Comments on: NowPublic seeks to capitalise on crowd-powered media http://www.reportr.net/2008/09/12/nowpublic-seeks-to-capitalise-on-crowd-powered-media/ This blog on media, society and technology is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:10:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: joshparkthis http://www.reportr.net/2008/09/12/nowpublic-seeks-to-capitalise-on-crowd-powered-media/comment-page-1/#comment-694 joshparkthis Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:50:17 +0000 http://reportr.wordpress.com/?p=875#comment-694 For $10M, you'd think they could make their site look better. I mean yah, NowPublic has some interesting features and this geo-locate idea sounds promising, but how practical? Citizen Journalism is just now starting to carve out it's own niche and hopefully we will get a flagship site soon, I just don't think it will be NowPublic. Allvoices is nice too, and they also are planning something similar to the geo-locate of NP. Another good place is You Scoop It, granted they are new...but look promising as well. Every uploaded report is made to look very professional and the site is visually pleasing. Take a look: www.youscoopit.com Those are my two cents anyway. :) For $10M, you’d think they could make their site look better. I mean yah, NowPublic has some interesting features and this geo-locate idea sounds promising, but how practical?

Citizen Journalism is just now starting to carve out it’s own niche and hopefully we will get a flagship site soon, I just don’t think it will be NowPublic.

Allvoices is nice too, and they also are planning something similar to the geo-locate of NP.

Another good place is You Scoop It, granted they are new…but look promising as well. Every uploaded report is made to look very professional and the site is visually pleasing. Take a look:

http://www.youscoopit.com

Those are my two cents anyway. :)

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