedication,
and
sensibility that is not so easily accommodated by an algorithm or
by
editorial guidelines. So why not, we finally concluded, just let
it rip.
We?ve created a set of easy-to-use publishing tools that let users
write
a headline; explain, extol, summarize, or excoriate, a news story;
and
search for and match a picture for it from our photo database.
Voila!
The user grid is open to anyone: Newser users, bloggers, other
news
organizations, the passionate, the pedantic, the righteous, and
the
profane.
We?re ready. Are you?
About Newser, LLC
Newser, LLC (www.newser.com)
is an online news aggregator that scours thousands of news sources
for
the best stories and opinion pieces and summarizes them in a
smart,
efficient and entertaining graphic format.