mercurynews.com — The two sites "are completely different,'' said Dan Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media and a NewsTrust advisor. While Digg strictly measures popularity, NewsTrust asks users to rate a story on the basis of 10 factors, including accuracy, balance, context and evidence. "It's adding judgment about quality,'' Gillmor said.
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strictneinDec 28, 2006
"launched the beta version of NewsTrust.net last month after turning 50 and deciding it was time to give something back to society"F'en gag me with a spoon. That makes me want to hit somebody. What a worthless article
x3nosDec 28, 2006
Not only that, but the site is still trying to load in another tab right now. beta.newstrust.net == POS if you ask me. Can't handle the bandwidth . . .
Closed AccountDec 28, 2006
Its funny to see idiots who have been banned from digg.com like Daniel Eran and his stupid little blog, are beginning to spam newstrust with exactly the same blogspamming content!The worst problem with NT is the way your browser gets resized when you want to comment or rate a submission! Till they get that s**t fixed its NEVER going to gan any following worth mentioning.Also, its just too damn cluttered. Visually, Digg VS NT is like comparing google (clean, simple, fast)( to yahoo or MSN (cluttered, messy, too much irrelevant crap).Its amazing that the ppl who create sites like these don't understand that mess is not best!
Closed AccountDec 28, 2006
The article's second sentence is "One hoped to make boat-loads of money. The other dreamed of enriching American democracy by identifying trusted news sources hidden in the deluge of information available online". I'm presuming the former is referring to Kevin. Although I don't know if leaving your day job to start a news site qualifies you for wanting "boat-loads of money".
dewiniaethDec 28, 2006
I've never heard of NewsTrust. One of the benefits of Digg is the simplicity. It's simple enough to Digg an article and enough people participate to make it a really valuable resource, and I love reading stuff here, but even I haven't dugg much... and this is my first comment. Of course, judging articles solely on popularity has its drawbacks, but I really love the trend of allowing users to leave comments on articles. That leaves it simple but gives people the opportunity to contribute more. And it's so democratic! If an article is potentially fraudulent, I trust that others will let us know, through their comments. And, of course, if it's something that really interests me, I figure out how trustworthy the source is, and if I can find the same claim repeated in other trustworthy sources.
kyoung989Dec 28, 2006
Yikes! Newstrust definitely needs to work on its layout.
fitchmicahDec 28, 2006
this news trust site is sort of cool but more people need to review articles from fox news, because fox news is definitely NOT neutral and somewhat imbalanced as well... their use of quotes is aggravating and arrogant.
phaedDec 28, 2006
better yet give us a percentage: ::: 5% of diggers found this article inaccurate. :::this way we don't have to do the math in our heads to compare two different stories with different amount of viewers like u have to in NT.