Topix.com enlists crowd to help RoboBlogger report local news
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Beginning in April 2007, news aggregator Topix.com has begun enlisting the crowd to edit and report local news, supplementing its automated RoboBlogger technology for sorting news articles from over 50,000 sources.
With funders including Gannett Co., Inc., The McClatchy Company, and the Tribune Company and a management team including the co-founder of the Open Directory Project, this looks like a site to watch. Automated linkage to a large array of news articles, free classified advertisements, and simple tools for editors (citizen journalists, not professional journalists), together with easy means of engagement with site, make this a strong contender in an increasingly competitive landscape of citizen journalist opportunnities.
Home page is http://www.topix.com/
4/3/07
