Re:The Elite Newspaper of the Future
by brandnewlow on Sunday October 05, 2008 @09:25PM
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Thanks. I'm very aware of Newsvine. Gotta respect what's come before!
My issue with Newsvine, and sites like Newser, Google news and all of the pure Digg-clones, etc is that they're run by hackers, not news people. And no matter what the founders say, they all have the same business model, to make money by commoditizing expensive stuff (journalism) that someone else paid for (newspapers).
The idea with my startup http://www.windycitizen.com (we did 50,000 uniques last week...and now apache crashes every 2 hours :( ) is to bring NEW stuff to the web. I want to fill holes in the internet. 3-4 times a week we publish exclusive original stuff. Last week we scooped the Chicago media so badly that the Tribune ran a copycat version of the story the next day. That was fun. I've never heard of Newsvine breaking a big story.
So yeah, Newsvine's great, but I want to get something going that will support original journalism of the type described in the original link.
My issue with Newsvine, and sites like Newser, Google news and all of the pure Digg-clones, etc is that they're run by hackers, not news people. And no matter what the founders say, they all have the same business model, to make money by commoditizing expensive stuff (journalism) that someone else paid for (newspapers).
The idea with my startup http://www.windycitizen.com (we did 50,000 uniques last week...and now apache crashes every 2 hours :( ) is to bring NEW stuff to the web. I want to fill holes in the internet. 3-4 times a week we publish exclusive original stuff. Last week we scooped the Chicago media so badly that the Tribune ran a copycat version of the story the next day. That was fun. I've never heard of Newsvine breaking a big story.
So yeah, Newsvine's great, but I want to get something going that will support original journalism of the type described in the original link.
Getting it going is rough, of course. I'm bootstrapping based on advice from a few entrepreneurs. I've got an application into the Knight News Challenge, which you can read here: http://garage.newschallenge.org/projects/1-crowd-powered-fro...